Acumen Fellowship in West Africa

Deadline: 20-Jul-21

Applications are open for Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and organization-builders from both public and private sectors model a new type of leadership grounded in hope and dignity.

The Acumen Fellowship is an intensive leadership development program for individuals who are building the solutions to tackle the toughest problems of their time.

The Acumen West Africa Fellows Program brings together exceptional leaders from across West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia) who are daring to embrace the difficult journey of social change. Over the course of the year, the Fellows will come together to learn with–and from–each other. As a deeply bonded cohort, they will engage with a curriculum that is based on practical skills and character, geared towards action and grounded in the value of moral leadership. After they finish the first year of the Fellowship, the Fellows join their global community of more than 800 Fellows.

The Acumen Fellowship Program in West Africa exists to empower role models who are tackling issues of poverty and injustice in West Africa.

The Fellowship has 3 objectives:

• To amplify new voices who have a deep understanding of the challenges being faced by their people and the region.
• To build a diverse community of thinkers and doers that drives change across sectors, disciplines, and geographies.
• To develop leaders with the capacity to work across lines of difference.

Eligibility Criteria

Their Fellows are emerging leaders who come from diverse cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds and can be found tackling problems of poverty or injustice in early- stage social ventures, non-governmental organizations, government, community-based organizations or the private sector.

Their Fellows program:

• Is for individuals who are currently leading, or are an integral part of building an organization or initiative that exists to eradicate poverty and are actively changing the systems they operate in. They work full-time on this initiative and typically fall in one of the following trajectories:
• Social entrepreneurs who have launched or lead their own social change initiatives (non-profit or for-profit).
• Social intrapreneurs who are running a social change initiative within an existing organization (private or public sector).
• Organizational builders who are an integral part of building a social change organization, part of building a social change organization, but do not play a founding role.

For more information, visit https://www.acumenacademy.org/fellowship/wa