Women Lift Health Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey 2025 (Fully-funded)

WomenLift Health is expanding into the Southern Africa region and is inviting applications for its inaugural cohort of women leaders to join the Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey.

This 12-month, fully-funded program empowers women to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and self-reflection. Participants will build inclusive and diverse networks that foster belonging, learn strategies to enhance their voice, presence, and influence, and receive support from peers, mentors, and coaches. The Leadership Journey equips participants with contextualised tools and frameworks to address individual, organisational, and societal challenges that women leaders in global health face today.

The Signature Leadership Journey is a transformative learning experience that brings together mid- to senior-career women from various disciplines and sectors in health. It aims to instill the mindset shift needed to address the complex challenges of global public health issues today. This program is particularly suited for women leaders who value diversity, equity, and inclusion; who recognise the importance of integrating diverse perspectives into policy and practice; and who are eager to expand their leadership presence and influence while paying it forward to others in their organisations.

Cost of Signature Leadership Journey

• There is no cost to participate if you are selected. All program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered.

Check : U.S. MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Program 2025–2026 (Fully-funded)

Eligibility for Signature Leadership Journey

• Identify as a woman.
• Mid-Career Leader: has 10-25 years of work experience and/or identifies as someone in mid-career in their institutions.
• Are a citizen who resides and works within the following 10 countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
• 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 Southern 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.)
• Demonstrate fluency and confidence in both written and verbal English communication.

They require participants to be living in the CAT (+/-1 hour) time zones for at least 75% of the program as they believe time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to participate at the touchpoints and to engage with your peers within and outside of the sessions. WomenLift Health is committed to selecting diverse cohort members, representing different sectors (public, private, academia, NGO, philanthropy), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds, etc.

Also Check : Fully Funded Rhodes Scholarship Program in UK 2025

Application

• Open Application Period: Application period closes on 22 November, 2024 by 11:59pm CAT
• Notification Period: They will notify applicants of their acceptance status in January 2025.
• Acceptance & Pre-Orientation Period: The 30 accepted candidates will be asked to confirm their participation by 4 February 2025, after which we will begin pre-Journey onboarding.
• Leadership Journey Launch: Orientation commences the week of 26 February, 2025.

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