Global Operations Leader
Arlington, VA
Global Leadership Team Office /
Full-Time /
On-site
The Opportunity:
Ashoka seeks an entrepreneur to lead Ashoka’s wide-ranging functions & operational initiatives in pursuit of Ashoka’s Everyone a Changemaker vision. The Global Operations Leader will be a key member of Ashoka’s global senior executive team, working closely with other leaders to integrate strategy setting & performance management across the organization. In addition, they will create new ideas & systems that lead to growth and greater effectiveness for the organization and our mission/vision.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as the primary Accountability Partner (AP) for all Ashoka’s global shared service teams
- Build bridges to Diamond, Purpose and core constituency teams; ensuring that support workers fully “get” and are integrated with Ashoka’s strategy and work in the world.
- Oversee Ashoka’s complex human management system
- Take responsibility for data management in the organization
- Approve and oversee Ashoka’s global shared service budgets
What You Bring:
- Executive leadership experience (CEO, president, executive director, etc.)
- 10+ years’ experience in entrepreneurial and operational leadership in complex, global environments
- Proven ability to lead through influence, ideas, and exceptional communication skills
- Demonstrated skills in managing deliverables and driving performance in a fast-paced, unstructured environment
- A canny ability to get teams aligned, speaking the same language, and helping each other to succeed
- Strong conceptual, problem solving, and organizational skills
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.
