Framework Change & Communications Leader, Africa
Framework Change & Communications Leader, Africa
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23-08-2025
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Ashoka is seeking a highly entrepreneurial and innovative leader to drive the Everyone a Changemaker movement across Africa reporting directly to the Africa Diamond Leadership team. As theAfrica Diamond Framework Changelead you will forge partnerships with media educational institutions corporations and other strategic stakeholders to activate networks that champion changemaking across the continent. This role is central to fostering a culture where changemaking becomes the norm with a focus on instilling core skillsempathy initiative teamwork and leadershipat all levels of society.
What Youll Do:
- Movement Storytelling:Design and implement a regional storytelling framework that showcases the shift toward youth empowerment and citizen agency promoting a collaborative approach to solving shared challenges across Africa.
- Movement Marketing:Lead Ashokas efforts in developing a cohesive marketing strategy that advances initiatives like Lead Young and Everyone a Changemaker. Ensure the narrative aligns with Ashokas vision and empowers both internal teams and external partners.
- Media Partnerships:Develop and manage a media strategy that aligns with Ashokas regional objectives fostering relationships with key influencers media partners and publishers to amplify the movements message.
- Strategic Partnerships:Identify cultivate and solidify partnerships with funders corporations foundations unions educators and other entities to expand Ashokas reach and deepen the impact of the Everyone a Changemaker movement.
- Movement Messaging:Spearhead a social media campaign across Africa to spread the Everyone a Changemaker message engaging a broad range of audiences through various digital platforms.
- Movement Building:Grow a network of young people parents educators and citizens who embrace and identify as changemakers helping to establish changemaking as a societal norm throughout the continent.
What You Bring:
- 15-20 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in Social Impact:A demonstrated ability to identify systemic issues and develop innovative solutions with regional or sector-wide impact ideally including the creation or expansion of impactful organizations or movements.
- Entrepreneurial Drive:Proven experience in launching or transforming initiatives whether through founding an organization reshaping an existing one or leading systemic change in a sector.
- Strategic Partnerships:A record of building partnerships with key stakeholders to amplify social impact and drive systemic change.
- Communications Expertise:Strong communication skills particularly in social media storytelling and public speaking to elevate Ashokas mission across Africa.
- Movement Building:Experience in creating a movements marketing framework including social media strategy storytelling and communications architecture.
- Fundraising Skills:Ability to support Ashokas mission through strategic communication that aligns with fundraising efforts or direct experience in raising funds to support a mission-driven organization.
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 theEveryonea Changemaker:Understands and believes theEveryonea 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.
About Ashoka:
Ashoka is the worlds largest community of leading social entrepreneurs having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing 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.
Our current work is centered around the Everyone a Changemaker (EACH) movement which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.
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