Applications are now open for the 2025 WomenLift Health Nigeria Signature Leadership Journey Program. WomenLift Health, in partnership with the Women In Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN), is launching the inaugural Nigeria Leadership Journey.
In this fully-funded, 12-month Leadership Journey, WLAN will provide mid-career women 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 Signature Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid to senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health. This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today.
Participants engage in two in-person experiential learning residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), in addition to virtual learning touchpoints, virtual group mentoring, virtual one-on-one coaching sessions, and importantly, a self-directed leadership project – all the while being supported by their Leadership Journey community and experts in the health sector.
Program Details
The 2025 Nigeria Leadership Journey will take place from June 2025 – April 2026. All touchpoints are mandatory to attend while the JourneyPLUS events are optional. The in-person residences involving travel include the 3-day Immersion (25th-27th August, 2025) and the 2-day Lift-Off (9 & 10 April, 2026). Eligibility Requirements
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 level in Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
- Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health Reside and work within Nigeria
- Must be a national of Nigeria Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey
Benefits
All the leadership resources provided during the year as well as travel, lodging and food expenses for the in-person engagements are covered by WomenLift Health. However, the year-long program does not pay for your time. You will be expected to have access to a computer and internet to attend the virtual touchpoints.
Application Timeline
- Open Application Period: Application period closes on 31 January, 2025 by 11:59pm WAT.
- Notification Period: We will notify applicants of their acceptance status in February 2025.
- Acceptance & Pre-Orientation Period: The 30 accepted candidates will be asked to confirm their participation by late March 2025, after which we will begin pre-Journey onboarding.
- Leadership Journey Launch: Orientation commences the week of 3 June, 2025.
Application Deadline – 31st January, 2025
