Ideas Lab Director.
We are looking for an extremely passionate, innovative, and curious individual to join Sola as the director of Afghanistan’s first ever Ideas Lab. The Ideas Lab is a first of its kind incubator where ideas - no matter how crazy, ambitious, or incomplete - come to live.
The Ideas Lab will constantly push the limits of what is considered feasible in Afghanistan, by requesting innovators to come up with solutions to some of the most complex problems faced by the country. It will act as both a scientific laboratory and a library documenting the history of Afghan problems, attempted solutions, and related research on the subject.
The Ideas Lab Director should be a relentless optimist, someone who always looks forward with hope when they are in conversations about Afghanistan. They shouldn’t be afraid to ask daring and bold questions that may be passed off as overly ambitious. They don’t believe in the word “impossible”. Does this sound like you?
Responsibilities:
Use research resources in the programming branch to curate an extensive library of social issues in Afghanistan, attempts to alleviate the issue from both the private and public sector, documented failures in solving the problem, and/or successful attempts
Help summit participants find relevant information and history on the problem(s) they are attempting to solve
Document all social innovations to come out of the Sola Summit, including the innovators and strategic partnerships that enabled it
Document ideas for social innovations that come out of participants but are never pursued
Send Your Resume:
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