Ashoka Seeks Atlas Corps Fellow From India




Ashoka is a global association of social entrepreneurs from 70 countries and growing. Social entrepreneurs are individuals who possess innovative yet practical ideas to bring about far-reaching social change at the regional or global scale. Bill Drayton created the term social entrepreneur and founded Ashoka over 25 years ago in 1980. Beginning with the first Ashoka Fellows elected in India in 1981, Ashoka has grown to an association of over 1,800 Fellows in over 70 countries on the world’s five main continents. During its first decade in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Central Europe, Ashoka focused exclusively on launching leading social entrepreneurs and helping them succeed. But in the 1990s as the citizen sector evolved and grew, Ashoka responded with a wider range of programs and initiatives to deal with the sector's growing needs. Ashoka grew as well, tripling in size from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1999 to 2002. Today Ashoka is in its third period of rapid growth, electing record numbers of Fellows in 2006 and expanding its programs in Western Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East. Along with our global network of Fellows, business entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors, academics, and journalists, Ashoka is now working collectively to ensure that social entrepreneurs and their innovations continue to inspire a new generation of local changemakers to create positive social change. (For more information, please visit Ashoka’s website at www.ashoka.org.)

The ideal Fellow candidate for Ashoka should:
  • Believe strongly in the ability of people to lead social change.
  • Be entrepreneurial, creative, self-motivated and a problem solver.
  • Have 3-8 years of relevant experience, especially as a leader.
  • Preferably, have experience in citizen sector networks.
  • Have strong conceptual and analytical skills.
  • Have strong project management and problem solving skills.
  • Have strong interpersonal, relationship building, and facilitation skills.
  • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
  • Be collegial and comfortable with working in teams.
  • Have strong ethical fiber.
The best candidates are self-starters, trying to solve problems and change the world. Leaders who have started their own endeavor, or significantly transformed the operations of an existing institution fit well in the Ashoka culture. Ashoka is growing and is looking for creative, entrepreneurial people to lead major initiatives worldwide. Ashoka is looking for people who demonstrate the highest ethical standards, a deep sense of collegiality, and a strong self-image to create positive change.