Role:
Ashoka is looking for a dynamic changemaker to take charge in transforming Ashoka's Youth Years programming.
What You'll Do:Ashoka is looking for an exceptional changemaker to join its Global Leadership Team to lead this change from our Global Office
- Spearhead a Global Movement: Increase the number of young people, parents, educators, partners, and citizens that identify as changemakers so that "Changemaking" becomes the new norm.
- Unleash Systems-Level Insights: Design and lead systems to extract and scale compelling insights from Ashoka Fellow innovations
- Drive Resource Generation: Pioneer new revenue models, raise vital resources, and garner strategic support to make "Every Young Person Practicing Changemaking" the new societal normal.
- Build a Team of Teams: Work closely with Ashoka's Leadership, 6 regional leaders (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, and MENA), and senior stakeholders to integrate each region by weaving together Ashoka Fellows, business entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and strategic partners.
- Strategic Partnerships: Search out, nurture, and solidify partnerships with funders, corporations, foundations, unions, educators, and other entities.
What You Bring:Given that this role is in Ashoka's Leadership Group and involves international influencing and impact, the right candidate will have the skills and 15-20 years of related experience to effectively execute deliverables. They will have already:
- Identified a shared problem and created an innovative solution with system- or sector-wide impact.
- Founded their own social impact organization to scale their innovation, advanced a mission/cause through an innovation that has since changed a sector or system, or launched a movement driven in part by innovative approaches with measurable systemic impact; this work may have started as early as one's student years.
- Created partnerships with key actors to advance an innovation and its social impact.
- Elevated the profile of an organization, cause or mission.
- Supported the building of a systemic change movement and needs across teams to advance a mission through fundraising efforts. Or, raised substantial funding to support their own organization and mission.
The right candidate also
- Has an ability to adapt and thrive in an entrepreneurial, fluid, team of teams environment in which needs, strategy and short- / long-term goals may change to adapt to shifts in the ecosystem or social impact landscape.
- Demonstrated ability in fundraising and resource generation, major client/partner relationship management, resource mobilization, and balanced budget management.
- Has an ability to balance creative strategy design with day-to-day execution based on current needs.
- Is skilled at leading and managing a team that has autonomy and independence to further cultivate Ashoka's emphasis on creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Understands and exhibits empathy, teamwork, leadership and changemaking in their lived experience and has the ability to enable or share these capacities with others.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, ideas, and exceptional communication skills.
Core Criteria- Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
- Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately 'get' this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
- Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
- Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
- Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.
$145,000 - $150,000 a year
The US-based Leadership Group Member base salary range is $145,000 - $150,000 (based on relevant experience, skills, and qualifications), plus an annual 10% on base for performance, as well as a full range of benefits. In addition, for extraordinary institutional contributions, Ashoka may provide an award of $33,000 that vests over three years.
The position is based in the global Ashoka office in Arlington, Virginia, USA. For more information, visit us at https://www.ashoka.org/getinvolved/team.
