Description

Youth Years Intern for Ashoka Indonesia

About the Role

Reports to: Ashoka Southeast Asia Diamond Leader

Start date: ASAP

Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

About Ashoka

Ashoka is on an audacious mission – to create a world where everyone is a changemaker i.e. a world where everyone has the agency and skills to make a positive change in their families or communities. It is only in such a world where the solutions will outrun our social problems. With its global network of over 3.500 leading social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows), 10,000 youth ventures, 180+ changemaker schools, and 30+ changemaker campuses – as well as a community of 20,000+ innovators on Changemakers.com – Ashoka works with strategic partners to empower people with the skills to create solutions for the good of all in a world of constant change.

About the Role

• Support the implementation of youth engagement strategy for the Everyone A Changemaker movement
• Support the team in relation to co-creation with deliverables between Ashoka and other partners
• Help delivering program to foster leadership and social innovation among youth
• Coordinate with team in the process of search, selection, and engagement process of Ashoka Young Changemakers in Indonesia
• Organize outreach initiatives to raise awareness about the potential of youth as changemakers and address diverse social issues in society
• Collaborate to identify schools network, media, grassroot communities, government, and youth forums to promote changemaking among youth
• Foster a supportive and inclusive environment that encourages youth to express their ideas and collaborate effectively
• Maintain program effectiveness, collect data, and report project status to evaluate outcomes and make data-driven improvements
• Support impact measurement
• Support in monitoring, tracking and reporting feedback from partners.

• Required Skills and Experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• Able to work on own initiative, proactively and independently and under minimal supervision
• Less than 1 year experience, both voluntary and paid, in program development and implementation or any works in social sector
• Experience in working with diverse youth populations and understanding their needs and challenges is an advantage
• Strong organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to set clear guidelines and deadlines
• Comfortable managing multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced, non-stop environment
• Personal and professional interest in different areas of Ashoka programs, zest for learning and leveraging the latest trends, channels, and tools
• Strong interest in accelerating the movement building ecosystem across Indonesia.

Personal Qualities

Ashoka has a rigorous screening process for hiring staff at all career stages. All applicants for all positions must possess the following qualities along with the appropriate degree of experience:

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.

Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship: 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.

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 behaviour. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.