Ashoka’s vision is of a future where everyone has the lifelong power to contribute to a rapidly changing world. If everyone is a changemaker and contributor, humanity’s new solutions can keep pace with the new problems, and a more equitable future can be achieved. We are a passionate, entrepreneurial team across more than 100 countries working together to achieve this vision.
What You'll Do:
Build a framework for lifelong contribution: Help society recognize and accelerate mechanisms that will allow everyone to be a changemaker throughout life, especially after their 60s. Initiate and build strong partnerships with top institutions to enable this framework and shift mindsets and behaviors around lifelong contribution and changemaking. Co-Lead the New Longevity global team and strategy with cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders. This entails iteratively learning and creating, as well as integrating efforts with the larger global team.
What You Bring:
Track record of highly successful entrepreneurship, with a history of generating new ideas and leading them to system-changing impacts Demonstrated ability in innovative revenue & resource generation, major client/partner relationship management, resource mobilization, and balanced budget management.Demonstrated effectiveness in developing strong partnerships and cross-sector coalitions in an entrepreneurial context Openness and flexibility to think across fields and geographies Excellent conceptual and communication skills Gracious team player Minimum of 20 years' experience Strong networks in the fields of longevity, government, and media ideal
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.
