Venture and Fellowship Manager for Ashoka Thailand
Description
VENTURE & FELLOWSHIP MANAGER - THAILAND
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 outweigh 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 Venture Fellowship Manager will work to build the strategy for search and selection of core venture and fellowship in Thailand. In addition, they will lead all engagement with fellows to support EACH movement in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Ashoka is looking for a self-driven individual with a deep commitment to social change to lead the selection of new Ashoka Fellows, manage the existing Ashoka community of leading social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia.
This role will be supported by, and expected to support back, the peers and teams of the wider regional and global organization, particularly the Global Venture Team and the Southeast Asia Team.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead the full selection process of new Ashoka Fellows in the region, from sourcing to international validation;
- Grown an active, collaborative and supportive network across the region to ensure a meaningful experience for Ashoka Fellows and build meaningful connections with the global Fellowship;
- Manage communication with Fellows and the knowledge aspects;
- Develop new strategies and national networks to find and support the most relevant, high-impact social innovators (Ashoka Fellows)
- Coordinate program strategies with Ashoka Southeast Asia and Ashoka Global;
- Develop partnerships to support Venture and Fellowship work in the region;
- Represent Ashoka in raising public awareness about social entrepreneurship and changemaking in Thailand
- Ensure DEI principles and safeguarding policies being carefully applied and streamlined in Thailand program strategies
- Upholding integrity and solidarity so regional teams could collaborate at ease with utmost support towards one another.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum 6 years' work experience in development sector/ social entrepreneurship.
- Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing Thai.
- Fluency in English, written and verbal, required.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Superb writing and communications skills with strong analytical and strategic thinking applicable to social innovation.
- Intrapreneurial individual with a history of having built initiatives from zero within organizations, or started new organizations, or having changed the direction of existing initiatives based on her/his/their original ideas.
- Flexible and creative problem-solver with the ability to work and multi-task in a fast-paced and unstructured environment.
- Exceptional team player with ability to build relationships with individuals of various cultural and professional backgrounds and develop partnerships
- Comfortable working across different sectors at a national level, especially with the business and social sectors and academia.
- Must demonstrate sensitivity to, and respect for, a diverse population and be able to work with people of different backgrounds across all areas of the world
- Proactive and organized individual with strong project management skills
- Strong understanding of social issues in Thailand with a demonstrated deep commitment to social change in the region
- Capacity to understand Ashoka’s vision and work at a systems and framework change level.
- Must inspire trust and demonstrate strong ethical fiber.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Ashoka has a rigorous screening process for hiring staff at all career stages. All applicants for all positions must possess the following qualities along with the appropriate degree of experience:
- Understanding and Belief in 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.
- Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship: 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.
- 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.