Description

• Lead the full selection process of new Ashoka Fellows in the region, from sourcing to international validation;
• Grown an active, collaborative and supportive network across the region to ensure a meaningful experience for Ashoka Fellows and build meaningful connections with the global Fellowship;
• Manage communication with Fellows and the knowledge aspects;
• Develop new strategies and national networks to find and support the most relevant, high-impact social innovators (Ashoka Fellows)
• Coordinate program strategies with Ashoka Southeast Asia and Ashoka Global;
• Develop partnerships to support Venture and Fellowship work in the region;
• Represent Ashoka in raising public awareness about social entrepreneurship and changemaking in Thailand
• Ensure DEI principles and safeguarding policies being carefully applied and streamlined in Thailand program strategies
• Upholding integrity and solidarity so regional teams could collaborate at ease with utmost support towards one another.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 6 years’ work experience in development sector/ social entrepreneurship.
• Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing Thai.
• Fluency in English, written and verbal, required.

• Superb writing and communications skills with strong analytical and strategic thinking applicable to social innovation.
• Intrapreneurial individual with a history of having built initiatives from zero within organizations, or started new organizations, or having changed the direction of existing initiatives based on her/his/their original ideas.
• Flexible and creative problem-solver with the ability to work and multi-task in a fast-paced and unstructured environment.
• Exceptional team player with ability to build relationships with individuals of various cultural and professional backgrounds and develop partnerships
• Comfortable working across different sectors at a national level, especially with the business and social sectors and academia.
• Must demonstrate sensitivity to, and respect for, a diverse population and be able to work with people of different backgrounds across all areas of the world
• Proactive and organized individual with strong project management skills
• Strong understanding of social issues in Thailand with a demonstrated deep commitment to social change in the region
• Capacity to understand Ashoka’s vision and work at a systems and framework change level.
• Must inspire trust and demonstrate strong ethical fiber.

• Understanding and Belief in 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 behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.