Senior Manager India Alumnae
Senior Manager India Alumnae
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Position Title: Senior Manager India Alumnae
Location: India
Type: Fully remote with travel to inperson meetings and events
Reports to: Alumnae Program Lead CrossRegional
Hours per week (average): 40 (full time)
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 East Africa India Nigeria North America Southern Africa and continue to explore outreach 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 Leadership Journeys which focus on equipping midcareer women with 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 conversations 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:
- 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 forwardlooking constructive and committed to growing collectively and individually.
- Achieving impact by improving global health and gender equality.
POSITION SUMMARY
WomenLift Health recognizes that leadership is a lifetime journey. Following a powerful yearlong leadership developmental experience alumnae continue to navigate complexity and uncertainty in their workplaces and in public and global health. WomenLift Health invests in the growth connection and leadership of the women in this impactful alumnae community.
WomenLift is seeking a Senior Manager India alumnae to work under the direction of the Alumnae Program Lead CrossRegional and as a member of their India team to contribute to the design and implementation of both a regional and global Alumnae Community strategy. Their focus will be on serving the contextualized needs of women leaders based in India and connecting these women into a powerful global community with close ties to women leaders around the world.
The Senior Manager India Alumnae will require strong leadership skills and the ability to manage projects and people effectively. They must bring a high level of emotional and crosscultural intelligence and will be adept at building deep relationships across a variety of lived experiences and backgrounds. They should understand the value of cocreation with team members and be able to work independently. They must have strong written and oral communication skills. The candidate should be proficient at synthesizing and organizing information. They should possess strong endtoend event (inperson and virtual) design implementation and communication skills. They bring public/global health understanding and interest and embrace a growth mindset. They value human connection and are strongly aligned with WomenLift Health Mission Vision Culture and Values.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The WomenLifts global Alumnae Community is growing rapidly. In 2024 it includes 229 women and 60 of those are based in India growing to 420 in 2025 and over 1000 by 2027. The Senior Manager Alumnae India will work under the direction of the Alumnae Program Lead CrossRegional and closely with the India Director and managers in other regions to design and implement an annual set of virtual and inperson offerings. They will also liaise closely with India alumnae to reimagine the future for this community nationally/regionally and globally. The responsibilities include:
- Develop a regional alumnae strategy and workplan that aligns with and contributes to the crossregional alumnae strategy.
- Engage hub alumnae to provide input on WomenLift Healths strategy including the alumnae strategy engagement with health institutions and contributing to societal change.
- Collaborate with colleagues to seamlessly transition women from the Leadership Journey to join the alumnae community including facilitating inperson sessions during the LiftOff event.
- Build relationships with alumnae and track the progress opportunities and challenges of the alumnae. Support activities to collect the stories of alumnae.
- Provide support to the alumnae to sustain progress on the implementation of their Leadership Projects by sharing their expertise and exploring continued access to WomenLifts network and resources during weekly office hours.
- Working with colleagues within the Hub and across regions codesign and implement a minimum of 4 regional alumnae events per year and 2 crossregional events with a mix of inperson and virtual opportunities.
- Encourage alumnae to engage with their sisters within and across regions; Collaborate closely with Alumnae Lead (crossregional) and Senior Managers Leadership Impact in other regions to foster and strengthen these relationships.
- Work with the regional and functional communications team to raise the visibility of alumnae including but not limited to the amplification of their publications and speaking engagements and highlighting their professional advancement in the quarterly alumnae newsletter.
- Support the creation moderation and engagement of one or more crossregional Communities of Practice on the WomenLift Health WhatsApp Community.
- Identify and engage with internal and external partners for alumnae events.
- Under the supervision of the India Director prioritize manage and disperse the annual alumnae budget for the hub working with operational staff to manage contracts with local partners and vendors for events. Work in collaboration with the crossregional Alumnae Lead to determine the use of the crossregional alumnae budget.
- Manage and support updating the alumnae database.
Education & Experience (Required):
- Masters degree (related field preferred)
- 9 years of global public health or genderequality or social development or humancentric training experience
- Minimum 3 years of employee supervisory experience
Knowledge Skills And Abilities (Required)
- Commitment to WomenLift Healths mission vision and theory of change.
- Exceptional leadership interpersonal people and project management skills
- Ability to exercise cultural competency and work respectfully with a diverse team across cultures geographies and time zones.
- Proven ability to collaborate and cocreate within and across teams and with external partners.
- High emotional intelligence and ability to build trusting relationships
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.
- Depth of experience integrity maturity confidence ability to learn and adapt and give and receive feedback befitting a Senior Manager
- Advanced technological skills and demonstrated experience in using MS office suite including spreadsheets PowerPoint Outlook email; Social media platforms such as LinkedIn X Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp Video conferencing platforms such as Zoom Teams Google Meets; Program and Task management applications such as Smartsheet Monday.com Trello Figma and ease in learning new programs.
- Demonstrated success in following through and completing projects in a timely manner.
- Advanced analytical skills and proficient in synthesizing complex information
- Ability to design systems and processes with a keen eye for detail
- Ability to prioritize multitask and delegate work to others.
- Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects.
- Ability to routinely and independently exercise sound judgment with minimal supervision.
Education & Experience (Preferred):
- Experience with cohortbased programs desired.
- Lived or work experience in another WomenLift Health geography beneficial.
HOW TO APPLY
Hiring Information
To apply submit a resume and cover letter through the Please see career page of WomenLift Health. Please also include 3 professional references and your desired annual salary in INR.
Hiring Statement
We are looking for talent that is passionate selfdriven flexible able to multitask and thrive in a fastpaced demanding environment that shows strong initiative and ability to proactively manage assigned project deliverables with minimal supervision.
The talent will be hired through either GFS Consulting Private Limited (India) for WomenLift Health. Global Finance Strategies (GFS) founded in 2012 is a subsidiary of Global Health Strategies (GHS) which has been providing expert consulting services to clients working in international health and development for nearly 15 years. GFS has offices in New York New Delhi Rio de Janeiro Beijing Nairobi and Johannesburg and supports work in diverse countries in Africa Asia the Middle East Europe and the Americas.
GFS is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
Employment Type
Full Time
