WomenLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 18, 2025

Applications are open for the LadiesLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey 2026. The absolutely funded, 12-month LadiesLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey is designed to supply gifted girls leaders in well being with the protected area to discover their genuine management by vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and numerous 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 robust group of friends, mentors, and coaches. The program imparts contextualized instruments and frameworks to deal with the person, organizational, and societal challenges that girls leaders in international well being face right this moment.

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

Global Fellows – those that efficiently full the Leadership Journey – can be part of a lifelong community of allies at native, regional, and international ranges who proceed to help one another and new cohort members and advocate for ladies’s management.

Cost

• The program is free for chosen individuals. All program prices, together with journey and lodging, are coated.

Eligibility

You are eligible for consideration in case you meet all of the next standards:  

• Identify as a lady
• Mid-Career Leader: has 10-25 years of labor expertise and/or identifies as somebody in mid-profession of their establishments
• Are a citizen who resides and works throughout the following 10 international locations: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• Work in a job that focuses on public well being coverage, follow, and/or analysis (your work and partnerships serve populations on the nationwide stage in your nation of residence or Southern Africa regional stage 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 tasks/grants.)
• Demonstrate fluency and confidence in each written and verbal English communication

They require individuals to be residing within the CAT (+/-1 hour) time zones for at the very least 75% of this system as they consider time zone compatibility is crucial to your potential to take part on the touchpoints and to interact together with your friends inside and out of doors of the periods. LadiesLift Health is dedicated to deciding on numerous cohort members, representing totally different sectors (public, personal, academia, NGO, philanthropy), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds, and so on.

Application

• Open Application Period: Application interval closes on 18 September, 2026 by 11:59pm CAT
• Notification Period: They will notify candidates of their acceptance standing in January 2026.
• Acceptance & Pre-Orientation Period: The 30 accepted candidates can be requested to verify their participation by February 2026, after which they are going to start pre-Journey onboarding.
• Leadership Journey Launch: Orientation commences the week of 4 March, 2026.

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For extra info, go to WomenLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey.