Ashoka - Leadership Group Member, Global Talent Search

Description

Position at Ashoka

About Ashoka

Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs and pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship more than 40 years ago. We find, select, and 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. Ashoka’s work therefore started with the Fellows, building and spreading the construct of social entrepreneurship, which has led to our current work – the ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ (EACH) movement.

EACH stems from our belief that everyone is a “giver”, and that everyone must recognize both their potential and responsibility to make positive change in an everchanging world. Central to this movement is breaking down silos and replacing them with new networks (and new networks of networks) that together fundamentally change how people of all ages identify and act as changemakers.

 

The Opportunity 

Ashoka seeks an individual with a track record of entrepreneurialism, innovation, and sector-wide impact to lead on our global search for priority senior staff talent. The Leadership Group Member (LGM) for Global Search will lead a small but international Search team in developing new approaches to better source, engage and champion the most aligned priority senior prospects for global and regional roles. They will leverage decades of Talent experience to build in-roads to even more of the world’s leading innovators and changemakers to strengthen our pipeline for priority senior hires. They will also lead on broader implementation of our OneSearch approach across Ashoka’s global teams, which honours prospective candidates as whole people and re-frames conversations to identify the most mutually beneficial opportunities for future employment or collaboration. The LGM for Global Search will be a key member of Ashoka’s global senior executive team, too, working closely with other leaders to integrate core strategy and performance measurement across the organization, and creating new systems that lead to growth and greater effectiveness.

This work will be guided by the shared belief that broader adoption of Ashoka's EACH vision requires having the right co-leadership team in place in Ashoka's global hubs including Bangalore, Jakarta, Lagos, London, Sao Paulo, and Washington, DC. 

Key Achievements Will Include

• Innovation in priority senior staff recruitment to ensure that the most aligned and entrepreneurial talent is sourced, engaged and championed
• Implementation of new strategies to more successfully tap into networks of constituent groups including Ashoka Fellows, alumni and partners 
• Formation of new networks in and across sectors to open additional pathways for identifying and engaging priority senior talent globally
• Leveraging of deep knowledge of digital recruitment platforms to maximise their benefits and more successfully meet team hiring targets
• Application of artificial intelligence that is both strategic and ethical to streamline online searches and identify the most aligned senior priority candidates
• Successful collaboration with Ashoka’s Excellence and Leadership Teams to ensure that a higher number of sourced priority senior talent successfully advance through organization’s multiple hiring stages
• Bridge-building with regional, thematic and core constituency teams to cultivate shared, robust approach to finding and engaging the most aligned leading innovators and changemakers
• Organizing to maximize efficiency by maintaining favorable outcomes while reducing costs in the context of best practices 
• Compliance with all relevant GDPR regulations and industry standards
  
  

Qualifications 

Given that this role is in Ashoka’s Leadership Group and involves international influencing and impact, the right candidate will have the skills and 15-20 years of related Search experience to effectively execute deliverables. They will have already:

• Created new architecture for strategic sourcing, engagement and championing of priority senior talent in a global organization
• Established strong relationships with leading executive search firms and successfully leveraged online recruitment platforms to meet and exceed priority senior hiring targets
• Led through influence, management, and exceptional communication skills in a global team of teams environment 
• Identified a shared problem and created an innovative solution with system- or sector-wide impact.
• Founded their own social impact organization to scale their innovation, advanced a mission/cause through an innovation that has since changed a sector or system, or launched a movement driven in part by innovative approaches with measurable systemic impact; this work may have started as early as one’s student years
• Created partnerships with key actors to advance an innovation and its social impact
• Demonstrated strong management, technical, problem solving, and organizational skills 
• Elevated the profile of an organization, cause or mission
  
  

The right candidate also

• Has an ability to adapt and thrive in an entrepreneurial, fluid, team of teams environment in which needs, strategy and short- / long-term goals may change to adapt to shifts in the ecosystem or social impact landscape
• Has an ability to balance creative strategy design with day-to-day execution based on current needs
• Is skilled at leading and managing a team that has autonomy and independence to further cultivate Ashoka’s emphasis on creativity and entrepreneurial spirit
• Understands and exhibits empathy, teamwork, leadership and changemaking in their lived experience and has the ability to enable or share these capacities with others
• Meets Ashoka’s core hiring criteria
  
  

Ashoka's Core Hiring Criteria

ENTREPRENEURSHIP/INTRAPRENEURSHIP: Demonstrates a track record of taking creative initiative and ownership (e.g., founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). For Leadership Group Member roles specifically, an entrepreneurial track record is crucial. 

UNDERSTANDING & BELIEF IN THE VISION OF AN EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER FUTURE: Understands and embraces Ashoka’s vision; has a broad and inquisitive intellect and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and the current social context. 

 

EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE: Has the ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams. 

 ETHICAL FIBER: Possess exceptionally strong ethical behavior.

 

 SELF DEFINITION: Assumes that changing the world in big ways is what they will do in life.

 

Ashoka is a unique and special global organisation. You will have the opportunity to work with the most incredible Changemakers around the world and to be at the forefront of supporting young Changemakers. This position is based in Ashoka’s U.S. office in Arlington, Virginia. Come and join us.

Ashoka is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for every person who walks through our doors. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Ashoka celebrates and embraces diversity.

Ashoka is the world's largest community of leading social entrepreneurs and pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship more than 40 years ago. We find, select, and 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.