ASHOKA INDONESIA IS LOOKING FOR

VENTURE AND FELLOWSHIP MANAGER

Position type : full time

Location : hybrid (online and Jakarta office)
Period : December 2021 – November 2022 (with opportunity to continue)
Scope : Indonesia and Southeast Asia

About Ashoka
Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who understand that the
world now requires everyone to be a changemaker. 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, communities, and
at work. It is only in such a world where the solutions will outrun our social problems.
With its global network of over 3800 leading social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows)
in 92+ countries, 10,000 youth ventures, 180+ changemaker schools and 30+
changemaker campuses – as well as with its community of 20,000+ innovators on
Changemakers.com, Ashoka empowers people with the skills to create and drive
solutions for the good of all, and helps build and evolve enabling environments to help
them thrive in a world of constant change. Ashoka represents the largest platform for
social entrepreneurs and changemakers worldwide. Since its founding 40 years ago,
Ashoka has provided stipends, support services and connection to tthis expansive
network of fellows. For the past three decades, Ashoka has helped create the field of
social entrepreneurship. Today, Ashoka is aiming for its next paradigm shift: a world
in which everyone is a changemaker with Ashoka Fellow as the core of that. Examples
of Ashoka Fellows include:

• Mohammed Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2007)

• Kailash Sayarthi (Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2015)
• Katherine Lucey (Founder of Solar Sister)
• Wendy Kopp (Founder of Teach for America)
• Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia)
• Tri Mumpuni (Founder IBEKA)
• Butet Manurung (Founder Sokola Institute)
• Irfan Amalee (co-Founder Peace Generation)

More details on www.ashoka.org

Ashoka Venture and Fellowship Program

As one of the strategy to create Everyone a Changemaker World, Ashoka continues
to identify and support the world for leading social entrepreneurs through an intensive
human-centered process, selecting them into our global, trust-based fellowship of
peers. The process of selection is a transformative and enlightening experience.
Candidates articulate their innovations and how they have the potential to change
sector-wide systems. They scrutinize their strategies and methods, and reflect on how
they engage as individual and leaders in today's work. The selection process in not
simply a means to an end, but rather generates robust discussion, sharpens ideas and
gives room for a journey of self discovery and growth. Ashoka’s venture process is an
intensive process that ensure the election of only those social entrepreneurs who are
truly pioneering systemic social change around the world.

Our office in 35 countries around the world receive thousands of nominations and
from them, select new cohort of Ashoka fellows. We focus our efforts on sourcing
and supporting social innovators who are creating change by tacking the systemic
roots of challenge. These ventures are at the core of Ashoka’s movement to ensure
that sustainable social solutions are implemented to confront humanitarian needs
world-wide and to create impactful and lasting improvement that advance the
wellbeing of society. Together with Next Now Program, The Venture Team enable
the Fellows and changemakers in Ashoka lead social change across four
interconnected areas that are central to creating a thriving world for all: New
Longevity, Gender, Planet & Climate, and Tech & Humanity. Working with the world’s
top entrepreneurs, we uplift new belief systems that challenge inequality at its core.
By inspiring new thinking and connecting changemakers in surprising alliances, we bring
the Next into the Now. Together, we are building a world where: Aging is redefined
as New Longevity, which is synonymous with growth not decline. We leave Gender
bias behind and embrace gender justice. Partnering with nature leads to a rebalanced
Planet, and Technology amplifies the good of humanity not the bad

Opportunity: Venture and Fellowship Manager

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 Indonesia. He/she is an individual who has
a strong grasp of systems change and share Ashoka’s vision of social entrepreneurship
and building an Everyone a Changemaker world. The Venture and Fellowship Manager
will work closely with Ashoka Indonesia, SEA and global team in relation with Venture
and Fellowship works.

As a Venture & Fellowship manager, your main tasks will be to:

• 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 Indonesia, 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
Indonesia.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree required, with the research background is more
preferable.
• Minimum 2 years work experience preferably in community building,
partnership or program manager especially in the social innovation/social
entrepreneurs sector.
 • Fluency in both Indonesia and English, written and verbal, are required

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

- Intrapreneurial individual, having built initiatives from scratch, either within
organizations, or her own. A self-starter with a strong work ethic, positive
outlook, and professionalism.
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and manage a high-volume
workload at a fast pace.
- A strong demonstrated interest in social entrepreneurship and social
innovation.
- Ability to easily adapt to a constantly changing environment and meet deadlines
- Superb writing and communications skills.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking applicable to social innovation.
- Exceptional team player with ability to build relationships and collaborative works
with individuals of various cultural and professional backgrounds and develop
partnerships.
- Proactive and organized individual with strong project management skills.
- Deep commitment to supporting social entrepreneurship and changemaking in the
region in alignment with Ashoka’s vision, strategy and theory of change.

Personal qualities
Ashoka has a rigorous screening process for hiring staff at all career stages. All
applicants for all positions must possess the following qualities along with the
appropriate degree of experience:
➢ Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship: 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 as priority.
➢ Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior such as self-reflective, strong
empathy skills and 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.

Ashoka looks for entrepreneurs with a track record of generating new ideas and
bringing them to fruition. We ask please consider the following questions in your
cover letter:

1) New Idea
a. What significant idea did you create and bring to fruition?
b. How was this idea new and different from others in the space?
c. What was the impact of this new idea? What new system was created?
2) Youth Entrepreneurship
 What was your earliest youth changemaker experience and how did it impact
your career?

Submit your CV and motivation letter to indonesia@ashoka.org with Subject:

[VF Manager_Name]

Submission Deadline: Sunday, November 14th 2021