Ashoka Hiring Blore July10

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Ashoka - Innovators for the Public

Since 1980, Ashoka has pioneered the field of socialentrepreneurship, investing in more than 2,500 leading socialentrepreneurs practical visionaries with systems-changing ideas --known as Ashoka Fellows, in over 70 countries. Rather than buildingone school or clinic in one community, Ashoka Fellows work at thesystemic level, transforming the way children learn or creating newhealthcare delivery systems. Ashoka then distills action-principlesthat cut across the work of these social entrepreneurs and createsframeworks for collaborative entrepreneurship to author globalchange. These sector-tipping principles gained through ourinnovative collaborative architecture, along with the role modelingand recruitment of other innovators by Ashoka Fellows, represent

Ashokas core strategy for realizing its vision of Everyone aChangemaker.

The India office just set up a new hub in Bangalore and is looking fornew Change Leaders to head important programs in the

organization: Group Entrepreneurship, Changemakers andFull Economic Citizenship .

Qualifications

Ashoka has a rigorous screening process for hiring new staff. The ideal candidate will:

Have a proven track record as an exceptionally entrepreneurial innovator, and at least 7years of demonstrated leadership experience in the social and/or business sectors. Be highly conceptual, while wedded to action Be willing and excited to work globally across Ashokas complementary programs. Have strong communications skills, with an ability to work easily with top caliber businessand social entrepreneurs Be a strong team member within Ashokas global community

For a full description of Ashokas criteria in evaluating staff, please visit our website at http:// www.ashoka.org/careers

Application Process

Please email a resume to Maria Clara Pinheiro: [email protected] by Aug, 15, 2010
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Ashokas Fellowship Program is a network of 320 Fellows in India and over 2,500 Fellows worldwide, offeringservices and opportunities designed to meet Fellows needs at all stages of their entrepreneurial careers. Theprogram supports its members with tools, personal and professional support, and enhanced entrepreneurialopportunities. Collaborating across regions and fields, Ashoka Fellows achieve results more powerful than whatthey could accomplish on their own. As a result of global collaborations, Ashoka is able to distill the mosteffective patterns and unify them into a mosaic a synthesis of the commonalities and intersections of keyprinciples that guide Fellows individual solutions. These overarching mosaics are then disseminated globally,

and form the basis of our programmatic initiatives specific to each

field of work, such as youth development. In this way, groupentrepreneurship not only helps Fellows become more successful, butit also helps Ashoka identify cutting edge trends and implement themmore broadly.

Position Description

Ashoka is looking for a competent leader who can head its GroupEntrepreneurship program. The person is expected to provide thenecessary vision and roadmap to the program in order to create andsustain a great community of Ashoka Fellows. He/she should develop

and maintain the necessary platforms and solutions/opportunities that create disproportionately higher valuethan what these Fellows had created in past in their individual capacities. The leader should have the experienceand vision to sight opportunities to create innovative products and programs that bring Ashoka Fellows to worktogether on large scale ideas that result in pattern-changing movements in the society.

Responsibilities

Identify and build strategic partnerships with external agencies to support Ashoka Fellowsand their organizations

Develop and execute appropriate training and orientation modules for Ashoka fellows

Strengthen the Ashoka community in IndiaWork with the marketing team to leverage the fellowship community in order to build astrong Ashoka brand in India

Develop the right platform and communication channels that not only ensures effectivecollaboration among Ashoka Fellows but also creates mutually beneficial partnershipsbetween Ashoka Fellows and external agencies

Manage program operations including budgeting, reporting and other administration issues

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Ashokas Changemakers is an online platform that assembles the entire ecosystem of change (innovators,investors, enthusiasts and end-users) to find solutions to specific problems framed by investors looking to opensource a problem to a community that is likely to have the answers. By leveraging the knowledge in Ashokasnetwork of innovators, Changemakers helps its clients identify and frame the right questions to solve any socialchallenge, and invites innovators to respond to the challenge throughopen, friendly collaborative competitions. In doing so, it formssurprising connections and unexpected partnerships across the globethat turn the old top down ways of problem-solving upside down.

Anyone with an idea can get it refined and spread throughChangemakers. To learn more, please visit www.changemakers.com


Ashokas Changemakers program is seeking a highly dynamic,entrepreneurial leader to join the India team and take this successfulprogram to its full potential. During this rapid growth phase,Changemakers is focused on developing the worlds go-to onlineplatform for innovators. Working across boundaries and sectors, these innovators would come tochangemakers.com seeking idea refining and collaboration, and in turn create strong communities of action.This vision for Changemakers will involve engaging the other parts of Ashoka in developing an integrated modelof action and value.

Responsibilities

Envisioning Ashokas Changemakers at full potential, and executing the growth plan

Securing investment (through Changemakers existing fee-for-service model), as well asfoundation funding for powering a steep growth phaseLeveraging all other Ashoka programs powerfully to maximize value

Manage program operations including budgeting, reporting and other administrationissues.

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Ashokas Full Economic Citizenship team focuses on Economic inclusion of the low-income communities. FECworks with Hybrid Value Chains (HVCs), which is a new operating framework for transforming markets byleveraging the strengths of business and social actors. Ashoka pursues HVCs to end the exclusion of two-thirdsof the world's populations from global markets and to catalyze business, social and government actions thatwill create the enabling conditions for everyone to become a Full Economic Citizen. FEC in India has launched

the Housing for All Initiative that aims to build an ecosystem foraffordable housing. Presently, there is a demand for 26 million newhomes in India and out of which over 90% is for sub-1 million Rupeehousing. Ashoka engages the for-profit developers to work withCitizen sector organizations (CSOs) along with bringing together retailfinance providers, architects and project finance providers to increasethe supply of such housing. The pilot projects in Ahmedabad, Gujarathave created over 2,000 new homes for the low-income sector andthe team continues to grow these pilots across cities presently. Tolearn more, please visit www.ashoka.org/fec


Ashokas FEC - Housing program is seeking an entrepreneurial leader to join the India team and replicate theprojects and program to its full potential. Presently the program needs to scale across various states of Indiaand eventually encourage replication to meet the growing demand for affordable housing. The position involvestravel to represent FEC team in national and international events. Ashoka takes a neutral role in bringing togetherthe various stakeholders for creating affordable housing, but at the same time takes an active role in mentoringand working with each of the stakeholders. The person needs to understand the nature of business and at thesame time involves the community aspects while enabling creation of such affordable housing.

Responsibilities

Market research, solution design and implementation/scale up plan

Engaging decision makers from all stakeholders to pioneer the scale up of HVC applicationsthroughout India

Creating and implementing a structure required to sustain and grow the affordablehousing solutions throughout India

Systematizing and spreading the learning generated by India experience in closecollaboration with the FEC team

Represent FEC in public events and market spread of the HVC concept

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Ashoka: how have you created the Changemakers and Globalizer Programs?

Changemakers was first a print magazine and then an online magazine that contextualized stories of individualsocial entrepreneurs in the framework of broader social change principles. This Ashoka's depth and breadthmade it easy to extrapolate how change happens, and market this knowledge broadly. However, when the OpenSource movement gained traction in the software world, and the Wikipedia showed how a global communitycould collaborate to build knowledge, I thought -- why not open source the knowledge frameworks drawn fromthe social entrepreneur community for refining by any innovator around the world? This led to the reincarnationof Changemakers as an online platform that assembles the entire ecosystem of change -- innovators, investors,

enthusiasts and end users -- to solve specific problems framed byinvestors. By leveraging the knowledge in Ashokas network ofinnovators, Changemakers helps its clients identify and frame theright questions to solve any social challenge, and invites innovators torespond to the challenge through open, friendly collaborativecompetitions. In future, Changemakers aims to be the centralplatform that any innovator can use to refine ideas and findcollaborators.

The Globalizer was born out of the questions - how can you introducethe social sector to globalization in the absence of traditional marketforces that enabled this in the for-profit sector? Can you invent apermanent, self-adjusting architecture that serves that scaling

function? And can that leverage the globalization process that business has already been through? The AshokaGlobalizer attempts to create new market mechanisms by linking the supply of investible global social changeled by social entrepreneurs committed to making their work a world standard, to demand from globallysuccessful business entrepreneurs and corporations who are eager to enhance the changemaking element oftheir core businesses on a global scale. See more: www.ashokaglobalizer.org

Ashoka: Why is Ashoka the right place for entrepreneurs like you?

Ashoka is a wonderful place to innovate because of colleagues who are generous with their creativity andconnections, the networks that Ashoka's connected to, comprising some of the best business and socialentrepreneurs in the world, and the institutional culture of changemaking that bridles at the slightest hint ofbureaucracy.

A former journalist who served as Research Director and Executive Director of ManekaGandhi's national Indian news magazine Surya from 1979 to 1982, Sushmita served as

Ashoka's country representative for India from 1989 to 1997. During that time, she also helped Ashoka launch its new programs in Latin America and direct its Europeanfundraising efforts. She founded Changemakers in 1992, which she evolved from a

magazine for social entrepreneurship to an online platform for open source problem- solving. In 2008, Sushmita created the Globalizer Program that aims to leverage Ashokas network of social and business entrepreneurs to link initiatives ready for global scale. She also served as a President of Ashoka and continues as a member of Ashokas Leadership

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