Deadline: 9-Dec-22
The WomenLift Health has launched the “2023 India Leadership Journey”, a 12-month program to provide talented mid-career women leaders in health with the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.
The program imparts contextualized tools & frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in global health face today.
Themes
Leadership Projects fit into one of four themes:
- Centering women and girls in health
- Catalyzing institutional change
- Optimizing pathways to leadership
- Building integrated & resilient health systems.
Rules
There are only 4 rules for the Leadership Project:
- It should focus on improving outcomes at the intersection of health and gender equality, or take a gendered lens on a global health issue.
- It should leverage your leadership skills.
- It should be within your scope of control or influence, but also stretch you beyond your day-to-day work requirements.
- You should be passionate about it.
Elements of the Journey
- VirtualLearning
- Learning Touchpoints are facilitated, virtual group sessions. Cohort members explore leadership frameworks, research & tools in highly interactive learning touchpoints and workshop-style sessions focused on dynamic practice. The touchpoints focus on personal & professional growth, relevant topics and priorities for health leadership, as well as their Leadership Projects. These sessions allow the cohort to share with and learn from each other.
- Virtual Mentoring
- Effective women leaders are championed by a network of strong supports, including that of mentors. WomenLift Health identifies senior-level leaders from different backgrounds, health sectors, and disciplines to serve as mentors to the cohort. Mentoring groups, comprised of several cohort members and one mentor, are grouped based on complementary backgrounds and professional trajectory. Cohort members will be able to rely on their mentor as a technical and career resource during the Journey.
- Virtual Coaching
- Having a personal leadership coach is critical in helping navigate change and adapting to new challenges on the path towards leadership roles.
- In-Person Residencies
- The ‘Leadership Immersion’ is a 3-day experiential convening that takes place a few months into the Journey. Through dynamic discussions and hands-on exercises, cohort members enhance their skills, apply them to real-world examples, and reflect on lessons learned.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman.
- Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (Your work and partnerships serve populations at the national or regional level in India and may include practicing public health, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, supporting service delivery, or managing teams/departments or projects/grants in public health.)
- Are a mid-career leader: Possess sufficient years (10–20 years) of experience in public health.
- Are an Indian National and reside and work within India.
- Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey.
WomenLift Health requires participants to be living in the India Standard Time (IST) time zone for at least 75% of the program as WomenLift Health believes time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to engage with your peers within and outside of the touchpoints.
For more information, visit https://www.womenlifthealth.org/southasia/india/2023-application/