Ashoka: Professional Development and Learning Opportunity-Extended Deadline

Ashoka’s Senior Search Task Force is looking for a team of 8 - 10 college seniors and graduate students who want to develop a critical professional skill of navigating a networked world and a unique framework to understand entrepreneurship. Interested applicants should be able to commit to one full day (8-10 hours) each week from Feb. 2 - March 27, 2015 at Ashoka’s global office in Arlington, VA.

As part of the Senior Search Task Force, the students will map the networks of entrepreneurial individuals and organizations and discuss their innovative ideas and impact. The student team will be divided into five different teams based on their regional interest (Latin America, Europe, Africa, South Asia, and North America).

Interested applicants should send a resume, a list of three regions of interest, and a response to the mapping exercise below (no more than one page) by Thursday, Jan. 29 to Nidhi Singh at nsingh@ashoka.org.

Finalists will be selected for a 20 - 30 minute conversation on Friday, Jan. 30.

Mapping Exercise:

Identify five people in the network of Bill Drayton, Founder and CEO of Ashoka, that you believe are the most entrepreneurial. Pick one of the five individuals and describe his/her innovation and impact.

About Ashoka

Thirty-five years ago, Ashoka changed the framework of the social sector, by introducing the idea that there is nothing more powerful than a bold, new idea in the hands of an exceptional entrepreneur. We have built a fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs– people who catalyze an irreversible pattern change through an innovative idea and encourage others to do the same. Our network of Fellows is now over 3000 innovators strong and spans 85 countries. In addition, the field and profession of Social Entrepreneurship has grown into a global force.

We’re setting out to change the frame again. We are living in a time of rapid change. We are moving from a world of silos and hierarchy to one of fluidity and many leaders. Only institutions that organize differently and individuals who develop different skills will be ready for the world that awaits them. Ashoka is leading a paradigm shift toward a world where everyone is a changemaker: one where society clearly sees a new paradigm and what is required to thrive in a time of accelerating change.

Interested applicants should send a resume and a list of three regions of interests by Thursday, Feb. 5 to Nidhi Singh at nsignh@ashoka.org.