Location: Bali or Jakarta, Indonesia

Closing date of applications: August 31, 2025

Contract status: National, full-time

Start date: As soon as possible

Contract duration: Permanent

Remuneration: IDR 485,003,837-IDR 597,685,600 gross per annum

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 and restore ocean life. 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 worldwide.

Summary job description

We are currently recruiting for a Head of Government Relations - Asia-Pacific to lead our fisheries governance activities in the region, starting with a strong focus on Indonesia. With experience in the sub-region, the post holder will provide broad support to Blue Ventures' actions to promote effective, safe and efficient management of our presence in Indonesia, Timor Leste, the Philippines and Thailand. Reporting to the Regional Director, this is a full-time position based at Blue Ventures in Indonesia (remotely in Jakarta), with occasional travel to work closely with partners and Blue Ventures staff team.

Blue Ventures’ public affairs strategy is to build coalitions of aligned organisations to jointly confront globally pervasive threats to coastal fishing communities and promote specific changes in priorities, policies and legislation in global and regional agreements and national commitments to protect the coastal zone and prioritise the rights of communities who depend on healthy coastal ecosystems.

The Global Government Relations Team works at a national, regional and global level to identify aligned organisations and coordinate these interests to bring a collective vision and narrative to specific campaigns, tackling systemic policy barriers that undermine the achievement of Blue Ventures’ mission of prioritising communities in the protection and management of coastal waters. The strategy focuses on three critical issues:

1. Defending coastal communities and small-scale fishers’ rights to access, use and manage traditional fishing grounds

2. Securing food sovereignty and security through exclusive access rights for traditional fishing communities to nearshore seas and limiting industrial destructive fishing practices, including bottom trawling

3. Improving fisheries governance through transparent and inclusive decision-making.

The successful candidate will be a motivated, proactive and highly organised individual, with an excellent knowledge of government work and network.

You will demonstrate a proven track record of representation at the highest levels, developing strategic partnerships for public affairs and policy changes. Ideally, you will have experience of small-scale fisheries, community-based conservation and development initiatives in the region.

We are looking for an individual who is open to new ideas and embraces innovation and who can demonstrate experience building effective working partnerships for conservation and/or development. Applications will be assessed based on candidates’ alignment with BV’s core values and mission to support human rights-based approaches to marine conservation and fisheries management.

You will thrive in environments that are collegiate and ambitious, and be able to demonstrate experience of working independently and solving complex problems in challenging situations.

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