Deadline: 14-Sep-21
Applications are now open for the Acumen Malaysia Fellowship to equip extraordinary individuals with the tools, mindset, and community to tackle poverty and injustice in their communities.
The Fellowship starts with a year-long leadership development programme designed to equip fellows with the character, competence and community required to tackle deep- rooted systemic challenges. During this year, Fellows remain in their jobs while taking part in a series of immersive, workshops and group discussions.
Extraordinary leaders harnessing the strength of Malaysian diversity to tackle the country’s most pressing social issues and create a more equitable future.
The Malaysia Fellows Programme is a leadership transformation opportunity nurturing a new generation of leaders with the skills and character to create lasting change. They are looking for their third cohort of Acumen Fellows in Malaysia.
The Fellowship Experience
- The programme develops your capacity to tackle long standing problems of poverty and injustice. You should expect an intensive leadership journey grounded in:
- Challenging your existing ideas to build new ways of thinking and problem solving
- Deepening your capacity to innovate and drive change by practicing essential
- leadership skills directly applicable to your work
- Cohort-based learning with diverse role models from sectors and backgrounds
- Facilitation and coaching that challenges and accompanies you in your practice
- Learning from Acumen Academy’s global community of social innovators
What makes a fellow?
Their fellows are extraordinary leaders who dare to embrace the difficult journey of social change. Here’s what they want from you—and what you can expect from your cohort.
- Entrepreneurs: Leaders of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations providing critical goods or services to the underserved.
- Intrapreneurs: Leaders who are bringing to life new initiatives or approaches within the organization. The focus is on designing, testing, incubating and implementing ideas that enable the organization to pursue its purpose.
- Organizational Builders: Leaders who play an integral role in building the organization. The focus is on building the internal blocks, systems & processes that enable the organization to pursue its purpose.
Benefits
In the Fellowship Program You Will:
- Learn to catalyse and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change at the personal, organisational, and societal levels
- Cultivate the ability to lead effectively when opposing but interdependent values are in tension
- Understand how to lead diverse stakeholders through recurring and complex challenges
- Develop the capacity to tell meaningful stories that speak across lines of difference and move others to action
- Examine your identities, values, and choices that have shaped your journey till now and cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself and your work in a broader context
- Explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical foundation of social change through text-based dialogue
- Navigate systemic problems and design more effective interventions using moral imagination
- Question your assumptions and beliefs about leading effective change
- Be supported and accompanied by a cohort of like-minded peers persevering in the process of driving social change
Eligibility Criteria
Qualified applicants are:
- Full-time working professionals who are leading or are an integral part of building an initiative that aims to eradicate poverty or injustice.
- Based in and committed to long-term social impact in Malaysia, with strong personal impact record locally.
- Ready and willing to participate in an intensive, year-long personal and professional leadership journey.
- Typically following one of the below trajectories:
- Entrepreneurship: Founding or leading a for-profit or nonprofit providing critical goods or services to the undeserved.
- Intrapreneurship: Creating innovative solutions to tackle poverty or injustice from within an existing institution by shifting its culture and building new collaborations.
- An organizational builder within a for-profit, nonprofit, or government organization: Alleviating poverty or injustice with key decision-making power but not as the founder or CEO.
For more information, visit https://www.acumenacademy.org/fellowship/malaysia