Global Health Corps Africa Leadership Accelerator 2025-2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Global Health Corps Africa Leadership Accelerator 2025-2026. The GHC Africa Leadership Accelerator is a 9-month, hybrid program designed to strengthen the management and administration expertise of early to mid-profession well being professionals ages 21-35, working throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Africa Leadership Accelerator Fellowship is an efficient match for prime-potential, early-profession public well being leaders dedicated to rising their private {and professional} growth expertise. Public well being is a broad subject, and the GHC is happy to contemplate candidates throughout sectors – native well being ministries or state businesses, authorities businesses, universities, neighborhood-based mostly and non-governmental organizations, and personal sector employers.

Program Components

The Africa Leadership Accelerator is designed with a hybrid studying method together with digital and in-individual studying alternatives. The program is totally free to fellows—all digital programming, journey to retreat areas, lodging prices, and meals for the in-individual retreats will likely be lined by GHC. Fellows ought to count on to dedicate 6-8 hours per 30 days to this system to get probably the most out of it. 

Once a fellow, at all times a fellow. After finishing the management accelerator, fellows be a part of GHC’s lifelong world community of 1,200+ alumni and proceed to develop as leaders by means of GHC’s strong alumni program. The 9-month fellowship runs from September to May. Participation in all parts of the fellowship listed beneath is obligatory until in any other case famous.

All fellows will take part in:

• Leadership Academy Workshops (~3 hours/month, constructed into the workday)
• Individual stretch & coalition initiatives
• Global and nation-based mostly in-individual retreats
• Executive Leadership Coaching classes
• Quarterly supervisor check-ins
• Learning circles with fellow cohort members
• Final challenge shows
• Alumni mentorship
• GHC employees help and check-ins

Learning Topics:

• Understanding Personal Values & Beliefs
• Leading with Integrity & Transparency
• Human-Centered Design
• Design Thinking
• Generative AI as a Tool for Development
• People Management
• The Science & Art of Receiving Feedback Well
• Roles in Social Change
• Managing Up
• Advocacy & Coalition Building
• Applying Systems Thinking to Problem-Solving & Decision-Making
• Project Management Fundamentals
• Conflict Resolution & Negotiation Skills
• Strategic Planning & Goal Setting
• & a lot extra!

Eligibility

• Be age 21-35 by September 1, 2024.
• Be a citizen of Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, or Zambia.
• Be presently employed full-time in a non-scientific public well being position for no less than six months on the time of application. 
• Be presently employed by a public well being group working in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, or Zambia and has expressed written help to your participation in this system.
• There aren’t any particular schooling or coaching necessities to be eligible for participation.

Application

• You’ll be nominated by one of many following:
  • A consultant out of your group (HR skilled, Executive Director, Program Manager, and so forth.)
  • Your supervisor or supervisor
  • A colleague or peer (out of your present or earlier employer)
  • A GHC alumni
  • A GHC fellow
  • Other
• An e-mail with a hyperlink to the application portal and details about the application course of will likely be despatched to nominees inside 3-5 enterprise days of nomination type submission.
• You’ll submit:
  • Your CV
  • Program references
  • Demographic info.
• You’ll present brief responses to quite a lot of prompts so we will study extra about you.
• A letter of advice out of your supervisor is required to be thought-about.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to GHC Africa Leadership Accelerator.