Deadline: 10-Dec-21
The Acumen Academy is seeking applications for its Acumen Spain Fellowship that is designed for individuals who are currently leading or are an integral part of building an initiative whose mission is to eradicate poverty or injustice.
The purpose of the Acumen Fellowship is to develop a community of leaders who challenge the status quo, work across lines of difference and inspire their communities to believe in a brighter future.
Acumen Fellows are part of a global community in which there are more than 900 social innovators in different countries of the world. Altogether, it is estimated that through the different initiatives led by each of the Fellows, more than eight million people are benefiting.
Their goal is to make a bigger impact in the communities they already work with and connect with people who will help them amplify that impact. They are characterized by helping to dignify the human being through their projects or social causes, by learning from failures and by having the ability to take risks even in the most difficult moments. They manage to connect and create relationships that promote change, they have the ability to put themselves in other people’s shoes and connect their social cause with a greater purpose.
The Acumen Fellows Program was born to promote people capable of generating systemic changes in a complex and interconnected world.
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
Requirements
The Acumen Fellows Program is designed for people who currently lead or are an integral part of an organization that works to generate change in their society; and that they meet the following requirements:
- Be a resident of Spain and of legal age
- Have more than 3 years of commitment addressing social problems.
- Have the ability to read and write texts of medium complexity and express themselves in Spanish; and a basic handling of the internet (to be able to be an active part of the community).
- Live in a place with telephone coverage and internet access (to be able to access the materials, follow the virtual seminars and actively participate in the community).
For more information, visit https://acumenacademy.org/fellowship/spain/