Deadline: 14 October 2024
The Womenlift Health Signature Leadership Journey is a fully-funded, 12-month program designed to provide mid-career women the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.
The Leadership Project is an opportunity for each member to design and lead an effort that taps into their expertise, network, passion, and creativity.
Participants enter the Journey with a project idea and develop a Theory of Change, stakeholder analysis, and implementation plan with the guidance of their mentor, coach, and African health experts. The implementation phase of the project begins in the latter half of the Journey. Finally, at the Leadership Lift-Off event, each cohort member presents a summary of their project’s development and early outcomes.
Implementation of the project does not have to be fully complete by the end of the Journey and will likely continue beyond it. The 2025 East Africa Leadership Journey will take place from March 2025-February 2026.
Themes
- Leadership Projects fit into one of four themes:
- Centering women and girls in health.
- Catalyzing institutional change.
- Optimizing pathways to leadership.
- Building integrated & resilient health systems.
Elements
- Hybrid Learning: Learning Touchpoints are facilitated, virtual and in-person group sessions. Cohort members explore leadership frameworks, research & tools in highly interactive learning touchpoints and workshop-style sessions focused on dynamic practice.
- Virtual Mentorship: Effective women leaders are championed by a network of strong supports, including that of mentors. They identify senior-level leaders from different backgrounds, health sectors, and disciplines to serve as mentors to the cohort.
- Virtual Coaching: Having a personal leadership coach is critical in helping navigate change and adapting to new challenges on the path towards leadership roles.
- In-Person Sessions: The ‘Leadership Immersion’ is a 3-day experiential convening that takes place a few months into the Journey. Through dynamic discussions and hands-on exercises, cohort members enhance their skills, apply them to real-world examples, and reflect on lessons learned.
Rules
- There are only 4 rules for the Leadership Project:
- It should focus on improving outcomes at the intersection of health and gender equality, or take a gendered lens on a global health issue.
- It should leverage your leadership skills.
- It should be within your scope of control or influence, but also stretch you beyond your day-to-day work requirements.
- You should be passionate about it.
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman.
- Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national level in your country of residence or East Africa regional level and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.).
- Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health.
- Reside and work within Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania or Ethiopia.
- Must be a national of one of the six countries.
- Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey.
For more information, visit Womenlift Health.
