Framework Change & Communications Leader, North America

Job Description

Job Description

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 :

• Develop  a regional / global storytelling movement that encourages the sharing of stories of exemplary “new game” behavior, including breaking down walls between sectors to form problem-solving partnerships, the transformation of passive victims and onlookers into active changemakers, and a systems approach to solution development.
• Messaging :   Ensure Ashoka’s narrative leads with our vision and empowers our community of partners .   Share and create stories that show, not just tell, the shift towards citizen and youth agency.
• Movement Marketing :  Lead our efforts to build cohesive and leveraged approaches with movement partners to advance framework change initiatives such as Lead Young, and Everyone a Changemaker.  Work with teams globally to ensure effectiveness and consistency.
• Press :  Launch, nurture, and guide media partnership strategy aligned with Ashoka’s strategy. Cultivate key influencers, media, and publishers.
• Digital :    Ensure Ashoka’s web and social media properties align with and drive strategic messaging. Innovate ways for Ashoka to further develop a digital presence and brand .
• Raising  resources to support and build the storytelling movement with partners.

What You Bring :

Core Criteria

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.