Youth Years Leader (Europe)
For a general introduction to Ashoka and how this leadership role fits into the European and global Ashoka work, see the broader context and overview text further below.
Over four decades of work, Ashoka has distilled four essential changemaking elements. Its mission now is to ensure that every person has an opportunity, from childhood, to master them. We realized that these changemaking skills are now as necessary as literacy was in the Industrial Age. They are essential for living and working in our fast-changing world.
At Ashoka, we believe the following elements are essential for living and working in our fast-changing world:
- Conscious Empathy: The ability to be aware of and understand our own, other individual’s 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.
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 these four changemaking elements.
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 prioritize 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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Everyone A Changemaker in Europe
We are looking for extraordinary leaders. Ashoka’s vision is Everyone A Changemaker (EACH). We want the world’s most influential organizations to commit to working in ways that activate the potential for every individual to contribute for the good of all – i.e., to be changemakers.
We are recruiting three extraordinary leaders to lead our efforts to help influential organizations embed EACH as their core purpose. These individuals will join Ashoka’s global leadership group and report directly to Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton and Europe Diamond Leader Marie Ringler.
This document is written for experienced leaders who might be interested in one or more of these full-time staff roles, or who may wish to nominate someone.
Ashoka is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for every person who walks through our doors. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Ashoka celebrates and embraces diversity.
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