This is an opportunity to work with an Ashoka Staff
This is an unpaid, volunteer opportunity
About The Affiliated Organization
Founded in 1980, Ashoka pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship. We are now the largest association of leading social entrepreneurs in the world, a network of 4000 Ashoka Fellows in 97 countries at work creating systemic change on the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time. We find, support and collaborate with our Fellows to help scale their solutions across nations and continents and work with a wide range of partners to create an "Everyone a Changemaker" world, one in which we all can find and develop our power to contribute to meaningful change for the good of all.
For more information, please visit www.ashoka.org
Job Description
Ashoka is piloting an expansion of our volunteer program that will provide our staff (and eventfully our Fellows) with specific professional consults and project based participation in ten of the most highly requested areas of need, communications being one. We are calling volunteer participants on these ten teams Ashoka Professional Support Partners. We are looking for experienced communications specialists to join this elite communications team of 10-12 similarly skilled comms professionals from different regions of the world to help Ashoka staff with strategy, messaging, campaign design, templates, and more.
As an Ashoka Support Partner your expertise will be promoted to staff over the course of two months and if there is a need that meets your availability, they will request an introduction. Until that time your name and contact details will be held confidentially. The goal of this pilot is to remove many of the barriers that prevent a very busy staff and our mission driven Fellows from recruiting the volunteer support that they need. As Steve Jobs once said upon introducing the iMac, "People don't know what they want until you show it to them." With showing them exceptional professionals who are willing and available to help we aim to jump start a wealth of program support that will enhance and propel programs and social impact. Please let us know today if you'd like to join us!
Volunteer Logistics
Estimated hours required per week: Flexible and Variable depending on project
The estimated duration of the project is: 1-3 months
This position is Virtual (Remote)
Language Requirements
English
Required
Desired Skills And Experience
- At least three years of experience in Communications, Marketing, Digital Media, Content development, and related work.
- One business and one personal reference
Familiarity / Experience With
- Core content and design tools such as Office suite: Advanced use of Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 (Docs/Word, Sheets/Excel, Slides/PowerPoint) for briefs, reports, and decks.
- Design tools for collaborating with designers.
- Presentation and survey tools for audience and employee feedback.
- CRM marketing platforms for campaigns, segmentation, and automation.
- Marketing automation/CRM and Salesforce knowledge to manage contacts, track touch points, and connect campaigns to outcomes.
- Internal comms platforms for segmented internal newsletters and announcements.
- Social, web, and PR Social media management experience for content, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting across platforms.
- CMS to update site content, landing pages, and basic blog publishing.
- PR and media tools for media lists, monitoring, and press distribution
- Analytics and data tools, web and campaign analytics to read performance and build dashboards.
- Comfortable with data handling and spreadsheets for tracking and doing light analysis.
- Collaboration, project management, and AI collaboration and project tools for managing campaigns and content calendars.
- Knowledge hubs to maintain playbooks, FAQs, and messaging libraries.
- AI‑assisted tools for using AI in copy, design, and analytics
