Good4Trust.org is founded to create a global community of prosumers to support ethical business that strive to minimise their ecological and social footprint. The goal is to create a prosumer economy as an alternative to profit maximising consumer economy. The platform is fully functional and operational in Turkey with more than 8000 prosumers and 33 producers live and many more producers in the pipeline to open up their shops in the bazaar.
The fellow will be expected to translate or have the Good4Trust.org translated into Armenian, will form a Council of Seven of Armenian opinion leaders to advise the project, contact and ensure the application of a minimum of 10 producers from Armenia to be accepted by the council, built and populate social media channels, and have registered 1000 prosumers, and then launch the site in Armenia, and have it running fully operational for 1 month. Based on performance at the end of fellowship the person might be given full ownership with a franchise contract of the platform to run in Armenia.
EXPECTED PROFILE
- Sincere concern for the natural and social state of our planet;
- Entrepreneurial mindset and desire;
- Self-motivated and determined;
- Ability to read and understand Turkish and/or English;
- Basic internet, social media and writing skills.
CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The fellow will be expected to put 40 hours per week into the project, however fellowship activity hours and days will be flexible. Public holidays will be off days. Holidays can be negotiable based on achievement of project milestones.
Location of the fellowship will be primarily in Istanbul with travels to Ayvalık, Cunda and İzmir.
PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP
8 months from October 2016 to June 2017. 2 months will be necessary to create the Armenian site, 5 months will be the preparations for the launch, and 1 months of actual operation, so in total 8 months will be necessary to complete the project, to be ready to continue in Armenia.