Ashoka - Youth Years Leader (Europe) - UK

You will lead Ashoka's efforts across Europe to reform the institutions that shape how young people grow up to ensure every young person leaves secondary school having mastered four essential changemaking elements:

• Conscious Empathy: The ability to be aware of and understand our own, other individuals' and groups' perspectives, and to use that understanding to recognize patterns over time and guide one's actions to contribute to the good of all.
• Sophisticated Teamwork: The ability to contribute and thrive in a fluid ecosystem of teams that mobilizes around a problem or opportunity.
• New Leadership: The capacity, as a leader, to envision, enable, and ensure that every player is an initiator and sees the big picture.
• Practicing Changemaking: The process of creating a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society rather than to private individuals.

Specifically, you will create strategic and deeply rooted partnerships with ministries of education, public school systems, teacher unions, educational publishers, teacher training schools, and other relevant organizations to put changemaking at the core of their strategies. A key ambition is to quantifiably influence the education systems and youth-focused media to prioritise graduating changemakers through new curricula and syllabi and related teaching materials.

You will not do this alone. Ashoka has a wealth of proven tools to build strategic partnerships. For example, one core program – Ashoka Young Changemakers (AYC) – involves a rigorous selection process that engages directly with young people and supports them in becoming changemakers through the transformative experience of launching and leading their own community-minded ventures.

Success in the first year in this role would: (a) agree to two partnerships with influential players and (b) advance at least one place-based model that is tracking to decreasing direct support from Ashoka. Within five years we would expect to see progress on two metrics that illustrate what societal paradigm change looks like in practice: (1) the percentage of secondary school students in Europe who self-identify as changemakers, and (2) the proportion of school leaders who define success by the extent to which their schools are graduating changemakers.

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