About Ashoka
Ashoka is on an audacious mission – to create a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e. a world where everyone has the agency and skills to make a positive change in their families or communities. It is only in such a world where the solutions will outrun our social problems. With its global network of over 3.500 leading social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows), 10,000 youth ventures, 180+ changemaker schools, and 30+ changemaker campuses – as well as a community of 20,000+ innovators on Changemakers.com – Ashoka works with strategic partners to empower people with the skills to create solutions for the good of all in a world of constant change.
The application deadline for this role is 10th August 2025 at 11:59 PM GMT+7.
What You'll Do:
- Program Management and Execution
- Oversee end-to-end program delivery, ensure the seamless execution of the JustSystems program, meeting all deliverables, timelines, and quality standards, while fostering a collaborative team environment.
- Manage day-to-day operations, including preparing materials, coordinating calls/events, and handling logistics for key events and activities. Coordinate logistics for sessions with guest speakers and manage additional impact-related projects.
- Lead the talent scouting process for the Civil Society Organization (CSO) and mentor or coach through several activations: site visit to CSO validation, running the online orientation workshop, conduct the identification of mentor or coach, also conduct the workshop and or facilitation for the mentor
- Network Building and Orchestration
- Support the creation of a vibrant JustSystems program by fostering engagement, showcasing program progress, and maintaining stakeholder interest.
- Develop and implement a system for selection, tracking, and engaging CSOs, mentors, coaches, and facilitators for the program.
- Manage day-to-day activities related to the engagement of CSOs and third parties (including preparing materials, coordinating calls/events, and handling logistics), ensuring the seamless execution of the JustSystems program, meeting all deliverables, timelines, and quality standards while fostering a collaborative team environment.
- Partnership Development
- Assist in building strategic partnerships through proposal writing, partner management, and aligning resources for program growth.
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
- Collect, analyze, and report on feedback to drive continuous program evaluation, improvement, and learning.
- Lead the integration of MEL findings into program design, planning, and reporting.
- Prepare and deliver regular progress reports and key outcomes to stakeholders.
- Oversee the creation of case studies and other knowledge-sharing materials to highlight program impact and best practices.
What You Bring:
- 7 -10yrs experience in program management.
- Entrepreneurial background.
- Fluent in English.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. A “role up your sleeves” attitude.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience in stakeholder engagement.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented
- Excellent time management and multitasking skills
- Able to work productively, proactively and independently, on own initiative
- Experience in event planning, logistics management, and/or impact measurement.
- Comfortable working in a multi-regional team from different time zones (some early night calls may be required)
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.