Empathy Movement Leader, Ashoka Global

Every Child Must Master Empathy

At the foundation of Ashoka’s efforts to create an Everyone a Changemaker world, and to transform youth years, is the paradigm that empathy must be at the foundation. We are looking for an extraordinary entrepreneur to lead the Global Empathy Initiative. We have 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.

• Lead, grow, and collaborate with Ashoka’s teams across 35 countries to build the Empathy Initiative into a global movement. 
• Work with Ashoka’s President, 6 regional leaders (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa), and other senior stakeholders to build each region as an integrated, fluid team of teams by weaving together Ashoka Fellows, business entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and many other carefully selected partners 
• 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 across 80+ countries 

• The Global 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.
• 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 (10+ years). 
• Proven ability to lead through influence, ideas, and exceptional communication skills. 
• Demonstrated ability in major client/partner relationship management, fundraising, resource mobilization, and balanced budget management.

• 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.