Volunteer Communications Professional for Ashoka Sport For Changemaking with Ashoka
About the role
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 93 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.
Job Description
Sport for Changemaking Communications Campaign Development and Delivery
Ashoka’s Sport for Changemaking team is looking for a self-driven, collaborative, highly professional individual to deepen our communications and storytelling capabilities. As a volunteer, you will be responsible for the development of external–facing communications campaigns and the creation of communications deliverables – tapping into existing research within our team and the broader Ashoka ecosystem.
- Ashoka believes in empowering its volunteers to take on their own initiatives while supporting ongoing projects.
- As a volunteer, you will contribute to:
- Using written and visual communications materials, advancing the Ashoka Sport for Changemaking movement in the broader sport for ecosystem
- Key Elements Of The Volunteer Role May Include
- Writing and designing social media content, website copy and a monthly newsletter
- Translating research findings and interviews into exciting and thought-provoking communications materials
- Co-develop thought-leadership and other content pieces with the Ashoka Sport for Changemaking team and outline a dissemination strategy
- Working closely with Ashoka teams to ensure the knowledge and learnings are presented in a way that can attract new partnerships and collaborations on areas of strategic need.
Volunteer Logistics
Estimated hours required per week: 6 to 10 hours per week
The estimated duration of the project is: 6-12 months
This position is Virtual (Remote)
Language Requirements
English
Desired Skills And Experience
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Professional experience a plus.
- Conceptual thinker/big ideas thinker
- Ability to work independently; meet deadlines and targets in a collaborative, creative working environment
- Experience and interest in sport for social change field
- Comfortable with social impact trends and innovations
- Experience synthesizing/summarizing insights
- Ability to conduct desk-based research
- Writing experience with short form articles or blogs
- Comfortable using LinkedIn as a media platform
- Proficiency in and access to design platforms (Canva, Figma, Adobe Illustrator, etc.) a plus
- Proficiency in English.
- Ability to communicate in other languages (Spanish, French and/or Portuguese) a plus
- Great attention to detail