WIA Young Leaders Program 2025: Call for Applications from Young African Women
Applications are NOW OPEN for the 2025 WIA Young Leaders Program. Since 2021, the WIA Young Leaders Program has aimed to assist and spotlight younger African girls who’re actively contributing to constructing a dynamic, modern, and inclusive Africa.
This initiative is part of the battle for equal alternatives and permits the coaching of younger African girls leaders by offering high quality assist of their skilled careers and social development, serving to them totally understand their potential. The program boasts a outstanding community of 33 alumnae who’ve efficiently accomplished this system and at the moment are making vital strides of their respective fields.
Key Benefits
Selected candidates will profit from specialised coaching, mentorship from worldwide leaders, a enterprise journey, and vital visibility inside our community.
The WIA Young Leaders Program is totally funded for chosen candidates, protecting coaching, mentorship, and program-related actions. Key advantages embody:
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HIGH-LEVEL NETWORKING: with CEOs, ministers, journalists, public figures, achieved enterprise leaders, and entrepreneurs.
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TRAINING PROGRAM: with board coaching, media coaching, profession teaching, girls’s management, personalized coaching primarily based on particular person wants.
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VISIBILITY: by means of WIA’s communication channels and media presence.
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MENTORSHIP: Each awardee is assigned a mentor (a global chief profile).
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LEARNING EXPEDITION: within the third quarter with a enterprise journey organized in a serious world financial capital.
Who Can Apply?
All girls aged 25 to 40, born in an African nation or having dad and mom born in an African nation or having dad and mom from an African nation, are eligible.
- 25 to 40 years outdated: Flexibility potential relying on expertise degree
- Leadership abilities: Humility, empathy, resilience
- African: Born in an African nation or having dad and mom born in an African nation
- Involvement and imaginative and prescient: Involvement within the growth of the continent
- Francophone, Anglophone, Lusophone: Ideally talking a number of languages
- Self-made and Ability to tackle duties on the highest degree
Key Dates
Application Deadline
How to Apply
Selection Process
The choice course of takes place in two phases:
- an application evaluate adopted by
- an interview with a panel of specialists for pre-selected candidates.
Applicants are often notified of their standing a couple of weeks after the interview section. Exact timelines might fluctuate, so check this system web site or keep subscribed to the e-newsletter for updates.
Contact
- For extra inquiries, you’ll be able to attain out by way of contact@wia-initiative.com mentioning the identify of this system in your electronic mail.
For extra alternatives, go to the OFY web site.
WIA Young Leaders Program 2025: Call for Applications from Young African Women
