Program Manager

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. 

ASPIRe is looking for a dynamic Program Manager to help us grow and support our vibrant network of changemakers. In this role, you’ll help shape and run our Accelerator program—recruiting inspiring Ashoka Fellows, supporting their journeys, and ensuring our operations run smoothly. You’ll 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 GMT+7.

• Lead the recruitment and onboarding of high-potential Fellows and their Mission Teams.
• Support Mission Teams throughout their journey, ensuring they’re 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 you’re excited about storytelling or social media, there’s room to contribute to our communications too.

• 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.

• 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.