Ashoka is unleashing demand for empathy as a 21st century skill. Our Global Empathy Initiative has mobilized a powerful group of social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows), schools (Ashoka Changemaker Schools), media thought leaders, and other partners to drive a fundamental shift in children’s education and coming of age.
We are looking for an extraordinary entrepreneur to lead the Empathy initiative for South Asia. This is a powerful opportunity for an imaginative, collaborative entrepreneur. If you are an accomplished leader (from any field) who has built or grown an organization from early stages to large size, has built teams, believes in the power of networks, and are looking for the next big challenge, come join us.
What You'll Do:
- Lead, grow, and collaborate with Ashoka’s teams to build the Empathy initiative in South Asia as part of a collaborative entrepreneurship global movement.
- Work with Ashoka’s CEO and Southeast Asia regional leader, and other senior stakeholders to build the region as an integrated, fluid team of teams by weaving together Ashoka Fellows, carefully selected movement partners - teacher’s organizations and ed schools, publishers/media, government agencies, youth and parent organizations
- Raise resources, pioneer new revenue models, and garner strategic support to help make “Every child must master Empathy” the new normal.
- Design and lead systems to unleash compelling insights from Ashoka Fellow innovations
What You Bring:
- The Empathy Leader should have an extensive track record of creating new ideas that have resulted in a systemic change in his/her field. He/she should believe deeply in the power of social entrepreneurship and understand Ashoka’s Everyone a Changemaker™ vision.
- Demonstrated ability in innovative revenue & resource generation, major client/partner relationship management, resource mobilization, and balanced budget management.
- Profound empathy and cultural sensitivity.
- Experience working with and/or managing programs centered around furthering empathy, able to tap into the power of a network and see trends.
- A track record of innovating solutions and successfully bringing them to fruition.
- Clear career experience in significantly scaling the social impact of organizations.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, ideas, and exceptional communication skills.
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 the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a 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 world’s 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 4,000 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.
