Country Director, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel
Strategic Planning /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Started in 2010, the Israeli office aims to build a thriving international network of changemakers – social entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial funders, and emerging innovator working together to address the hardest problems facing Israel and the Jewish world today. Currently, we have a network of nine Ashoka Fellows across the country. Now we want to take our work to the next level and build into a resilient network of social innovators and entrepreneurs across the entire global Jewish world, touching companies, universities, young people, and everyone else along the way.
We are looking for a leader with a unique skill set to help us meet the challenge.
Are you passionate about driving change in Israel and the Jewish world?
Have you founded an organization (or a few) and scaled them up?
Have you built a movement or a campaign that has changed thinking on a large scale?
Have you brought unique major partners to work together in collaboration?
Are you ready for truly global impact?
We have a powerful opportunity for you:
The Director of Ashoka Israel will serve as a thought leader, team builder, partnership manager, network weaver, organization developer, and strategy lead for Ashoka’s work in Israel and the Jewish world globally. Alongside entrepreneurial team members, the Director will help develop a bold vision for Ashoka Israel in the next stage of growth and play an instrumental role in transforming it into a Changemakers Nation. The Director will also take this work to the next level and build a resilient network if Israeli and Jewish Ashoka Fellows, partners, and funders. Building partnerships and fundraising will be a key component of the work.
The Ashoka Israel office is flexible on geography for the right candidate but must be primarily based in Israel. The candidate must be willing to travel, often internationally.
At Ashoka, we are not typically looking to hire someone who can just do a job. We are looking to hire someone who can redefine a job; taking it, the team, and the organization to a higher level. That means that who you are and what you’ve been compelled to do is more important than your degrees, your work experience, and the metrics demonstrating your competence.
What You Bring:
- Have a track record of innovating solutions and successfully bringing them to fruition
- Demonstrate experience in significantly scaling the social impact of organizations
- An ability to lead and build partnerships through influence, ideas, and exceptional communication skills
- A demonstrated ability in major client/partner relationship management, fundraising, and resource mobilization
- Strong social/emotional intelligence and proven leadership ability to inspire, enable, and integrate an entrepreneurial team with respect and collegiality
- An established network in Israel and the Jewish World globally
- Experience in the responsibilities of an Executive Director, both in representing an organization externally, and managing internal operations
- Understanding of Israel’s and the Jewish world’s diversity, current challenges, and opportunities for system-level change
- A deep passion for leading work at the intersection of changemaking, Israel, and the Jewish world
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.
