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By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Maritime
Description:
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. Our story started over a decade ago, surveying coral reefs in the Mozambique channel. Vezo communities in southern Madagascar were concerned about the decline of their fisheries, so we supported one village to experiment with closing off a small section of their octopus gleaning area for a few months, to see whether this might boost productivity. When the closure was re-opened, communities experienced a huge increase in octopus landings and fisher incomes. As news of this remarkable fishery boom spread, neighbouring communities started copying this approach. Crucially, this sparked interest in more ambitious coastal management efforts, leading to the creation of the country’s first Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) governed by a small network of fishing villages. Since then, this temporary fishery closure model has gone viral along thousands of kilometres of Madagascar’s coastline, spawning a grassroots marine conservation revolution with 64 more LMMAs established to date. Today, 11% of the island’s seabed is managed by communities, for communities. Our work is about much more than octopus. These experiences have guided our journey searching for new approaches to demonstrate that marine conservation can be in everyone’s interest, and that taking less from our ocean can give us much much more.
Job Description
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.
Salary: Not specified
Otherpay: Benefits
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
