Head of Events (Part-time Volunteer)

Salary Unpaid

đź“Ť It all started with an idea of building a bridge!

Aspiring Asia is an initiative that aims to bring together Nordics and Asian countries’ young generation to connect, inspire, and empower each other in creating impactful changes.

We are a young pioneer NGO with amazing potential ahead. We are now growing our rapid forward-moving organization and looking for new driven team members to join us! 

👋 In case we haven’t met before, here’s Aspiring Asia in a nutshell:

Aspiring Asia is all about young people being in charge, collaborating and learning from each other. Aspiring Asia initiates and supports youth-led grassroot projects to create positive social impacts through adapting and utilizing Nordics’ core strengths: Entrepreneurship, Entertainment and Education. The initiative aims to spread to 48 countries in Asia to build a community of young changemakers.

Aspiring Asia supports high-quality education, facilitates sustainable development of entrepreneurship, and increases global wellbeing and happiness. Aspiring Asia, as a platform, strives to make relevant connections to develop projects in each specific country, to support scaling of successful youth-led initiatives across Asia, with the utmost support from the Nordics.

We need your help to support the young generations of Asia to take the first steps on a global scale and achieve their goals! 

đź’Ľ Key responsibilities for Head of Events:

  • Event planning, design and production while managing all project delivery elements within time limits

  • Specify staff requirements and coordinate their activities

  • Liaise with Head of Partnership and Head of Marketing in order to identify our partners' and targeted audience's needs and to promote and publicize events

  • Provide feedback and periodic reports to stakeholders (Head(s), partners, event audience)

  • Propose ideas to improve provided services and event quality

💪🏽 What we look for in you as a team player:

  • We are a truly diverse international organization, so excellent English skills, both written and spoken is a must.

  • Excellent organizational and communication skills. You will face many inquiries from your teammates, so be prepared to work in a fast-paced environment and don't get bored chatting with your teammates from Aspiring Asia and our brother sister Ambitious Africa and Adelante Americas all day long!

  • Thirst and tenacity on finding out the perfect solution to any type of questions you may come across.

  • Positivity and collaboration are the foundation of our culture, therefore the most important qualities you could bring are a positive attitude and be helpful to others. Alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much!

  • We are pretty flexible with where you work because at this stage, virtual platforms are our main playground.

🤟 What’s in it for you?

Aspiring Asia provides a unique opportunity to learn by doing while being supported by a large community of young doers, experienced entrepreneurs, the private sector, and government entities. You will get instant access to a large network of amazing people on different levels and aspects.

The reason people love to work at our NGO is making a difference and planting a good deed into the future. Our vision is to be the best youth-led movement in Nordics and Asia. At Aspiring Asia, we have a warm atmosphere and very talented people to learn from. When we work, we take it seriously, but we place a lot of value on also having fun together. Our team is our greatest asset and we are proud of our people.  

âś… You will get access to:

  • Truly international and multicultural team and network

  • Invaluable opportunity to get responsibility and play a key role in building the future

  • Role-related mentoring from the best-of-the-best

  • Volunteer experience to your CV and LinkedIn

  • Volunteering certificate

Sounds like something you want to be a part of? Contact us! 

Welcome to Aspiring Asia!!

For more information or questions please contact us at Recruit@Aspiring.Asia

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

Work life balance
Work life balance

Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.

Working at
Aspiring Asia

📍 It all started with an idea of building a bridge! Aspiring Asia is an initiative that aims to bring together Nordics and Asian countries’ young generation to connect, inspire, and empower each other in creating impactful changes. We are a young pioneer NGO with amazing potential ahead. We are now growing our rapid forward-moving organization and looking for new driven team members to join us! 👋 In case we haven’t met before, here’s Aspiring Asia in a nutshell: Aspiring Asia is all about young people being in charge, collaborating and learning from each other. Aspiring Asia initiates and supports youth-led grassroot projects to create positive social impacts through adapting and utilising Nordics’ core strengths: Entrepreneurship, Entertainment and Education. The initiative aims to spread to 48 countries in Asia to build a community of young changemakers. Aspiring Asia supports high-quality education, facilitates sustainable development of entrepreneurship, and increases global wellbeing and happiness. Aspiring Asia, as a platform, strives to make relevant connections to develop projects in each specific country, to support scaling of successful youth-led initiatives across Asia, with the utmost support from the Nordics. We need your help to support the young generations of Asia to take the first steps on a global scale and achieve their goals! In Aspiring.Asia we do projects in the following fields: - EDUCATION: Aspiring.Asia is about accessing the best education for all. - ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Aspiring.Asia is about economic and social development through Entrepreneurship. - ENTERTAINMENT: Aspiring.Asia is about engaging learners through entertainment involving simple learning strategies that revolve around fun. Aspiring.Asia seeks to provide the needs and feed the aspirations of the youth in Asia as inspired by the efforts of Ambitious.Africa and Adelante Americas. And Yisss, we are family!

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