Venture and Fellowship Manager, Philippines
Manila, Philippines
Venture /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Ashoka is looking for a self-driven individual with a deep commitment to social change to lead the selection of new Ashoka Fellows and manage the existing Ashoka community of leading social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the full selection process of new Ashoka Fellows in the region, from sourcing to international validation.
- Build an active, collaborative and supportive network across the region to ensure a meaningful experience for Ashoka Fellows.
- Manage communication with Fellows as well as knowledge aspects.
- Coordinate with Ashoka Southeast Asia and Ashoka Global strategy when it comes to Venture & Fellowship.
- Develop partnerships to support Venture and Fellowship work in the region.
- Help represent Ashoka, social entrepreneurship and changemaking in the Philippines.
What You Bring:
- Minimum 5 years of work experience, including experience in the Philippines.
- Fluency in English, written and verbal.
- Development Sector/Social entrepreneurship experience highly preferred.
- A Bachelor’s degree.
- Candidates for this position must possess authorization to work in the Philippines in order to be considered.
- You are entre/intrapreneurial, having built initiatives from scratch, either within organizations, or your own.
- You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and manage a high-volume workload at a fast pace.
- Superb writing and communications skills.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking applicable to social innovation.
- You're an exceptional team player with the ability to build relationships with individuals of various cultural and professional backgrounds and develop partnerships.
- You are proactive and organized with strong project management skills
- You share a deep commitment to supporting social entrepreneurship and changemaking in the region.
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.
