North America Training Lead

Location: US (CA, WA, NC, MA, IL, GA, DC/MD/Virginia) or Canada - must be located within 45 miles of an international airport

Reports to: Shereen Bhan, Global Leadership Development Director and North America Director

Full time; Exempt

Our Vision and Mission – WomenLift Health is committed to expanding the power and influence of talented women in global health and catalyzing systemic change to achieve gender equality in leadership. We envision a world where diverse, accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes.

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 giving 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 health institutions, taking steps to prioritize gender equality. It also includes driving a global conversation about the importance of women’s leadership, amplifying the voices of national and global health leaders including at our annual conference, Women Leaders in Global Health.

POSITION SUMMARY

WomenLift Health is seeking a North America Training Lead to work under the direction of the North America Program Director and in close collaboration with their teammates in country training teams around the globe. Using a Human-Centered Design approach, the Training Lead will be responsible for the continued contextualization of the WomenLift Health training program (“The Leadership Journey”) for mid-career women leaders in global health who are based in North America (U.S. and Canada). The cohort members represent a diversity of sectors, cultures, and nationalities. Through facilitated discussions, mentoring, coaching, and hands-on exercises, the Leadership Journey imparts contextualized tools & frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in health face today. The North America-based Leadership Journey began in 2020 and this hub will continue to operate 1 cohort of 30 women for a 12-month duration every year. The North America hub will scale up to include both the US and Canada starting 2023. 

This position will be responsible for leading the refinement of the design and implementation of the North America Leadership Journey and contributing to the North American hub’s institutional influence strategy. Their role will, therefore, include both high level strategic thinking and coordinating detailed tasks for effective implementation. They are a self-starter, self-driven learner, relish co-creating with a team, and demonstrate excellent project management, and oral and written communication skills. They must possess a keen eye for detail, planning, organization and enjoy building and refining implementation processes and systems. The ideal candidate should be able to toggle adeptly between working independently and in a team. The Training Lead must be able to exercise clear judgment when delineating issues that can be managed independently versus those that should be escalated to supervisors. Keen observation, emotional intelligence, astute judgment, and proficient management skills are critical to success in this position.

This recruitment is for 1 full-time (100% FTE) position and will report to the North America Program Director.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with the North America Program Director, training and instructional design teammates around the globe, and partner organizations to contribute to and manage continued contextualization and implementation of the Leadership Journey and contribute to the WomenLift Alumnae network activities design and implementation.
  • Implement the annual North America-based Leadership Journey including (1 cohort per year)
    • Manage relationships with critical Journey stakeholders, including cohort members, facilitators, mentors, coaches, guest speakers and experts.
    • Serve as the primary person of contact for the cohort members. Hold weekly office hours to address cohort members concerns and determine when to escalate issues to North America Program Director
  • Meet with the Leadership Journey teams of other regions to exchange learnings and best practices; contribute to facilitating the global community of WomenLift alumnae and partners
  • Oversee the continued contextualization of the core curricula of the leadership journey, and its delivery, ensuring its relevance to mid-career women leaders representing different global health sectors, cultures, and nationalities in North America. The content for this Leadership Journey has already been developed by WomenLift Health team and partners but it continues to evolve with changes in context.
  • Contribute to periodically surveying mid-career women in health in North America to assess the needs and priority leadership focus for women leaders in different health sectors and disciplines in their particular cultural context
• Implement the annual North America-based Leadership Journey (1 cohort per year)
  • Manage the annual application process for the Leadership Journey, including promotion, intake, initial screening, and review by a Selection Committee
  • Oversee coordination of Journey stakeholders & sessions, including scheduling of touchpoints, mentoring sessions, and any other Journey engagements
  • Refine and manage systems to track, support, evaluate, and find synergies between cohort members’ leadership projects
  • Review and contribute to the development and dissemination of key information to the cohort, mentors, coaches, and other Journey stakeholders including for the purposes of program orientation & alignment, and community-building
  • Oversee the documentation of all North America-based Journey systems and processes
  • Support the monthly virtual sessions attended by the cohort members, both technically and programmatically
  • Manage technological production of all virtual sessions (on Zoom)
  • Along with our Operations team, coordinate the logistics and event planning for 2 in-person residencies during the 12-month program – an initial 3-day leadership Immersion event and a closing 2-day “Leadership Lift-Off” event. These in-person events will be held in various North American locations and will require travel.
• Contribute to the development of North America’s institutional influence strategy including engaging with global health institutions and institutional leaders represented by the cohort members
• Contribute to the creation of additional training modalities for mid-career women in global health and serve as facilitation back-up support:
  • Participate in training of trainers to serve as a backup facilitator for the North American Journey and broader audiences in the same context.
  • Contribute to the design, pilot testing, adaptation, and Training of Trainers for stand-alone workshops for mid-career women in health (PowerUp Workshops) in North America and beyond, and other learning modalities for WomenLift’s alumnae network.
• Contribute to the creation of Leadership Journey-related content, including materials to be shared with global technical partners, contractors, donors, and the Global Advisory Board.
• Assist WomenLift Health communications and design personnel with development of North America cohort training materials such as presentations, invitations, brochures, website collateral, social media assets, etc.
• Support program monitoring, evaluating, and learning efforts by contributing to defining, reviewing, and helping to track core metrics of the Leadership Journey, which includes the application process, virtual learning activities, in-person residencies, leadership projects, mentoring sessions, coaching sessions, peer engagement, and alumnae network
• Support the global operations team in tracking budget expenditures, and reviewing contracts and agreements related to the North American Leadership Journey
• Meet with the Leadership Journey teams of other regions to exchange learnings and best practices; contribute to facilitating the global community of WomenLift alumnae and partners
• Ensure program quality by overseeing monitoring, evaluation, and learning; program cycle management; and partner communications.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):

• Master’s degree (related field preferred)
• 8+ years of Global Health experience
• Minimum 10 years of work experience ideally in leadership training curriculum development and/or implementation for North American (US and Canada) audiences across different sectors (Public, Private, INGO/NGO, Academia and Philanthropy) and diverse socio-demographic backgrounds.
• Demonstrated track record of independently designing and developing curricula as well as processes, systems and tools to create, adapt, and contextualize instructional products that truly serve diverse audiences from different cultures.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (REQUIRED):

• Interpersonal Skills: Proven ability to collaborate and co-create within teams and with clients and external stakeholders
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Advanced computer skills and demonstrated experience in using MS office suite including spreadsheets, web-based applications such as email, social media, videoconferencing, program and task management applications, and ease in learning new programs
• Depth of experience, maturity, confidence, ability to learn and adapt, and give and receive feedback, befitting a Training Lead
• Demonstrated success in following through and successfully completing projects in a timely manner
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and assign work to others
• Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects
• Ability to routinely and independently exercise sound judgment with minimal supervision
• Ability to exercise cultural competency and work respectfully with a diverse team across varied cultures, geographies, and time zones

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (PREFERRED):

• Women’s Leadership and Gender Equality knowledge and experience, particularly in the North American context
• Knowledge of digital & online learning modalities is a plus
• Additional language preferred, but not required

How to Apply
To apply, submit resume and cover letter through Jobsoid link. Please also include 3 professional references and desired annual salary in USD.

Hiring Statement

WomenLift Health is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making 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. NVF’s 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.
Hiring Information

US-based candidates will be hired directly as a staff member of the New Venture Fund, if selected. Canada-based candidates will be hired through a PEO (Professional Employer Organization).

Benefits at New Venture Fund: Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance; 3% automatic contribution and a 3% employer match on 401(k) contributions; pre-tax transportation benefits; and paid holiday, vacation, sick, and volunteer time off.

COVID-19 Policy

To center the safety and well-being of its employees, New Venture Fund requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. This position may require candidates to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations may be sought and approved in accordance with the law by contacting human resources at [email protected].