WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program 2025

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.

• Table of Content
• About WomenLift Health
• WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program
• Aim and Benefits of WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program
• Requirements for WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About WomenLift Health

Achieving today’s complex global health goals requires greater and more diverse leadership talent across sectors and countries. And yet women are an untapped talent pool, representing 70% of the health workforce but only 25% of executive positions and 5% of CEO-level positions.  WomenLift Health will work with partners around the world to accelerate the advancement of talented women into senior leadership by investing in mid-career women and influencing the environments in which they live and work.  WomenLift Health is about action – action taken by women, men, organizati... continue reading

WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program

Aim and Benefits of WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program

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

Requirements for WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program Qualification

• 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

Interview date, Process and Venue for WomenLift Health Africa Signature Leadership Journey Program

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.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details,visit WomenLift Health website