Senior Program Manager, Southern Africa

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa WomenLift Health Full time

**Position Title**: Senior Program Manager (SPM), Southern Africa

**Location**: Major cities in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

**Type**:Fully remote with travel to in-person meetings and events

**Reports to**: Akhona Tshangela, Southern Africa Director

**Hours per week (average)**: 40 (full time)

**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 mid-career women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change for gender equality in health leadership. We work in East Africa, India, North America, and Southern Africa and continue to explore outreach to other regions.

**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 mid-career 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 women’s leadership, amplifying the voices of national and global health leaders including at the bi-annual 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 results-oriented problem-solvers 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:

- **Collaborative leadership** that celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences and ensures everyone contributes to their full potential.
- **Partnership** grounded in humility, respect, empathy, and inclusion.
- **Transformative change** based upon bold, strategic thinking combined with adaptability and pragmatic action.
- **Spirit** of learning ensures we are open, forward-looking, constructive, and committed to growing collectively and individually.
- **Achieving impact** by improving global health and gender equality.

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WomenLift Health is seeking a Senior Program Manager (SPM) who will work closely with the Southern Africa Director, Southern Africa Program Coordinator (PC), other members of the globally located WomenLift Health team, and external partners to design, build, and implement WomenLift Health’s training modalities for mid-career women leaders in public health based in Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). The Southern Africa hub plans to launch two Leadership Journeys in 2025 each with 30 women for a 12-month duration and may scale up to include additional Journeys in the following years. WomenLift’s “Leadership Journey,” focuses on equipping mid-career women the tools, along with peer, mentor and coach support, to successfully use their voice, expertise and leadership for impact. More details can be found here.

This recruitment is for 1 full-time (100% FTE) position, with periodic travel, and will report to the Southern Africa Director.

**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

In collaboration with Southern Africa Hub Team, successfully implement the annual Southern-Africa based Leadership Journeys and other training modalities. This includes:
Key Journey Operations
- Manage implementation plans including Leadership Journey (LJ) calendars and tracking key milestones.
- Manage the implementation plan and manage delivery of 2 in-person residencies per cohort for each year-long Journey - an initial 3 to 4 -day in-person Immersion and a closing 2-day “Lift-Off”. These in-person programs will be held in Southern African locations that may require travel.
- Manage coordination and implementation of LJ virtual touchpoints including learning touchpoints, mentoring, coaching, JourneyPlus, and PowerUp Workshops - or any other engagements for broader audiences.
- Refine and manage systems to track, support, evaluate, and find synergies between cohort members’ Leadership Projects (LPs).
- Work closely with hub alumnae team to transition cohort members to the alumnae community after completion of the Journey.
- Manage implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities for Leadership Journeys in close coordination with the MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) Lead and MEL partner.
- Document and maintain Leadership Journey systems and processes.
- Support the cross-regional operations team in tracking budget expenditures, and reviewing contracts and agreements related t

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