WomenLift Health 2025 East Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program for mid to senior career women

Application Deadline: October 14th, 2024

Applications are now open for the 2025 WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program. The Signature Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid to senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health. This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today.

In this fully-funded, 12-month Leadership Journey, WomenLift Health provides 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 program imparts contextualized tools and frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in public and global health face today. 

Participants engage in two in-person experiential learning residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), in addition to virtual learning touchpoints, virtual group mentoring, virtual one-on-one coaching sessions, and importantly, a self-directed leadership project – all the while being supported by their Leadership Journey community and experts in the health sector.

Program Dates

• The 2025 East Africa Leadership Journey will take place from March 2025-February 2026. Before applying, check the dates and timing of the sessions to ensure you can attend all touchpoints. 
• All touchpoints are mandatory to attend aside from the Journey PLUS events, which are optional.
• The in-person residences involving travel include the 3-day immersion (10-12 June, 2025) in Kenya and the 2-day Lift-Off (18-19 February, 2026) and 1-day Alumnae event (20 February, 2026, in Tanzania)

Eligibility Requirements

You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:

1. 1. Identify as a woman
   2. 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.)
   3. Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health
   4. Reside and work within Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania or Ethiopia
   5. Must be a national of one of the six countries
   6. Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey

Benefits

• Cost: Free (all program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered)

Timeline:

• Open Application Period: Application period closes on October 14, 2024 by 11:59pm EAT.
• Notification Period: We will notify applicants of their acceptance status in December 2024. 
• Acceptance & Pre-Orientation Period: The 30 accepted candidates will be
  • asked to confirm their participation by late January 2025, after which we will begin pre-Journey onboarding.  
• Leadership Journey Launch: Orientation commences the week of March 11, 2025.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WomenLift Health East Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program