Ashoka

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.