ASPIRe is looking for a dynamic Program Manager to help us grow and support our vibrant network of this role youll help shape and run our Accelerator programrecruiting inspiring Ashoka Fellows supporting their journeys and ensuring our operations run smoothly. Youll work across teams coordinate with mission-driven partners and help bring our annual Summit to life.
The application deadline for this role is 22nd September 2025 at 11:59 PM GMT7.
What Youll Do:
Lead the recruitment and onboarding of high-potential Fellows and their Mission Teams.
Support Mission Teams throughout their journey ensuring theyre connected informed and thriving.
Keep our systems and records organized and up to date.
Coordinate across teams to ensure timelines and deliverables stay on track.
Help plan and execute our annual Summit a key moment for our community.
(Optional) If youre excited about storytelling or social media theres room to contribute to our communications too.
What You Bring:
5-7 years of experience in program or project management.
A self-starter with strong coordination and communication skills (good English is a must).
Someone who thrives in fast-paced cross-functional and globally distributed teams.
Entrepreneurial spirit is a must.
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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