WomenLift Health 2026 Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey for emerging women leaders. (Fully Funded) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline:  18th September 2025, 11:59pm CAT

Applications are actually open for the 2026 WomenLift Health Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey. The absolutely funded, 12-month WomenLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey is designed to offer proficient women leaders in well being with the secure area to discover their genuine management by means of vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and various community which fosters a robust sense of belonging, instruments and methods for enhancing their voice, presence, and affect – all of the whereas being supported by a strong group of friends, mentors, and coaches. The program imparts contextualized instruments and frameworks to deal with the person, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in international well being face right now.

Participants have interaction in two in-person experiential studying residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), along with digital studying touchpoints, digital group mentoring, digital one-on-one teaching classes, and importantly, a self-directed Health Leadership Project – all of the whereas being supported by their Leadership Journey neighborhood and specialists within the well being sector.

The Leadership Journey is a transformational studying and improvement expertise that brings collectively mid-senior profession women working throughout a number of disciplines, fields, and sectors in well being. This Journey is geared toward creating the mindset shift wanted to resolve complicated challenges that we face in international public well being right now.

The 2026 WomenLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey will embody 30 women leaders in well being working in Southern Africa.

Eligibility Requirements
You are eligible for consideration for those who meet all of the next standards:  

• Identify as a girl
• Mid-Career Leader: has 10-25 years of labor expertise and/or identifies as somebody in mid-career of their establishments
• Are a citizen who resides and works throughout the following 10 nations: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• Work in a job that focuses on public well being coverage, apply, and/or analysis (your work and partnerships serve populations on the nationwide degree in your nation of residence or Southern Africa regional degree and will embody practising public well being in hospitals and well being facilities, producing analysis and innovation, creating or implementing coverage, and managing groups/departments or initiatives/grants.)
• Demonstrate fluency and confidence in each written and verbal English communication

• Program Duration: March, 2026 – February, 2027
• Format: Hybrid (each digital and in-person parts)*
• Cost: Free (all program prices, together with journey and lodging, are coated)

Benefits

Hybrid Learning

Learning Touchpoints are facilitated, digital and in-person group classes. Cohort members discover management frameworks, analysis & instruments in extremely interactive studying touchpoints and workshop-style classes targeted on dynamic apply. 

Virtual Mentorship

Effective women leaders are championed by a community of sturdy helps, together with that of mentors. 

Virtual Coaching

Having a private management coach is vital in serving to navigate change and adapting to new challenges on the trail in the direction of management roles. 

In-Person Sessions

The ‘Leadership Immersion’ is a 3-day experiential convening that takes place a couple of months into the Journey. Through dynamic discussions and hands-on workout routines, cohort members improve their expertise, apply them to real-world examples, and replicate on classes realized.

Program Dates

The 2026 Southern Africa Leadership Journey will happen from March 2026-February 2027.  All touchpoints are necessary to attend whereas the JourneyPLUS occasions are non-obligatory. The in-person residences involving journey embody the 3-day Immersion (26-28 May, 2026) and the 2-day Lift-Off (17 & 18 February, 2027).

Application Process:

Please permit 2–3 hours to finish the application in a single sitting. You might save your progress and return at any time. An entire application should embody:

1. A present CV or resume,
2. A letter of advice,
3. An outline and description of a well being management undertaking you propose to pursue throughout this system, ought to your application achieve success.

Application Timeline:

• Open Application Period: Application interval closes on 18 September, 2026 by 11:59pm CAT
• Notification Period: We will notify candidates of their acceptance standing in January 2026.
• Acceptance & Pre-Orientation Period: The 30 accepted candidates might be requested to substantiate their participation by February 2026, after which we’ll start pre-Journey onboarding.
• Leadership Journey Launch: Orientation commences the week of 04 March, 2026.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WomenLift Health Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey