Ashoka
Global Mutual Help Security Leader
Arlington, VA
Sponsorship not specified$145k-$150kDetected 457 days ago
LeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- Ashoka's vision is of a future where everyone has the lifelong power to contribute to a rapidly changing world.
- If everyone is a changemaker and contributor, humanity's new solutions can keep pace with the new problems, and a more equitable future can be achieved.
- Ashoka's Integrity Team aims to help Ashoka balance entrepreneurial risk-taking and operational risk management in pursuit of its Everyone a Changemaker vision.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a purpose team as a field catalyst for Mutual Help Security, disaster response, and protection of social entrepreneurs and changemakers worldwide.
- Create a working model/concept that turns risks to changemaking into opportunities in cooperation among social entrepreneurs/changemakers, as well as cooperation with leaders in security, human rights, think tanks, and intergovernmental and corporate actors.
- Build a global community of strategic partners for the field, securing multiyear private funding and resource partners.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in entrepreneurial and operational leadership in complex, high-risk and politically volatile environments
- Track record of highly successful creative entrepreneurship, with a history of generating new ideas and executing them to system-changing impact
- Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
- About Ashoka: Ashoka is the world's largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago.
- Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
- Strong fundraising experience especially with private foundations, family funds, and corporations
- Exceptional communication skills with proven ability to lead through influence and ideas
- Demonstrated ability to manage deliverables in a fast-paced, unstructured environment
- Strong problem solving, conceptual, and organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability in innovative revenue & resource generation, major client/partner relationship management, resource mobilization, and balanced budget management.
- Openness and flexibility to think across fields and geographies
- Strong "weaving" skills to be able to bring different parts (teams, resources) together for common purpose
- Strong networks in the fields of security, legal and human rights
- 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.
Skills
- Exceptionally strong ethical behavior.
- Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills.
- Trustworthy.
Compensation
- $145k-$150k
Benefits
- We are a passionate, entrepreneurial team across more than 100 countries working together to achieve this vision.
- Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level.
Company info
- 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.
- Lead a global team and core components of the program.
This listing is sourced directly from Ashoka's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.