UN Women, UK Scholarships, Leadership Prog (Kenya), Virgin Aus + more 🥤

Plus all the social innovation jobs, fellowships, funding, leadership opps you wont find in one place except here ✨

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Skye Riggs
October 01, 2024

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Hey there!,

Need an adventure? 🌏️ this update includes jobs, conferences, fellowships (w $$$) and scholarships that can take you to Kenya, Berlin, USA, UK, Denmark & China… or just work from anywhere! Don’t miss opps from leading social enterprises and impact orgs like Echoing Green, the Obama Foundation, UN Women Australia + more. Scroll on down, or just login, if you wanna skip straight to it.

Plus New ‘Steal this tactic’ ⏩ Because getting there faster will enable us to have more impact and more self-care time. Seems like a vibe. We’ll be diving into questions and importantly, tangible tactics, to help you navigate your impact journey. What is a portfolio career? and what does it look like to hire a future-focussed candidate? How do you stand out as this candidate? How do we use AI and not automatically get wiped from an assessment process. This edition: How to add years of experience to your resume (without it taking literal years) and lateral job hunting. Don’t be fooled. This isn’t just for early career folk.

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🔥 Ripple’s Hot Opportunity Picks

*We’re Matchmaking on several of these. Make sure your profile is complete and feel free to reach out to us directly if you’re curious, considering applying or have questions.

🐝 Humans of Purpose: Digital Marketing Executive (Flexible)
The team at Humans of Purpose are dedicated to making employment more accessible for people experiencing barriers to workforce participation, particularly women survivors of domestic violence. Their innovative model is breaking down barriers to employment by delivering high-impact and efficient digital marketing solutions to purpose-driven companies. Digital Marketer looking to amplify your impact? This one’s for you.

💸 Echoing Green: Global Fellowship 
This globally renowned Fellowship includes a comprehensive program to build and grow leadership skills and develop the strategies needed for ideas to thrive, expert support and a stipend over 18 months (100,000 USD).

☀️ Climate for Change: Board Roles
Help provide governance support to this community organisation that’s driving deep and effective action on climate change. Using a a ‘Tupperware party’ style model of small gatherings in people’s homes, their unique model allows both deep engagement and exponential growth.

🎓 Gates Cambridge: Scholarship
Join a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship selects outstanding scholars, providing them with financial and non-financial support at one of the world’s leading universities and facilitating community building at and beyond Cambridge.

☀️ Australian Youth Climate Coalition: Operations & Finance Manager
Are you ready to leverage your logistics, organisation skills and passion for supporting people to build our movement for climate justice? Become an invaluable part of increasing the impact and reach of the AYCC, helping ensure they have the systems and processes needed in order to deliver high quality impact. 85k, provide flexible working hours + more benefits.

🌏 Reach out or apply in app: First Nations Engagement Associate 
We’re helping a well-established Foundation with a history of backing social innovation find a Match for their First Nations Engagement Associate role. If spreadsheets, collabs and/or justice (bonus points for research/skills in public health) are your vibe - this could be for you. If you’re interested, or know someone that would be great, please reach out to me directly for a discreet discussion.

🇺🇳 UN Women: Board of Directors
Help lead and raise funds for UN Women programs working to empower women and girls across the globe. Your contribution will help ensure women and girls are protected from violence, are able to access educational and economic and leadership opportunities, and that women’s voices are heard in every facet of society.

More community and high-impact member opps below.

⏩ Steal this tactic

Are you still applying for jobs based on the job title? [Read: this is me trying very hard not to call this section… ‘Do you actually need to spend 20k+ on Masters to get a job?’] Because even though the answer is a hearty ❣️ probably not ❣️, what nerdy nerd doesn’t love the idea of spending 2 years going deep on a topic..? 🤓📚💛 And we all know the world needs some critical thinking rn. But I digress.

If you’re specifically thinking about things you can do that help you with that good ol’ goal of getting a job. like soon. Requires skills, productivity and results.

In the past few months I’ve spoken to countless founders and hiring leads and they often have a similar challenge.

“we need someone that can do [insert job title] but it’s more than that…”

all of the founders and hiring leads - 2024

And I proceed to chat to them about looking out for:

  • transferrable, adaptable skills & experiences

  • demonstrated ability to get results in different contexts

  • demonstrated attitude or work style like being proactive and a creative problem solver (ie. adaptable).

And it’s not just me.

A recent survey conducted by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) revealed that 87% of employers prioritise skills and experience over formal degrees when evaluating potential hires, especially in sectors like tech.

And it has got me thinking. Are you still applying for jobs based on a title? Building a port folio career isn’t just about working in different industries. It’s about focussing on how you can leverage your skills (as opposed to job title) to get a job done.

For example, we’ve been working with a number of organisations to recruit for roles with varying job titles, but they essentially require similar skills such as communications, creative problem solving and stakeholder engagement.

This is obviously not an exhaustive list. But if you’re looking to accelerate your impact career, developing these skills on top of your existing expertise can take you into almost any role; from grant advisor or community growth leader to chief of staff, policy analyst, diplomat, founder or impact strategist.

⏩ Steal this tactic: Ditch linear ladders. Think laterally about what jobs you apply for.

Got a career goal? what job(s) could help you grow your experience towards this, while also leverage your existing skills and experience? i.e. if you’re a communications professional, how could you leverage this to build community while also learning community organising & campaigning along the way?

⏩ Steal this tactic: How to stand out in a pool of candidates with the same quals. Add ‘years’ of experience to your resume without it taking literal years.

Micro skill development (ie. learning to do something, not just know about it) is also a top way to add “years of experience” to your resume. After-all, ‘years’ is often just a proxy for ‘we need you to be adept at a bunch of things’ that back in the day may have taken years.

Courses are a great way to do this, but another way is through other experiences where you take action, build a network and can generate results outside of a job.

1 Get involved helping organise or run an event or gathering in your sector (this can be time bound volunteering, so you can blend it with other life priorities). 🔥 Bonus: This also opens up new networks

2 Up skill with in-demand micro-credentials and then implement them in a time-bound project that gives you tangible results to point towards 📈 This also demonstrates initiative and self motivation.

3 Grow your contextual experience through a national or international delegation, network, fellowship or forum. There are many funded programs and digital networks to join that can help you get better at what you do and help demonstrate your ability to apply your skills in a different context (while contributing to a better world) 🌏 Bonus: This can help show you have a global outlook, even if you haven’t worked specifically in an international context.

Check out our ‘Growth Opps’ section that can help you unlock or leverage this skillset

And if you’re applying for jobs right now, remember to consider jobs based on skills required to get the job done, as opposed to just the job title🧋.

Should we be going deeper on this? ‘The Ripple MBA on how to get a job without an MBA’? 📨.

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Rippler Shouts: Opps to Join Forces 🔗 

Alongside Fellowships and Board roles suitable for more experienced folk that are levelling up their game, there are SO MANY great growth opportunities for people under 30 that are open right now. Login for more but here are three from our very own Ripplers that we don’t want you to miss!

  • 🪧 How do you strengthen democratic participation when the trends are heading the opposite direction? Just ask long time Rippler Lucy Skelton (and 60+ of her closest mates/people that are ready to do something). Lucy recently launched FORE; a non-partisan, youth-led social enterprise that is creating Australia's first free, online Solutions Library of 1-page policy briefs to drive meaningful change through evidence-based policy briefs. They’re also focussing on promoting public engagement in policy-making, combating misinformation, and bringing public policy back to the people. So obvs we are pumped to get behind this. And you can too - they have a number of Growth roles live on Ripple. Go join this epic team!

    The FORE team launching their Solutions Library at Parliament House in Canberra

  • 🌐 Our mates at Young Australians in International Affairs are looking for a Communications Manager to join their team. If you’re passionate about international affairs and want both broad and specific experience in this sector then we highly recommend checking this out.

  • 🎉 Interested in the Aus/Indonesia relationship? Join Rippler (+ Career Lab grad) Anastasia and apply to the annual Conference of Australian and Indonesian Youth, which brings together 30 young leaders from Australia and Indonesia together.

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Did you miss these?

  • 🌄 Young Professional Fellowship Brazil (funded - closed 2 days ago)

  • 🌐 World Bank Young Professionals Program (closed 1 day ago)

  • 🍃 Jobs like Community Engagement Pro @ US Asia Centre, Full Stack Engineer at Orygen (Mental Health) and Comms and Digital Innovation Director @ Amnesty.

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