Ashoka - Executive Office Catalyst
Ashoka - Executive Office Catalyst
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11-04-2025
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11-04-2025
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Position at Ashoka
Your Impact:Your leadership will help us identify new opportunities to accelerate our growth as you bring together crosscutting teams to help us creatively achieve our goals. You will work closely with Ashokas leadership on highpriority projects and bring clarity and direction for our staff and network. You will truly be at the heart of Ashokas vision strategy and people allowing you to provide key perspectives for major decisionmaking.
The Opportunity:We imagine these priorities as core parts of this role and we invite whoever takes on this opportunity to help evolve this role by leveraging their unique skills and bringing their new ideas to life.
- Build and strengthen core critical relationships ensure our CEO and other Leadership Team Members (comprising a fourperson leadership team) engages with our most strategic partners and opportunities. You will partner with Leadership to also engage directly with anyone from top journalists to major donors and will be able to represent Ashoka at various engagements.
- Provide general leadership when new opportunities emerge or programs need interim support you will take leadership to rapidly organize resources to address any gaps. This leadership will help us always move forward even in times of transition.
- Provide leadership to Ashokas Executive Office set strategic direction provide team management and oversee the search and selection of key roles.
- Manage weekly Executive Team meetings develop engaging agendas that address top priorities and spark collective conversation and problemsolving. Help everyone learn and deepen their understanding of our everevolving strategy.
- Oversee Board meetings partner with our Global Leadership and Ashokas Board to execute generative biannual gatherings that bring aha moments to Ashoka helping us all better see the whole and bringing new focus to necessary areas.
This role will require inoffice presence in our Global Headquarters located in Arlington VA (off Rosslyn metro stop).
The Candidate:
We imagine a strong candidate for this role as having the following characteristics and experience:
- Experience in entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial and operational leadership in complex global environments
- Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives with organizationwide impact
- Proven ability to lead through empathic discernment management and exceptional communication skills
- Demonstrated skills in managing operations deliverables and performance in a fluid open and agile environment
- A canny ability to get teams aligned speaking the same language and helping each other to succeed
- Social sector experience
Equally as importantly candidates must also meet Ashokas core hiring criteria that is core to all of our roles:
- Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship: Demonstrates a track record of taking initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company starting a movement reshaping the work of an existing organization) bringing new ideas to life and building a team to achieve meaningful impact.If this track record may not be clear from your CV please share this narrative in any supplemental materials.
- Understanding and Belief in the Vision of an Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. Has a broad and inquisitive intellect and 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. Understands how individual groups and societies work and engage effectively in savvy subtle honest ways.
- Ethical Fiber: Has exceptionally strong ethical behavior; is selfreflectiveand has strong empathy skills.
- SelfDefinition: Assumes that changing the world in big ways and at least on a continental scale iswhat they will do in life. Naturally operates at this level and hasdeveloped appropriate skills andways of thinking
Ashoka is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race religion color gender gender identity/expression sexual orientation national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by federal state and local laws. Ashokas commitment to nondiscrimination extends to all terms and conditions of employment including employee recruitment selection compensation benefits training performance evaluation promotion demotion discipline and termination.
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