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.

• Accountable for ensuring Blue Ventures’ global community training content is strategic, technically excellent and ready to scale.
• Support partners and communities to deliver high-impact, rights-based marine conservation and small-scale fisheries outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership for BV’s digital learning platform and broader training offer.
• Lead 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.
• Ensure content is evidence-informed, grounded in lived community experience, and aligned with organisational standards (including safeguarding and DEI).
• Line-manage a multidisciplinary team of subject-matter experts.
• Drive quality assurance.
• Ensure that learning products are coherent, engaging, and practically usable in real-world delivery contexts.

• Technical leadership
• Curriculum development
• Quality assurance
• Team management
• Digital learning platforms
• Marine conservation knowledge
• Small-scale fisheries knowledge
• Evidence-informed content development
• DEI principles
• Safeguarding principles

• BA/BSc/HND