Jobs 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.

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Summary job description

• The Chief External Affairs Officer (CEAO) is a pivotal Executive Leadership Team role, accountable for ensuring Blue Ventures has the visibility, authority, influence, relationships and resources needed to deliver impact at scale for coastal communities and ocean conservation.
• As part of BV’s distributed leadership model, the CEAO provides expert executive leadership with clear decision rights and accountability, serving as the organisation’s senior architect and champion of external influence.
• The role will enable the driving of our ambitious thought leadership, profile-raising and influence agenda that strengthens BV’s standing as a leading, values-led voice in community-centred marine conservation, ensuring BV is consistently present, compelling and credible in the places and conversations that shape funding, policy, practice and public narratives—translating BV’s evidence and partner-led model into narrative leadership that advances systems change.
• The CEAO provides executive leadership for BV’s external engagement portfolio—ensuring we are maximinising the strategic work in the fundraising and strategic communications teams to amplify BV’s organisational profile with donors, media and sector influencers through authentic storytelling —while remaining accountable for performance across fundraising and communications and enabling (rather than leading) day-to-day delivery through strong leadership of, and partnership with, the Director of Development and Director of Communications.
• As a persuasive, highly credible spokesperson, the CEAO represents BV at the highest levels, engaging scientists and practitioners as well as philanthropy leaders, policymakers and journalists, tailoring messages across audiences and platforms, and proactively identifying, securing, and leading high-profile speaking opportunities (for example, at Our Ocean, Skoll, and New York Climate Week).
• Alongside other senior leaders, the role holder will also step in as needed as a featured speaker, panellist, or convenor to build strategic alliances, influence sector narratives, attract mission-aligned investment, and strengthen BV’s contribution to systemic change in marine conservation.
• Working closely with Impact, Programme and Advocacy leadership, the CEAO ensures external positioning, partnership-building and resource mobilisation align with programme priorities, community needs, BV values, and safeguarding/ethical standards—while protecting and enhancing BV’s reputation and legitimacy as a trusted partner to coastal communities.

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Summary job description

• The Director of Partnerships is a pivotal senior leadership role accountable for building, stewarding and scaling Blue Ventures’ global partner network — ensuring BV can deliver impact at scale with and through partners as a core element pillar of its strategy to 2030.
• The Director leads the Partner Network function, responsible for the end-to-end partner journey: scoping and selection, relationship-building, needs and capacity assessments, multi-year partnership agreements, and ongoing stewardship and support.
• The role ensures BV has a consistent, efficient and values-led model for how it supports partner organisations—combining funding, technical assistance and organisational strengthening to catalyse and sustain community-based fisheries management and locally managed marine areas. Central to this is a commitment to networks and movement-building: enabling lateral learning, peer exchange, and a global community of practice that centres coastal communities and amplifies partner voices.

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Summary job description

• The Director of Community Learning is a pivotal senior leadership role accountable for ensuring Blue Ventures’ global community training content is strategic, technically excellent and ready to scale—supporting partners and communities to deliver high-impact, rights-based marine conservation and small-scale fisheries outcomes.
• Working closely with the Training and Learning team and collaborating across regional and country programmes, the Director provides technical leadership for BV’s digital learning platform and broader training offer. The role leads the development and stewardship of technical frameworks, guidance and curricula across BV’s programme pillars—Community-Based Fisheries Management, Secure Rights, Food Security, and Financial Inclusion—ensuring content is evidence-informed, grounded in lived community experience, and aligned with organisational standards (including safeguarding and DEI).
• The Director line-manages a multidisciplinary team of subject-matter experts, drives quality assurance, and ensures that learning products are coherent, engaging, and practically usable in real-world delivery contexts. This is a replacement.