Do you have what it takes to be an Acumen Fellow?

Application Deadline: 4th January 2021

About the Award: Every year, our Fellows Program in East Africa brings together 20 extraordinary individuals from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, and South Sudan, and equips them with the knowledge, support system and practical wisdom to drive positive change in society.

Over the course of a year, Fellows remain in their jobs while taking part in five week-long seminars, where they receive the tools, training and space to innovate new ideas, accelerate their impact, build a strong network of social leaders from across their region and around the world.

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Type: Fellowship-Acumen East Africa Fellows Program 2021 for Emerging Leaders

Eligibility: Our Fellows are individuals who dare to do what’s right, not what’s easy, to create positive change in their region. Fellows can come from diverse cultural, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds and work in any sector, and they must be committed to ending poverty and injustice in their community through their work. They are individuals who are making a long-term play at system-level impact and are seeking the leadership skills and moral imagination to make it happen.

The Fellows we seek are:-Acumen East Africa Fellows Program 2021 for Emerging Leaders

• Typically in one of the following trajectories: entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and organizational builders whether for-profit, nonprofit, or in government. We define that as…
  1. entrepreneurs: founding or leading a for-profit or nonprofit organization that provides critical goods or services to the underserved
  2. organizational builders: supporting the growth of an organization, institution, or company focused on alleviating poverty or injustice but not as the founder of CEO
  3. intrapreneurs: creating innovative solutions to tackle poverty or injustice from within an existing institution by shifting its culture and building new collaborations
• Individuals who have a demonstrated history of impact, commitment and concrete connection to the region.
• Leaders with strong personal integrity, unrelenting perseverance and moral imagination.
• Committed individuals ready to undergo an intensive year-long personal transformation and leadership journey followed by an induction into the larger Fellows Community.
• Individuals of all ages and education levels who are able to participate in a program conducted in English, or in Spanish for those in the Program in Colombia.

Eligible Countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan & Ethiopia.

Number of Awards: 20

Year 1

• Join a diverse cohort of 20 leaders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan & Ethiopia.
• Acumen Fellows are drawn from diverse sectors, disciplines, organisations and social change journeys
• All programme costs covered by Acumen Academy East Africa
• 5 virtual multi-day seminars, paired with individual & group online assignments between seminars
• Learning that is immediately applied to your life and work
• Peer coaching that challenges and accompanies you in your social change work
• Cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself and your work in a broader context
• Navigate uncertainty and embrace the meaningful process of creating change

Beyond Year 1-Acumen East Africa Fellows Program 2021 for Emerging Leaders

• Join Acumen’s growing community of social innovators & builders accompanying each other from across the globe committed to a world beyond poverty and injustice
• The Acumen Fellowship is a life-long engagement and after the first year fellows take part in a range of opportunities that are designed to both further their impact and build their communities.

Duration of Award: 1 year

How to Apply: Apply Now

• It is important to go through all application requirements in the Award Webpage (see Link below) before applying.
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