chieving today’s complex global health goals requires greater and more diverse leadership talent across sectors and countries. And yet women are an untapped talent pool, representing 70% of the health workforce but only 25% of executive positions and 5% of CEO-level positions. WomenLift Health will work with partners around the world to accelerate the advancement of talented women into senior leadership by investing in mid-career women and influencing the environments in which they live and work. WomenLift Health is about action – action taken by women, men, organizations and societal leaders that, together, add-up to transformative change. Mission Our mission is to expand the power and influence of talented women in global health and catalyze systemic change to achieve gender equality in leadership.

Summary

This position will ensure the engagement of FP partners, appropriate tailoring of the established leadership curricula to reflect FP priorities and issues and the design of a select number of FP specific sessions including speaker’s events. This position is contingent upon award from the donor.

Responsibilities

Leadership Journey

• Provide support to the Director to engage partners, select candidates, and launch the Family Planning (FP) and Contraceptive Access Leadership Journey and its related activities.
• Work with the facilitator to support the integration of FP and Contraceptive access language and stories to contextualize the leadership training curricula.
• Support the Director to stay connected with evolving challenges and priorities in the FP and Contraceptive Access, especially as these may apply to the leadership training program
• Provide concrete support to the implementation of the Leadership Journey, including serving on the selection committee, identifying FP speakers and mentors, and potentially supporting the development of leadership projects of the women in the cohort.

Partner engagement

• Create a database of partners in the FP and Contraceptive access sector in East and Southern Africa.
• Support Partner engagement in the thematic leadership cycle through the process of cohort nomination, selection, launch and the leadership journey offerings.
• Support a Working Group comprised of FP and Contraceptive access partners, donor, and Women Lift Health staff. The objective of the Working Group is to engage, get guidance on the design and develop the buy-in of these key partners for the FP leadership program.

Monitoring Evaluation and Learning

• Work with SPM and MEL Lead to design, implement a plan to track data/results related to FP and Contraceptive access thematic leadership journey
• Support the SPM in data collection, analysis and development of conclusions and recommendations to further strengthen thematic leadership journey implementation.
• Document and maintain an inventory of successful tools and approaches for FP and contraceptive access
• Support development of abstracts and presentations for journals and conference for the cohort and Women Lift Health

If Interested, Please Submit a Proposal And Include

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