Applications for the Global Health Corps (GHC) Africa Leadership Accelerator are open until 14 August! Discover the programme offers, eligibility and application process below.
What is the Africa Leadership Accelerator?
The Africa Leadership Accelerator brings GHC's acclaimed global health leadership curriculum to emerging public health leaders working in organisations in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. This nine-month programme includes virtual leadership academy workshops, in-person retreats, executive coaching, career mentoring and more, all while participants continue to work in their current organisations.
Benefits of the programme
As a scholarship holder, you will:
- Strengthen your leadership identity: Develop a clearer sense of your leadership strengths and weaknesses, understand how others see you, articulate your personal values, explore your role in advancing health equality and craft your leadership vision.
- Expand and leverage your networks: adopt practices to strategically broaden your network and gain critical insights to advance your leadership. Join GHC's global community of more than 1,200 alumni and advisors.
- Understand how the changes happen: use frameworks and tools to analyse the systems in which you work, understand how changes occur and develop strategies to leverage changes in the systems.
- Apply the lessons in real time: apply the lessons learnt from the Leadership Academy workshops directly to your current projects and challenges.
- Access additional resources: take advantage of GHC's webinars, additional training, networking opportunities and community impact team resources.
Programme components
The Africa Leadership Accelerator combines virtual and face-to-face learning opportunities. The programme is free for fellows, covering all virtual programming, travel, accommodation and meals for face-to-face retreats. Fellows are expected to dedicate 6 to 8 hours per month to the programme. Once a Fellow, always a Fellow - after the programme, you join GHC's lifelong global network of more than 1,200 alumni.
Programme schedule:
- Duration: September to May
- Compulsory participation:
- Leadership Academy workshops (~3 hours/month)
- Individual expansion and coalition projects
- Global and national face-to-face retreats
- Executive Leadership Coaching Sessions
- Quarterly supervisor check-ins
- Learning circles with other cohort members
- Final project presentations
- Alumni mentoring
- Support and check-ins from the GHC team
Learning topics include:
- Understanding personal values and beliefs
- Leading with Integrity and Transparency
- Human Centred Design
- Design Thinking
- Generative AI as a development tool
- People Management
- The science and art of receiving feedback well
- Roles in social change
- Managing
- Defence of rights and coalition building
- Systems thinking for problem solving
- Project management fundamentals
- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Strategic Planning and Goal Setting
Online application process and timetable
The application process assesses your willingness and ability to become fully involved in the fellowship and your suitable leadership for the GHC community. You must be nominated to access the application.
Appointment process:
- The nominees can be recommended by:
- Organisational representatives (HR, Executive Director, Programme Manager)
- Manager or supervisor
- Colleague
- GHC alumni or scholarship holders
- Once you have been nominated, you will receive an e-mail with a link to the registration portal and further instructions.
Application requirements:
- cv
- Programme references
- Demographic information
- Short answers to requests
- A letter of recommendation from your supervisor
Important dates:
- Registration open: 2nd July 2024
- Deadline for priority registration: 1st August 2024
- Application deadline: 14th August 2024
- Status notification: September 2024
- Start of scholarship: 14th October 2024
- Global Mid-Fellowship Retreat: January 2025
- End of the Country Specific Retreat programme: May 2025
Election criteria
- Age 21-35 by 1st September 2024
- Citizen of Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda or Zambia
- Currently employed full-time in a non-clinical public health role for at least six months
- Employed by a public health organisation in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda or Zambia with express support for their participation
- There are no specific education or training requirements
