Call for Applications: India Leadership Journey 2025

Important Dates:

• Post Date: September 10, 2024
• Deadline Date: October 25, 2024

Donor Name: WomenLift Health
Grant Size: Not Available
Category: Events

Program Overview:

The fully funded 12-month India Leadership Journey is designed for talented mid-career women leaders in health. The program provides:

• A safe space for exploring authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection.
• An inclusive and diverse network to foster a strong sense of belonging.
• Tools and strategies to enhance voice, presence, and influence.
• Support from a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.

Participants will be provided with contextualized tools and frameworks to tackle challenges faced by women leaders in global health. The program includes:

• Two in-person experiential learning residencies: Immersion and Lift-Off.
• Virtual learning touchpoints, group mentoring, and one-on-one coaching.
• A self-directed leadership project.

The program emphasizes diversity, equity, inclusion, and intersectionality, representing women with diverse lived experiences.

Values:

• Authentic Leadership: Lifelong exploration of self and purpose.
• Inclusive Leadership: Exploration of power, privilege, unconscious biases, and systemic prejudices.
• Impactful Leadership: Inspires gender equality and better health outcomes.
• Strategic Leadership: Leverages influence to facilitate institutional change and impact global health.

Focus Areas:

The Journey focuses on eight essential leader competencies:

1. Leader Identity: Clarity of self and leadership impact.
2. Confidence and Courage: Reliance on personal capabilities.
3. Relationship Building: Inclusive development of relationships.
4. Developing Others: Fostering team capacity and dynamic leadership.
5. Ecosystem Mindset: Embracing transformational thinking and cultural intelligence.
6. Leader Agility: Visionary leadership with versatility in decision-making.
7. Resilience: Energy and mindset for effective leadership.
8. Leadership Presence: Recognized and trusted within the organization.

Eligibility Criteria:

• You identify as a woman.
• You work in public health policy, practice, and/or research in India, serving national or regional populations.
• You have 10-25 years of experience in public health.
• You are an Indian National, residing and working in India.
• You are proficient in English (written and verbal).

For more details, visit Womenlift Health.

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