Global Search Leader

The Opportunity  

Ashoka seeks an individual with a track record of entrepreneurialism, innovation, and sector-wide impact to lead on our global search for priority senior staff talent. The Leadership Group Member (LGM) for Global Search will lead a small but international Search team in developing new approaches to better source, engage and champion the most aligned priority senior prospects for global and regional roles. They will leverage decades of Talent experience to build in-roads to even more of the world’s leading innovators and changemakers to strengthen our pipeline for priority senior hires. They will also lead on broader implementation of our OneSearch approach across Ashoka’s global teams, which honours prospective candidates as whole people and re-frames conversations to identify the most mutually beneficial opportunities for future employment or collaboration. The LGM for Global Search will be a key member of Ashoka’s global senior executive team, too, working closely with other leaders to integrate core strategy and performance measurement across the organization, and creating new systems that lead to growth and greater effectiveness.  

This work will be guided by the shared belief that broader adoption of Ashoka's EACH vision requires having the right co-leadership team in place in Ashoka's global hubs including Bangalore, Jakarta, Lagos, London, Sao Paulo, and Washington, DC.  

• Innovate priority senior staff recruitment to ensure that the most aligned and entrepreneurial talent is sourced, engaged and championed 
• Implement new strategies to more successfully tap into networks of constituent groups including Ashoka Fellows, alumni and partners  
• Form new networks in and across sectors to open additional pathways for identifying and engaging priority senior talent globally 
• Leverage deep knowledge of digital recruitment platforms to maximise their benefits and more successfully meet team hiring targets  
• Collaborate with Ashoka’s Selection and Leadership Teams to ensure that a higher number of sourced priority senior talent successfully advance through organization’s multiple hiring stages 
• Build bridges with regional, thematic and core constituency teams to cultivate shared, robust approach to finding and engaging the most aligned leading innovators and changemakers 
• Organize to maximize efficiency by maintaining favorable outcomes while reducing costs in the context of best practices  
• Ensure compliance with all relevant GDPR regulations and industry standards 

• 15-20 years of related Search experience
• You have created new architecture for strategic sourcing, engagement and championing of priority senior talent in a global organization 
• Experience establishing strong relationships with leading executive search firms and successfully leveraged online recruitment platforms to meet and exceed priority senior hiring targets 
• Leadership through influence, management, and exceptional communication skills in a global team of teams environment  
• Founded your own social impact organization, scale your innovation, advanced a mission/cause through an innovation that has since changed a sector or system, or launched a movement driven in part by innovative approaches with measurable systemic impact; this work may have started as early as your student years  
• You have created successful partnerships with key actors to advance an innovation and its social impact 
• Demonstration of strong management, technical, problem solving, and organizational skills  
• You have elevated the profile of an organization, cause or mission 

• Entrepreneurial Quality: 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. 
• Understanding and Belief in the 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. 
• 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. 
• Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.

About Ashoka:

Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker. 

Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.