Chief Delivery Officer at Blue Ventures

Summary job description

• The Chief Delivery Officer (CDO) is a pivotal Executive Leadership Team role accountable for delivering the impact of BV’s fisheries and marine conservation programme at scale—with a particular focus on implementation through frontline partners.
• As part of BV’s distributed leadership model, this role provides expert executive leadership with clear decision rights and accountability.
• The CDO leads and enables BV’s regional and country leadership to consistently deliver high-quality programming, rapid partner onboarding, effective capacity strengthening, strong portfolio performance, and reliable execution against BV’s scale ambitions.
• This role ensures that BV’s delivery model is operationally excellent, measurable, safe, and replicable across contexts—while protecting BV’s values and “communities first” approach.
• In BV’s regionalised model, Regional Directors own operational delivery in their regions; the CDO sets delivery governance, enables execution, resolves cross-regional constraints, and ensures consistent standards, risk management, and performance

Knowledge and Experience

• Uphold and promote Blue Ventures’ human rights-based approach to conservation and safeguarding commitments for the communities we serve.
• Strengthen systems that prevent exploitation and abuse and reinforce the Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies.
• Foster a positive work environment free from harassment and bullying, grounded in equity, fairness, inclusiveness and respect for diversity.
• Demonstrated success scaling through partner-led models (not only direct implementation
• Highly skilled communicator across cultures and audiences.
• Education: Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g., international development, natural resource management, environmental studies, social science,
• public policy, operations/management).
• Language skills: fluent English; additional languages beneficial.