Global Mutual Help Security Leader

Job Description

Job Description

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.   

• 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.  

• 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

• 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.

The US-based Leadership Group Member base salary range is $145,000 - $150,000 (based on relevant experience, skills, and qualifications), plus an annual 10% on base for performance, as well as a full range of benefits. In addition, for extraordinary institutional contributions, Ashoka may provide an award of $33,000 that vests over three years. 

Ashoka is an equal opportunity employer and invites applications from candidates regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or religion. The position is based in the global Ashoka office in Arlington, Virginia, USA. For more information, visit us at

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.