Framework Change & Communications Leader, Southeast Asia

Ashoka is seeking an individual with a track record of entrepreneurialism, innovation and changemaking to lead the “Everyone a Changemaker” movement in the region. As a Framework Change Leader, they will create partnerships with leading media outlets, publishers, unions, educational institutions, and corporate entities to activate networks that together create a world where everyone – children, young people, and adults of all ages - masters what Ashoka has identified as core changemaking skills: empathy, initiative to act for impact (i.e., changemaking), teamwork, and leadership.

What You'll Do

• Movement Storytelling: Design and implement a regional storytelling framework that showcases the shift toward youth empowerment and citizen agency, promoting a collaborative approach to solving shared challenges across the region.
• Movement Marketing: Lead Ashoka’s efforts in developing a cohesive marketing strategy that advances initiatives like “Lead Young” and “Everyone a Changemaker.” Ensure the narrative aligns with Ashoka’s vision and empowers both internal teams and external partners.
• Media Partnerships: Develop and manage a media strategy that aligns with Ashoka’s regional objectives, fostering relationships with key influencers, media partners, and publishers to amplify the movement’s message.
• Strategic Partnerships: Identify, cultivate, and solidify partnerships with funders, corporations, foundations, unions, educators, and other entities to expand Ashoka’s reach and deepen the impact of the Everyone a Changemaker movement.
• Movement Messaging: Spearhead a social media campaign across Africa to spread the “Everyone a Changemaker” message, engaging a broad range of audiences through various digital platforms.
• Movement Building: Grow a network of young people, parents, educators, and citizens who embrace and identify as changemakers, helping to establish changemaking as a societal norm throughout the continent.
  
  

What You Bring

• 15-20 years of relevant experience, where you can demonstrate that you have:
• Identified a shared problem and created an innovative solution with system- or sector-wide impact.
• Created partnerships with key actors to advance an innovation and its social impact.
• Elevated the profile of an organization, cause or mission.
• Built knowledge about and experience with social media platforms and campaigns to multiply and advance impact.
• Created a strategic movement’s marketing communications architecture including social media, writing, storytelling, and speaking events.
• Supported the building of marketing and communications capacity and needs across teams to advance a mission through fundraising efforts. Or, raised substantial funding to support their own organization and mission.
• An ability to adapt and thrive in an entrepreneurial, fluid, team of teams environment in which needs, strategy and short- / long-term goals may change to adapt to shifts in the ecosystem or social impact landscape.
• The ability to balance creative strategy design with day-to-day execution based on current needs.
• The skill to lead and manage a team that has autonomy and independence to further cultivate Ashoka’s emphasis on creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Understanding, empathy, teamwork, leadership and changemaking in your lived experience and has the ability to enable or share these capacities with others.
  
  

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.

Ashoka is seeking an individual with a track record of entrepreneurialism, innovation and changemaking to lead the “Everyone a Changemaker” movement in the region. As a Framework Change Leader, they will create partnerships with leading media outlets, publishers, unions, educational institutions, and corporate entities to activate networks that together create a world where everyone – children, young people, and adults of all ages - masters what Ashoka has identified as core changemaking skills: empathy, initiative to act for impact (i.e., changemaking), teamwork, and leadership.

What You'll Do

• Movement Storytelling: Design and implement a regional storytelling framework that showcases the shift toward youth empowerment and citizen agency, promoting a collaborative approach to solving shared challenges across the region.
• Movement Marketing: Lead Ashoka’s efforts in developing a cohesive marketing strategy that advances initiatives like “Lead Young” and “Everyone a Changemaker.” Ensure the narrative aligns with Ashoka’s vision and empowers both internal teams and external partners.
• Media Partnerships: Develop and manage a media strategy that aligns with Ashoka’s regional objectives, fostering relationships with key influencers, media partners, and publishers to amplify the movement’s message.
• Strategic Partnerships: Identify, cultivate, and solidify partnerships with funders, corporations, foundations, unions, educators, and other entities to expand Ashoka’s reach and deepen the impact of the Everyone a Changemaker movement.
• Movement Messaging: Spearhead a social media campaign across Africa to spread the “Everyone a Changemaker” message, engaging a broad range of audiences through various digital platforms.
• Movement Building: Grow a network of young people, parents, educators, and citizens who embrace and identify as changemakers, helping to establish changemaking as a societal norm throughout the continent.
  
  

What You Bring

• 15-20 years of relevant experience, where you can demonstrate that you have:
• Identified a shared problem and created an innovative solution with system- or sector-wide impact.
• Created partnerships with key actors to advance an innovation and its social impact.
• Elevated the profile of an organization, cause or mission.
• Built knowledge about and experience with social media platforms and campaigns to multiply and advance impact.
• Created a strategic movement’s marketing communications architecture including social media, writing, storytelling, and speaking events.
• Supported the building of marketing and communications capacity and needs across teams to advance a mission through fundraising efforts. Or, raised substantial funding to support their own organization and mission.
• An ability to adapt and thrive in an entrepreneurial, fluid, team of teams environment in which needs, strategy and short- / long-term goals may change to adapt to shifts in the ecosystem or social impact landscape.
• The ability to balance creative strategy design with day-to-day execution based on current needs.
• The skill to lead and manage a team that has autonomy and independence to further cultivate Ashoka’s emphasis on creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Understanding, empathy, teamwork, leadership and changemaking in your lived experience and has the ability to enable or share these capacities with others.
  
  

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.