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About Blue Ventures
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities
Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in w... read moreays that benefit coastal people.
Our story started over a decade ago, surveying coral reefs in the Mozambique channel. Vezo communities in southern Madagascar were concerned about the decline of their fisheries, so we supported one village to experiment with closing off a small section of their octopus gleaning area for a few months, to see whether this might boost productivity.
When the closure was re-opened, communities experienced a huge increase in octopus landings and fisher incomes. As news of this remarkable fishery boom spread, neighbouring communities started copying this approach. Crucially, this sparked interest in more ambitious coastal management efforts, leading to the creation of the country’s first Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) governed by a small network of fishing villages.
Since then, this temporary fishery closure model has gone viral along thousands of kilometres of Madagascar’s coastline, spawning a grassroots marine conservation revolution with 64 more LMMAs established to date. Today, 11% of the island’s seabed is managed by communities, for communities.
Our work is about much more than octopus. These experiences have guided our journey searching for new approaches to demonstrate that marine conservation can be in everyone’s interest, and that taking less from our ocean can give us much much more.
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities
Blue Ventures is a marine conservation organization that puts people first. We support coastal fishers in remote and rural communities to rebu
Responsibilities
Content creation and gathering (60%)
Working closely with colleagues, you will coordinate, draft original content and focus on producing stories written, video, audio and pho
We are currently recruiting a Software Developer (R Shiny) to support our evolving operations, supporting our Global Data Science team. Reporting to the Head of Data Engineering, this is a full-tim
Summary job description
Our Partner Network team is responsible for the scoping, selection, relationship building, and ongoing stewardship of civil society and non-governmental organisations tha
Responsibilities
Programme management and coordination:
Manage the administration of the coalition’s dedicated grants mechanism, ensuring timely completion of all finance and programme m
Responsibilities and details of work
Conduct a comprehensive review of all organisational capacity-building initiatives implemented at Blue Ventures to date for partner organisations to identify
Senior Leadership
To act and behave according to the SLT Terms of Reference and BV’s Leadership Competencies
Actively contribute to consultations, including helping to define and establi
Responsibilities
Provide strategic oversight and guidance on digital transformation initiatives, including core platform transformation across ERP and CRM capabilities.
Offer assurance that BV
Responsibilities
Trustees are responsible at board and sub-committee level to provide strategic oversight and ensure we meet our charitable objectives.
Assess proposals submitted to the progra
Specific Objectives
Needs analysis: Outline the specific policy and thematic issues identified by coastal communities and partner organisations in Kenya and Tanzania.
Sector and stakeholder an
Summary job description
We seek an experienced Director of Development to drive Blue Ventures' fundraising efforts, secure resources, and support our ambitious Thriving Fishers Thrivin
We are seeking a Development and Grants Manager to support our funding applications and reporting for Blue Ventures’ global and cross-cutting programmes. This is an exciting opportunity
Summary job description
We are currently recruiting an experienced and innovative Spatial Data Developer to strengthen our evolving operations supporting our Spatial Data team. They will work close
Responsibilities
Provide oversight and leadership for the development and delivery of technical support, guidance, training and mentoring to partners and Blue Ventures’ practitioners focus
Leadership and management:
Create a positive, engaging, creative, and thriving environment for staff, effectively leading through the creation of a shared vision for Blue Ventures in the countri
Leadership and management:
Create a positive, engaging, creative, and thriving environment for staff, effectively leading through the creation of a shared vision for Blue Ventures in the countri
Key Responsibilities
Administrative Support: Provide comprehensive administrative assistance to the CEO and, as needed, to ELT members, including managing schedules, coordinating meetings, and p
Summary job description
Blue Ventures is seeking a Social Media Manager to lead our social media communications' strategy, delivery, and measurement globally. You’ll be responsible for ma
