What You'll Do:
Key Responsibility:
- Co-Lead Ashoka Germany and hold overall responsibility for strategy development, governance, team development
- Recruit major donors with a focus on individual giving
- Build relationships with new leads, potential partners, surfacing opportunities for funding and collaboration incl. HNW, E2, ASN and others
- Develop and curate the engagement strategy for members of ASN and lead high-net-worth donor relationship management
- Act as key point of contact for ASN members and HNW
- Build and steward strong, trust-based relationships across all partner groups, designing engagement journeys that activate each partner’s potential to contribute to Ashoka’s vision of “Everyone a Changemaker”
We are looking for a position on change manager/ senior change manager level, to maintain, engage and recruit Germany’s Support Network of funders.
As part of the profile we envision:
- High communication skills with a variety of different stakeholders, including high networth individuals
- Ability to activate and motivate a network through 1:1 relationship
- written communication, verbal presentations and match-making skills
- At least 5-7 years’ experience in raising funds or resources of all kinds (min. 10 years professional experience)
- Low to zero resistance to ask for money
- Fast understanding of resources in the room and how to connect them to people who need them
- Project-management and event-management skills
- Experience in involving and leading the whole team in all related matters
- Knowledge of data-management tools, like Salesforce preferred
Core Criteria
- 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.