Summary job description

• 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.

• Building, stewarding and scaling Blue Ventures’ global partner network.
• Leading 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.
• Ensuring 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.
• Enabling lateral learning, peer exchange, and a global community of practice that centres coastal communities and amplifies partner voices.

• BA/BSc/HND