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Global Mutual Help Security Leader

ArlingtonOn-siteFull-time

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Senior leader responsible for designing and executing Ashoka’s Mutual Help Security program across metro, regional and global levels, fundraising, and coalition-building to protect social entrepreneurs and changemakers.

About this role

Ashoka’s vision is of a future where everyone has the lifelong power to contribute to a rapidly changing world. If everyone is a changemaker and contributor, humanity’s new solutions can keep pace with the new problems, and a more equitable future can be achieved. We are a passionate, entrepreneurial team across more than 100 countries working together to achieve this vision. 
Ashoka’s Integrity Team aims to help Ashoka balance entrepreneurial risk-taking and operational risk management in pursuit of its Everyone a Changemaker vision. The Leadership Group Member for Mutual Help Security will champion new ideas and systems that leverage mutual security among Ashoka Fellows and our community. The ideal candidate is a creative and entrepreneurial leader experienced in designing mutual-help security measures at the metro, regional and global levels, in fundraising, and in relationship- and coalition-building, with a strong commitment to Ashoka’s vision.  

What You'll Do:

  • Develop and lead a purpose team as a field catalyst for Mutual Help Security, disaster response, and protection of social entrepreneurs and changemakers worldwide.   
  • Create a working model/concept that turns risks to changemaking into opportunities in cooperation among social entrepreneurs/changemakers, as well as cooperation with leaders in security, human rights, think tanks, and intergovernmental and corporate actors. 
  • Build a global community of strategic partners for the field, securing multiyear private funding and resource partners. 
  • Lead a global team and core components of the program. 
  • What You Bring:

  • 15+ years of experience in entrepreneurial and operational leadership in complex, high-risk and politically volatile environments 
  • Strong fundraising experience especially with private foundations, family funds, and corporations
  • Exceptional communication skills with proven ability to lead through influence and ideas 
  • Demonstrated ability to manage deliverables in a fast-paced, unstructured environment 
  • Strong problem solving, conceptual, and organizational skills 
  • Track record of highly successful creative entrepreneurship, with a history of generating new ideas and executing them to system-changing impact 
  • Demonstrated ability in innovative revenue & resource generation, major client/partner relationship management, resource mobilization, and balanced budget management.
  • Openness and flexibility to think across fields and geographies 
  • Strong “weaving” skills to be able to bring different parts (teams, resources) together for common purpose 
  • Strong networks in the fields of security, legal and human rights
  • 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.
  • Skills

    Budget ManagementCoalition BuildingCommunications LeadershipComplex Environments NavigationConcept DevelopmentCross-functional LeadershipField Catalyst LeadershipFunding StrategyFundraisingGlobal Program ManagementGrants ManagementHuman RightsNonprofit LeadershipProgram DesignRelationship ManagementRisk ManagementSecurity PolicyStakeholder EngagementStrategic Partnerships

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