Metro Activation 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:
- Strategic Support & Development
- Contribute to the design and refinement of strategies for Kawasan Gerakan Pembaharu in metro areas.
- Ensure alignment between local initiatives and Ashoka’s national and global goals.
- Program Coordination
- Lead the implementation of the “100 Conversations” initiative in new and emerging metro areas.
- Co-Lead the implementation of Gaharu Bumi Innovation Challenge & Festival.
- Coordinate with local stakeholders to identify and nurture potential changemaker communities.
- Network Engagement
- Activate and engage Ashoka’s networks in metro areas through various tools such as Changemaker Index (CMI), Layar Gaharu, Your Kids Sessions, and many others.
- Data & Monitoring
- Maintain and update the Kawasan Gaharu database and dashboard regularly.
- Monitor progress and achievements, capturing Stories of Change and key lessons learned from each metro area
- Communication & Collaboration
- Serve as the primary point of contact for both internal teams and external partners regarding Kawasan Gaharu. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure programmatic alignment and shared purpose.
What You Bring:
- You're an empathic listener and possess good interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience in managing, leading, or co-leading big events.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Indonesian.
- You are intuitive, open minded and result oriented.
- An ability to work independently, proactively, or with minimal supervision.
- Minimum 3 years of experience (voluntary or paid) in program development and implementation or work in the social sector.
- Strong organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills.
- You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of setting clear guidelines and deadlines.
- You preferably have experience in handling a medium to large-scale online/offline event
- Comfort managing multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Personal and professional interest in Ashoka’s mission, with a zest for learning and leveraging the latest trends, channels, and tools.
- Strong interest in accelerating the movement-building ecosystem across Indonesia.
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.
