Framework Change and Communications Leader Ashoka North America
Framework Change and Communications Leader Ashoka North America
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Position at Ashoka
Position at Ashoka
North America Leadership Group Member
Framework Change: Building and Communicating an Everyone a Changemaker World
North America Leadership Group Member
Framework Change: Building and Communicating an Everyone a Changemaker World
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the worlds largest community of leading social entrepreneurs and pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship more than 40 years ago. We find select and support a robust network of more than 4000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systemschanging solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker. Ashokas work therefore started with the Fellows building and spreading the construct of social entrepreneurship which has led to our current work the Everyone a Changemaker movement.
Everyone a Changemaker stems from our belief that everyone is a giver and that everyone must recognize both their potential and responsibility to make positive change in an everchanging world. Central to this movement is breaking down silos and replacing them with new networks (and new networks of networks) that together fundamentally change how people of all ages identify and act as changemakers.
The Opportunity
Ashoka is seeking an individual with a track record of entrepreneurialism innovation and changemaking to lead the Everyone a Changemaker movement in the region. As a Framework Change Leader they will create partnerships with leading media outlets publishers unions educational institutions and corporate entities to activate networks that together create a world where everyone children young people and adults of all ages masters what Ashoka has identified as core changemaking skills: empathy initiative to act for impact (i.e. changemaking) teamwork and leadership.
Key Achievements Will Include
- Movement Storytelling: Develop a regional storytelling framework that encourages the sharing of stories that show not just tell the shift toward youth and citizen agency and an autonomy respecting systems approach to developing solutions to shared challenges.
- Movement Marketing: Lead Ashoka efforts to build cohesive and leveraged approaches with partners to advance framework change initiatives such as Lead Young and Everyone a Changemaker. Ensure that Ashokas narrative leads with the Everyone a Changemaker vision and empowers our internal teams and external partners across the region.
- Media partnerships: Launch nurture and guide media strategy aligned with Ashokas organisational strategy. Cultivate key influencers media and publishers.
- Other Strategic Partnerships: Search out nurture and solidify partnerships with funders corporations foundations unions educators and other entities.
- Movement Messaging: Lead a social media campaign in the region that utilizes various online platforms to reach everyone with the Everyone a Changemaker message.
- Movement Building: Increase the number of young people parents educators partners and citizens that identify as changemakers so that Changemaking becomes the new norm.
Qualifications
Given that this role is in Ashokas Leadership Group and involves international influencing and impact the right candidate will have the skills and 1520 years of related experience to effectively execute deliverables. They will have already:
- Identified a shared problem and created an innovative solution with system or sectorwide 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 ones student years.
- Created partnerships with key actors to advance an innovation and its social impact.
- Elevated the profile of an organization cause or mission.
- Built knowledge about and experience with social media platforms and campaigns to multiply and advance impact.
- Created a strategic movements marketing communications architecture including social media writing storytelling and speaking events.
- Supported the building of marketing and communications capacity 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 / longterm goals may change to adapt to shifts in the ecosystem or social impact landscape.
- Has an ability to balance creative strategy design with daytoday based on current needs.
- Is skilled at leading and managing a team that has autonomy and independence to further cultivate Ashokas 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.
Ashokas Core Hiring Criteria
ENTREPRENEURSHIP/INTRAPRENEURSHIP: Demonstrates a track record of taking creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company starting a movement or reshaping the work of an existing organization). For Leadership Group Member roles specifically an entrepreneurial track record is crucial.
UNDERSTANDING & BELIEF IN THE VISION OF AN EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER FUTURE: Understands and embraces Ashokas vision; has a broad and inquisitive intellect and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and the current social context.
EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE: Has the ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams.
ETHICAL FIBER: Possess exceptionally strong ethical behavior.
SELF DEFINITION: Assumes that changing the world in big ways is what they will do in life.
Ashoka is an equal opportunity employer and invites applications from candidates regardless of race gender sexual orientation age disability or religion.
This position is based in Arlington Virginia.
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