Job Description
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
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities
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.
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
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