Job offer: Social Entreprepreneurship Volunteer

You will be working with the in-house social innovation lab of iDE called Innovation Lab located in Asia and Africa, with a mission to practise, coach, and promote design and innovation processes as a co-creative, power-shifting problem-solving approach to address complex systemic challenges by understanding user needs, motivations, and behaviours and developing new interventions to power entrepreneurs.

The iDE Innovation Lab also functions as a strategy and innovation consultancy in focus areas of water, sanitation & hygiene, climate change (clean energy, conservation), agriculture, and maternal health & nutrition. Over the years, we have worked with a portfolio of international development organisations such as Care International, Hellen Keller, USAID, UNICEF, World Bank Group, Plant and Food Research, Save the Children, and SNV.

iDE is a global non-profit organisation spanning offices in 14 countries, employing over 1,000 people directly, and indirectly enabling income and opportunities for our rural audience of focus through market-based approaches across different sectors. Find out more about iDE here !

PROJECT OR DIVISION iDE Innovation Lab

REPORTS TO iDE Innovation Lab Senior Design Manager

BASED IN Based in Cambodia or Work remotely (Can commit to 6-month work)

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for a Social Entrepreneurship Volunteer with some international work experience to join a team of designers, researchers and changemakers worldwide. Ideally, you are comfortable working on innovation and entrepreneurial projects, and most importantly, bringing innovation methodologies, ideas and ways of working to a broader team. The current fifteen-person team at the iDE Innovation Lab have been working together for many years, so this is a rare opportunity to join a well-established team working on a broad range of projects with a social innovation focus in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

• A designer with a business/marketing background or experience working as an entrepreneur
• Have experience in working on digital solutions (UX Design, AI, ICT tools)

IDEALLY, WE WOULD LOVE TO FIND SOMEONE THAT:

• Is optimistic, passionate, dynamic, and curious
• Is a fast learner and very hands on
• Is open and happy to share new methods and ideas with the team
• Is an autonomous problem-solver with a mind full of ideas ready to be tested
• Brings a positive attitude to the team and doesn’t take themselves too seriously
• Is driven by a social mission
• Has cultural sensitivity and respect towards unfamiliar contexts
• Has a flexible mindset, is agile and adaptive, and at the same time takes into account their capacity, deadlines and limitations
• Has excellent time and people management skills
• Can embrace uncertainty and manage stress
• Will challenge the status quo to create creative solutions

Duties

• Strengthening and creating strategy for social entrepreneurship (70%)
• Identifying the opportunity and creating strategy to support the social entrepreneurship within the Innovation Lab
• Bringing forward the existing entrepreneurship-related initiatives such as venture game plans… etc
• Compiling all the entrepreneurship-related work at the Innovation Lab
• Strengthening and working collaboratively with other teams and departments on women entrepreneurship
• Contributing to improving entrepreneurial skills of the iDE Innovation Lab team
• Creating and/or introducing processes, frameworks and tools of social entrepreneurship or venture development to the team
• Contributing to multiple end-to-end social innovation projects (20%)
• Advising the peers throughout the design process and supporting on the project from the entrepreneurial perspective
• Inspiring and coaching your peers within iDE to apply entrepreneurial and innovation methodologies and approaches in their projects and work
• Contributing to proposal writing (10%)
• Contributing to proposal writing as needed for both iDE Innovation Lab and iDE Cambodia
• Representing either iDE Innovation Lab or iDE Cambodia in the presentation/pitch to the potential funders/clients
• Working on “To Be Determined” assignments (other unexpected opportunities arise)

Requirements

• Have at least 1-2 years of working experience related to entrepreneurship
• Have experience of working across diverse cultural environments, or remote areas
• Have experience in innovation management techniques (sprint/agile project management, lean, stage gates)
• Possess experience in managing and leading projects (building a project plan, meeting deadlines, and delegating tasks)
• Have experience in managing and/or coaching other team members
• Have experience in developing strategies and interventions
• Be a tech savvy and possess skills in using Slack, Google Workplace, Asana and other project management softwares
• High proficiency in English (listening, reading, writing and speaking)