Family Changemaking Associate
Jakarta, Indonesia
Children & Empathy /
Limited Term /
Hybrid
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 18th September 2025 at 11:59 PM GMT+7.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with Family Changemaking Program Manager to develop strategy and key approach in mainstreaming Everyone a Changemaker (EACH) movement.
- Help to managing co-creation and co-leadership with workflow and deliverables between Ashoka and key partners.
- Provide technical assistance for Purpose 1 Team (Children and Empathy and Family Changemaking) from initiation to closure for multiple and simultaneous projects.
- Active involvement in facilitating a routine of regular two-way engagements: discussions, idea-exchange forum, networking spaces, events, etc. with key partners, related stakeholders, including local, regional, and global networks.
- Maintain tracking and reporting, project status, database, and consistently deliver on time and within budget.
- Active involvement in fostering healthy relationships at cross-functional organization; facilitate trust, positive team morale, communication, and conflict resolution.
- Provide assistance for Purpose 1 team in handling ongoing stakeholder engagement and ensuring improvement of the journey in liaison with other partners
What You Bring:
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
- Required 1-2 years of prior experience program development and implementation.
- Strong facilitation skills
- Ability to work on own initiative, proactively and independently and under minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills.
- You're highly organized, detail-oriented and able to set clear guidelines and deadlines.
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.
