Description Position at Ashoka
Ashoka Belgium is hiring!
We are offering you a unique opportunity to be involved in the
social entrepreneurship sector
COMMUNICATION & COMMUNITY INTERN
Time commitment: 6 months agreement (renewable), full-time
Starting date: September 2023
Agreement type: โConvention dโImmersion Professionnelleโ or \"Contrat de stage\"
Location: Ashoka Belgiumโs office - Impact House, 20 Rue Joseph II, 1000 Brussels
with possibility of home working
Report to: Romain Gustot, Community & Fundraising Manager
Online and offline trainings on communication, management, entrepreneurship,
system change, new leadership, venture, wellbeing, etc.
MAIN ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Ashoka is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic intern to join its Belgian office, a person
with a proven commitment to social change and a solid understanding of social innovation.
The intern will assist the Belgian team with key communications campaigns, helping with
marketing materials, social media and newsletter content and co-organising events.
The successful candidate will have excellent writing & communication skills in English and
French, strong organizational, time management and multitasking skills, and will be social-
media savvy, self- motivated as well as a strong team player.
This is a great opportunity to experience working in the not-for-profit / social
entrepreneurship sector and take on considerable responsibilities.
EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION (70%)
Oversee the Social Media communication (content, planning, posting) and engagement
(messages, comments, interactions): Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin Twitter (Optional:
Youtube, TikTok);
Develop contents strategy: source, curate and create rich content for Ashokaโs social media
channels, e.g. video, image and audio content. Tell our Fellowsโ stories & Ashokaโs history;
Design and develop marketing materials for all Ashokaโs work, programmes and events;
Work on Ashoka Belgiumโs website: make recommendations on the next steps, support with
content copywriting, storytelling and editing;
Launch external communication newsletter;
Define a Public Relations Strategy: basic toolkit for the pool of medias we could work with.
EVENT AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT (20%)
Organise events and follow-up;
Support the team in strategic guest list management;
Lead and coordinate the logistical delivery of events โ including online events;
General support of the local teams in creating and implementing programmes and
projects: content (PowerPoint presentation), logistics, writing.
ADMINISTRATIVE (10%)
Complete certain administrative tasks relevant to the Programmes (e.g. database
management on Salesforce) and necessary for the smooth running of the team;
Maintain and build contact database.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL
Proficient with Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
Proficient with social medias: Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter;
Familiar with design tools (image and videos): Canva, InDesign, iMovie, or others;
Must be creative within her/his scope of work and very resourceful in problem solving;
Keen to develop and create communication material for Ashoka BE;
Fluent in English; Proficient in French and Dutch.
HIGHLY DESIRABLE
Demonstrated track record in producing high quality written materials;
Able to communicate clearly and efficiently with diverse audiences;
Able to work productively, proactively and independently, on own initiative;
Highly organized and detail-oriented;
Strong team player.
NICE-TO-HAVE
Relevant professional experience in fundraising or communication.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Ashoka has a rigorous screening process for hiring staff at all career stages. All applicants for all
positions must possess the following qualities along with the appropriate degree of experience:
Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship: is 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 Everyone A Changemakerโข: understands and believes the
Everyone A Changemakerโข vision at a good level. To be able to innately โgetโ 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: has the ability to work efficiently and respectfully in
teams, putting organizational/team goals first. Understands how individual, groups, and
societies work and engage effectively in savvy, subtle, honest ways.
Ethical Fibre: has exceptionally strong ethical behaviour. Is self-reflective and has strong
empathy skills. Trustworthy.
Self-Definition: believes in own ability to contribute meaningfully to most important issues
facing the sector at the global level.
HOW TO APPLY:
Applications (CV + cover letter) should be sent via Jobvite.
The sooner you apply the better. We will review applications on a rolling basis.