Israel Country Director

Description

Position at Ashoka

Started in 2010, the Israeli office aims to build a thriving international network of changemakers – social entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial funders, and emerging innovator working together to address the hardest problems facing Israel and the Jewish world today. Currently, we have a network of nine Ashoka Fellows across the country. Now we want to take our work to the next level and build into a resilient network of social innovators and entrepreneurs across the entire global Jewish world, touching companies, universities, young people, and everyone else along the way, and addressing the hard challenges facing Israel today.

We are looking for a leader with a unique skill set to help us meet this challenge:

o  Are you passionate about driving change in Israel and the Jewish world?

o  Have you founded an organization (or a few) and scaled them up?

o  Have you built a movement or a campaign that has changed thinking on a large scale?

o  Have you brought unique major partners to work together in collaboration?

o  Are you ready for truly global impact?

We have a powerful opportunity for you:

The Director of Ashoka Israel will serve as a thought leader, team builder, partnership manager, network weaver, organization developer, and strategy lead for Ashoka’s work in Israel and the Jewish world globally. Alongside entrepreneurial team members, the Director will help develop a bold vision for Ashoka Israel in the next stage of growth and play an instrumental role in transforming it into a Changemakers Nation. The Director will also take this work to the next level and build a resilient network if Israeli and Jewish Ashoka Fellows, partners, and funders. Building partnerships and fundraising will be a key component of the work.

At Ashoka, we are not typically looking to hire someone who can just do a job. We are looking to hire someone who can redefine a job; taking it, the team, and the organization to a higher level. That means that who you are and what you’ve been compelled to do is more important than your degrees, your work experience, and the metrics demonstrating your competence.

With that in mind, our ideal candidate will:

·      Meet Ashoka’s hiring criteria: https://www.ashoka.org/en-il/engage/work-with-us/hiring-criteria

·      Have a stack record of innovating solutions and successfully bringing them to fruition

·      Demonstrate experience in significantly scaling the social impact of organizations

·      Have an ability to lead and build partnerships through influence, ideas, and exceptional communication skills

·      Have demonstrated ability in major client/partner relationship management, fundraising, and resource mobilization

·      Have strong social/emotional intelligence and proven leadership ability to inspire, enable, and integrate an entrepreneurial team with respect and collegiality

·      Have an established network in Israel and the Jewish World globally

·      Have experience in the responsibilities of an Executive Director, both in representing an organization externally, and managing internal operations

·       Understand Israel’s and the Jewish world’s diversity, current challenges, and opportunities for system-level change

·       Have a deep passion for leading work at the intersection of changemaking, Israel, and the Jewish world

The Ashoka Israel office is flexible on geography for the right candidate but must be primarily based in Israel. The candidate must be willing to travel, often internationally. The position start date is as soon as possible, with flexibility for the right candidate until March 2025.

Ashoka is the global pioneer of social entrepreneurship and changemaking.

We have built the world’s largest network of leading social entrepreneurs, with more than 4000 Ashoka Fellows spanning 90+ countries. These leading social entrepreneurs create new, pattern-changing ideas to solve seemingly intractable challenges and act as key role models and recruiters for changemakers. They point us to the next frontiers of change in society and inspire the ideas that shape Ashoka’s strategies.

More recently, Ashoka is driving the “Everyone a Changemaker” vision, in which social organizations, companies, municipalities, youth organizations, educational institutions – in short, all aspects of society are engaged to give everyone an opportunity to be a changemaker and drive change towards a better world.

To learn more, watch a short video about Ashoka and read A Team of Teams World by our founder and CEO, Bill Drayton.

See how a leading social entrepreneur changes the pattern of a field through the example of Kailash Satyarthi, Ashoka Fellow and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Keywords

social entrepreneurshipchangemakingleadershipIsraelJewish worldpartnershipfundraisingnetworksocial innovatorsentrepreneurs