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.
The application deadline for this role is 10th August 2025 at 11:59 PM GMT+7.
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.
