Executive Office Holiday Mailing Consultant
Arlington, VA
Individual Giving /
Consultant/Contract /
On-site
Ashoka is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented consultant to support our holiday mailing initiative. As a Holiday Mailing Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing a thoughtful, high-impact experience that reflects Ashoka’s global mission and values. You will play a critical part in ensuring that holiday mailings, gifts, and packages are prepared, tracked, and delivered in a timely and accurate manner.
This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate across teams, manage creative and logistical workflows, and ensure every element embodies excellence and care. If you thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment and bring both operational precision and creative insight, we invite you to help us make this holiday mailing a meaningful success. This position is expected to work 20 hours/week, on average.
What You'll Do:
- Manage and update holiday mailing lists, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Prepare and package holiday gifts, including mugs, books, and gift boxes.
- Staff the holiday gift assembly process and ensure proper labeling and packaging.
- Update the tracking sheet for each box once mailed, maintaining both digital and hard copy records.
- Provide daily reports on the number of boxes mailed and overall progress.
- Maintain accurate inventory of gift items, packaging supplies, and ensure timely replenishment.
What You Bring:
- Proven experience in project management, event coordination and logistics preferred.
- Strong written communication and editing skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Experience working with printers, designers, or mailing vendors preferred.
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.
