Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme 2026 – Call for Nominations – YOA

Deadline: September 21, 2025

Nominations are open for the 2026 Tutu Fellowship Programme. On a continent blessed with excellent younger leaders, the Archbishop Tutu Fellowship Programme attracts the extraordinary younger folks that it does.

The flagship programme of the African Leadership Institute is the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme. Each 12 months, round 25 excessive-potential people from throughout Africa are awarded the celebrated Archbishop Tutu Fellowship, following a rigorous aggressive choice course of. The Awards are aimed on the cream of the continent’s future leaders and particularly goal the subsequent era of Africa’s leaders in all sectors of society, between the ages of 30 and 39. 

The ATLP is a multi-faceted management studying expertise, whose focus is African management in a Global context. It is a 5-month part-time programme run in partnership with Oxford University’s Said Business School. The world-class school and visitor audio system are drawn from each Africa and outdoors, and the programme incorporates modules in Africa and at Oxford, reflecting the African/Global duality of the management that shall be required of future African leaders.

At the tip of the programme, profitable members will graduate as Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellows (“Tutu Fellows”) and shall be admitted into the AFLI community the place Fellows can work together, have interaction in dialogue on management and strategic points, and organise conferences and civic engagements. With the assistance of our sponsoring companies, the community is a platform to problem, encourage, and help Fellows to turn into energetic leaders in society.

Benefits

The ATLP offers members with an intensive studying and broadening expertise on the ideas and application of management, and an OPPORTUNITY to discover the problems and particular traits of management in Africa, in addition to the worldwide challenges and dimensions of management. The programme locations emphasis on studying and experiencing, not instructing, providing a wide range of formal and casual studying alternatives to boost the management capabilities of the candidate. At the tip of the ATLP, the Fellow may have achieved:

• A self-shaped view of management ideas and values which might be most acceptable to the long run African/world context and their very own circumstances, which would be the mannequin they’ll apply to their very own management endeavours
• Membership of an elite community of leaders all through Africa and past, dedicated to main change and improvement on the continent.
• A breadth and depth of understanding of management, constructed upon tutorial analysis in addition to the sensible experiences of profitable leaders, and the complexity of calls for on leaders.
• A broader understanding of how management capabilities within the world area, and the complexity of points dealing with world leaders.
• A world perspective on the challenges and application of management inside an African context, and confidence within the position they’ll play as a frontrunner in each Africa and the worldwide area
• Practical expertise of main a challenge by which they’ll have enhanced the capabilities or circumstances of at the least 25 fellow Africans.
• Interaction with African and world leaders
• A breadth of understanding of the regional and world forces and points that may affect the choices and behaviours of future leaders in Africa.
• A broad, systemic, strategic and visionary method to addressing management points
• Practical expertise and suggestions from working as part of a crew of excessive-calibre people
• A greater understanding of their very own strengths and weaknesses as a future African chief in a worldwide surroundings, and an enhanced self-consciousness of their management capabilities and magnificence
• They shall be a extra assured and wiser chief, with experiences, instruments and insights that may allow them to “play” in each the African and world arenas within the twenty first Century.

Eligibility

Preferred candidates for the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Programme (ATLP) are individuals, who, by their actions and achievements, and the values and ideas by which they conduct their affairs, have demonstrated their potential as an moral chief dedicated to contributing to constructive change and improvement of the continent. We are in search of distinctive rising African leaders – people who find themselves anticipated to be the highest stage leaders of their sphere of exercise within the subsequent 5 to 10 years if they don’t seem to be already in that place, and who’re actively engaged in making Africa a greater place to reside.

They shall be between 30 and 39 years of age.  They have to be older than 30 on 30 April 2026 and youthful than 40 years on 30 April 2026. These are laborious limits.

Candidates can come from any sector of society – enterprise, authorities or civil society. Candidates nominated and chosen for the programme should display lots of the following traits:

• Ability to Inspire others to imagine in themselves and the trigger; to liberate and empower others to succeed
• Committed to serving their constituency (stakeholders/trigger) and neighborhood, forward of self-gratification
• Confident, optimistic, with excessive expectations and excessive vitality
• Courage to take dangers – be ready to fail; problem the established order; do issues which may be unpopular
• Determination and powerful skilled will
• High values, requirements and ethics
• Humility – chosen to guide moderately than a self-imposed chief
• Visionary, strategic and ahead pondering – main for a greater future
• Systemic thinker – skill to assimilate, simplify and channel advanced inter-related forces to benefit
• Empathy and a powerful relationship builder

Candidates have to be residents of an African nation, and have to be presently residing in Africa, or briefly positioned overseas by their employer or finishing additional training overseas or engaged on African tasks for a worldwide organisation. They ought to be dedicated to residing in Africa and to actively contributing to its lengthy-time period success. There might be some flexibility on African citizenship if the candidate has lived in Africa for greater than 10 years and is genuinely dedicated to residing on the continent. We are eager to hunt candidates who could not in any other case have entry to such a management coaching alternative.

Nomination Details

AFLI accepts just one nomination per nominee. Nominators, please check first together with your potential candidate to see if they’ve already been nominated. For people eager to be thought of, please work intently together with your Nominator to make sure a robust nomination is submitted in good time for consideration for the programme. Please learn the data on the PROGRAMME menu in regards to the programme and the choice course of. Nominators, please additionally learn the FAQs earlier than filling out the nomination kind.   

Click here to nominate.

The deadline when nominations shut is midnight South Africa time on 21 September 2025.  (This Sunday).

For extra info, go to Tutu fellowship.