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Position Title: Program Coordinator Southern Africa
Location: Major cities in Botswana South Africa Namibia Zambia Malawi Lesotho Eswatini and Zimbabwe
Type: Fully remote
Reports to: Akhona Tshangela Southern Africa Director
Hours per week (average): 40 (fulltime)
Our Vision and Mission WomenLift Health envisions a world where diverse accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision we seek to expand the power and influence of talented midcareer women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change for gender equality in health leadership. We work in North America South Asia East Africa and Southern Africa and continue to explore expansion to other regions.
Our Work Established in 2019 we work to advance equality in health leadership through a range of actions at the individual institutional and societal levels. This includes a Leadership Journey which focuses on equipping midcareer women the tools along with peer mentor and coach support to successfully use their voice expertise and leadership for impact. It includes pushing conversations and partnerships with senior leaders in health institutions taking steps to prioritize gender equality. It also includes supporting/convening global conversation about the importance of womens leadership amplifying the voices of national and global health leaders including at the biannual WomenLift Health Conference.
Our Culture and Values We are building a diverse entrepreneurial team of people who bring unique cultural and technical perspectives and experiences. We welcome resultsoriented problemsolvers of any nationality race gender sexual orientation age and disability. We are a growing organization that is committed to building a culture with our partners that values:
Position Summary
WomenLift Health is seeking a Program Coordinator to work under the direction of the WomenLift Health Southern Africa Director to contribute to implementation and administration of programmatic functions to achieve the objectives of WomenLift Health.
The Program Coordinator will work closely with the Southern Africa Director the next level manager and other members of the small and nimble globally distributed WomenLift Health team to contribute to designing building and implementing the systems and processes to efficiently track and support the operations of the WomenLift Health Southern Africa training program (The Leadership Journey) for midcareer women leaders in public health in Botswana South Africa Namibia Zambia Malawi Lesotho Eswatini and Zimbabwe. The Southern Africa hub plans to launch one Signature and One Thematic Leadership Journey in 2025 each with 30 women for a 12month duration and may scale up to include additional Journeys in the following years. The Thematic Leadership Journey in Family Planning and Contraceptive Access will be launched jointly with East Africa including women leaders from both regions in the cohort. More details about the Leadership Journey can be found here.
The Program Coordinator should be a selfstarter with a strong work ethic someone who pays close attention to detail and takes initiative. They should deeply value WomenLifts mission and cherish human connection and relationship building. They should have an eye to constant improvement and streamlining of systems and processes related to the Southern Africa Leadership Journey. The ideal candidate should be able to work adeptly both independently and in a team. WomenLift team members feel closely aligned with our values and enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment with a diverse set of teammates from around the world.
This recruitment is for 1 fulltime (100% FTE) position.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Education Experience Knowledge Skills and Ability
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (REQUIRED):
VALUED AND NONESSENTIAL EDUCATION EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY
Additional language preferred but not required
Background in public health gender equality leadership development or related field
How to Apply
Hiring Statement
WomenLift Health is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF) a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative publicinterest projects and grantmaking programs. NVF is committed to attracting developing and retaining exceptional people and to creating a work environment that is dynamic rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVFs work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners respecting the full spectrum of race color religious creed sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin political affiliation ancestry age disability genetic information veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
WomenLift Health intends to hire the selected candidate employment via a PEO (Professional Employer Organization)/host partner in South Africa or other southern African countries. Candidate must live and be authorized to work in Botswana South Africa Namibia Zambia Malawi Lesotho Eswatini and Zimbabwe.
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