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: Friday, April 10, 2026, 11:59 GMT.
Start date: As soon as possible
Contract duration: Permanent
Remuneration: Senior Leadership pay range - as per the country in which it is based.
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 community-level fisheries management and conservation. We bring partners together in networks to advocate for reform and share tools and best practices to support fishing communities across the globe.
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.
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
