Location Remote/working from home (in the future, possibly hybrid - 3 days per week in the office if BV has a hub location in the region), with significant national and international travel.
Closing date for applications: April 10, 2026, at 11:59 P.M BST
Start date: As Soon As Possible
Contract duration: Permanent
Remuneration: Executive Leadership Pay Range
Blue Ventures is a marine conservation organisation that puts people first. We support coastal fishers in remote and rural communities to rebuild fisheries, restore ocean life, and build lasting pathways to prosperity. Our work began two decades ago in Madagascar’s remote coastal communities and is growing globally. Across a dozen countries, we’re partnering with traditional fishers and community organisations to design, scale, strengthen, and sustain fisheries management and conservation at the community level. We bring partners together in networks to advocate for reform and share tools and best practices to support fishing communities across the globe.
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
We believe the power to restore our oceans lives in the coastal communities bearing witness to the planetary crises.
Our vision is a future where coastal life thrives in and out of the water. A future where communities have the agency and resources needed to protect their livelihoods, culture and biodiversity for generations to come.
We provide funding, data tools, training, and advocacy support to amplify community-powered change and shift national policies from exclusion to agency.
Through initiatives like Transform Bottom Trawling (transformbottomtrawling.org) and our growing network of 400 civil society organisations, we're catalysing a global movement.
Marine conservation | Community-led solutions | Fisheries management | Ocean stewardship | Coastal resilience
