The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)
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Ashoka Arab World
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Arab World Framework Change Chief
Background:
Ashoka is the worldwide pioneer of social entrepreneurship. We’ve got constructed the world’s largest community of main social entrepreneurs, with 3,800 Ashoka Fellows spanning 80+ international locations. These main social entrepreneurs create new, pattern-changing concepts to unravel seemingly intractable challenges and act as function fashions and recruiters for the following era of changemakers. They level us to the following frontiers of change in society and encourage the concepts that form Ashoka’s methods.
The world is at present going through a historic second. For generations, society has adopted a siloed, hierarchical strategy to problem-solving outlined by repetitive effectivity. However this strategy is falling quick on the subject of the quantity and complexity of the shared issues we now face. So, the foundations of the sport, and certainly, the sport itself, are altering – change is the brand new regular, and essentially the most fluid programs and groups are those that thrive. One rule is paramount: everybody can and should be empowered to drive optimistic change. That is the “Everybody A Changemaker” imaginative and prescient that Ashoka is working towards, a imaginative and prescient that’s our greatest hope for constructing a world the place issues now not outrun options.
Ashoka is searching for a Framework Change entrepreneur with a powerful background in technique growth to make Ashoka’s “Everybody a Changemaker” imaginative and prescient a actuality.
The Framework Change LGM for Arab World will grapple with questions together with:
- How do massive concepts catch on broadly throughout society?
- What can we be taught from our extraordinary community of Ashoka Fellows about establishing new changemaking patterns and decision-making constructions?
- How can we speed up towards the Everybody a Changemaker world, prioritizing key abilities reminiscent of empathy-based ethics, creativity, teamwork, and management?
- Who’re the individuals and organizations in and past the ecosystem that we have to interact within the dialog?
As Ashoka sees it, an EACH world is one during which everybody has the capability and alternative to contribute and to create optimistic change. In an EACH world, everyone seems to be highly effective, everybody has a voice, everybody has entry to related and crucial sources, and everybody can thrive. Techniques of oppression and hierarchy haven’t any place in an EACH world as a result of no teams ought to dominate or exploit others — together with within the realm of changemaking. On this world, the programs that perpetuate inequity have been dismantled and rebuilt to allow equal entry to alternatives and embrace the unimaginable vary of views, narratives, and lived human experiences.
As a Management Group Member, the Arab World Framework Change Chief may have the chance to:
- Lead the Arab World team-of-teams construction to boost Framework Change regional outcomes by means of programs design and evaluation;
- Enhance regional technique and perception capabilities to tie all regional actions into world actions and extra successfully take part within the world Ashoka mission and imaginative and prescient;
- Interact world accomplice organizations to leverage the facility of Ashoka’s community, insights, and framework into “new sport” enterprise fashions, constructions, and messages;
- Co-create a world storytelling motion that encourages the sharing of tales of exemplary “new sport” habits, together with breaking down partitions between sectors to kind problem-solving partnerships and enabling passive victims and onlookers to re-identify as lively changemakers;
- And co-lead strategic decision-making that impacts Ashoka’s progress globally to leverage Ashoka’s huge community in 80+ international locations.
Desired Expertise and Expertise
The Arab World Framework Change Chiefought to have a monitor report of making new concepts which have resulted in a systemic change in his/her subject. He/she ought to consider deeply within the energy of social entrepreneurship and perceive Ashoka’s Everybody A Changemaker™ imaginative and prescient. He/she must also have the next traits/expertise:
- Multiyear monitor report of creating revolutionary options and efficiently bringing them to fruition;
- Demonstrated means to develop main consumer and accomplice relationships;
- Distinctive capability for thought management and team-of-teams organizational management;
- Confirmed means to guide by means of affect, concepts, and insights;
- And robust social and emotional intelligence and management qualities conducive to inspiring, enabling, and integrating an entrepreneurial staff with respect and collegiality.
And they’ll meet Ashoka’s core hiring standards:
- Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship: Demonstrates a monitor report of taking artistic initiative and possession (e.g., founding a corporation or firm, beginning a motion, or re-shaping the work of an current group).
- Understanding of & Perception within the Everybody a Changemaker Imaginative and prescient: Aligns with Ashoka’s imaginative and prescient of an EACH future at a intestine stage; demonstrates broad, inquisitive mind and pondering patterns that join the dots between historic tendencies and present social contexts.
- Emotional and Social Intelligence: Has the flexibility to effectively and respectfully lead and work in groups.
- Moral Fiber: Possesses exceptionally robust moral habits.
- Self-Definition: Assumes that altering the world in massive methods is their path in life.
Ashoka is an equal alternative employer and invitations purposes from candidates no matter race, gender, sexual orientation, age, incapacity or faith. The place is predicated within the regional Ashoka Arab World hub workplace in Cairo, Egypt. For extra data go to us at https://www.ashoka.org/getinvolved/team
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