Learn, acquire skills, and join a community of problem solvers working on issues of poverty in Pakistan.
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Overview
The Pakistan Acumen Fellowship is a rigorous leadership development program that brings together a cohort of extraordinary individuals working on problems of poverty and equips them with the knowledge, skills, and community to strengthen their leadership and scale their impact in creating meaningful change in Pakistan.
Acumen Academy is the world’s school for social change. We inspire the world to build solutions to poverty and equip determined individuals using the knowledge and tools of business grounded in community and the practices of moral leadership.
At the end of the program, Fellow Candidates are inducted into a community of like-minded peers who, across sectors and geographies, stand for building a world based on dignity. Through this vast community committed to knowledge and experience sharing, they open themselves up to receive capital, coaching, and continuous learning as part of lifelong accompaniment on their journey toward creating social change.
Acumen Fellows in Pakistan are working vigorously on issues as wide-ranging as education to healthcare and environmental advocacy. They have been implementing projects—equitable school models, climate-resilient farming practices, access to health—with an emphasis on empowering communities and charting a path toward a more just and prosperous Pakistan.
Eligibility
Who do we look for?
The Fellowship looks for “builders” working to solve problems of poverty. This includes founders, CEOs, and senior leaders at for-profit, non-profit, or hybrid social enterprises, as well as corporate or government sector intrapreneurs. Though these titles give a sense of the types of roles Fellows play, more important is what you’re building and the track record of your impact.
- Applicants are required to have at least 5 years of work experience.
- Evidence of desire to serve and solve problems of poverty shall be required.
- Applicants should show ability/willingness to give, support from the community in terms of contribution of knowledge, experiences, networks and/ or ideas.
- Applicants must have a reliable internet connection, be fully available to participate throughout the entirety of the program and able to participate in English.
Curriculum
For over 17 years, our signature Fellowship curriculum has equipped Fellow Candidates with the knowledge, support systems, and skills to lead social change, work across lines of difference, and mobilize their communities.
Fellow Candidates remain in their existing jobs while participating in a 6-month hybrid program with virtual sessions that include orientation, learning labs, cohort calls, and check-ins, paired with in-person immersives. Below is a high level overview:
- One 3-day virtual Orientation
- Two 5-day full-time in-person immersives: 8 hours of assignments for each immersive consisting of self-paced learning and group calls
- Four Learning Labs: 4 hours each along with assignments
Fellows also develop trust with fellow candidates and test new leadership skills with their cohort. This cohort-based model is very deep, creating strong bonds that persist well beyond the program, and the Fellows build peer relationships that are invaluable to them on their journey toward making a better difference.
Notable fellowship curricula include:
- Polarity Management: Learn to guide opposing but interdependent values in tension into effective leadership.
- Good Society Readings: Explore what a good society means and what the moral and historical underpinnings of social change are through classic and contemporary works of thinkers like Plato, Ursula K. LeGuin, Chimamanda Adichie, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Amartya Sen.
- Adaptive Leadership: What does it mean to catalyze change at the level of self, organization, and society? How do you navigate uncertainty and embrace the slow slog that meaningful change really is?.
- Authentic Voice: Acquire the ability to tell meaningful stories, speaking across lines of difference and moving others to meaningful action.
Impact
Fellows hail from all walks of life—they work in all sectors, industries, and issue areas. They are united by determination and a vision for a world with dignity. The Program supports Fellow impact at three levels:
- Individual: Fellows are pushed to look inwards and outwards: at their values and their behaviour, and to shift their understanding of and related engagement with larger systems to bring about a world built on dignity.
- Organizational: The program offers a space for Fellows to exercise new forms of leadership practices that result in new outcomes within teams and organizations.
- Societal: Through the program, Fellows can develop an advanced understanding of how to drive change across their broader societies and ecosystems, either directly or through the work of their organizations.
At its heart, the Fellowship is focused on translating this impact into three interlinked outcomes:
- Community: The Fellows join our global community, which accompanies them for a lifetime and opens up opportunities for support, collaboration, and collective impact.
- Moral Leadership: Fellows help catalyze the practices of Moral Leadership within society, building a growing movement that strives to role-model a world based on dignity.
- Reimagining Success: Fellows help shape the actions of their organizations and initiatives to build solutions that reimagine the goals, structures and rules of existing systems so as to meaningfully address systemic problems of poverty.
Application Process
- Submit the Online Application: September 10, 2024
- Attend the Selection Conference: October 26, 2024
- Shortlisted applicants are invited to attend a full-day Selection Conference in person.
3. Begin your Fellowship Journey: November 14, 2024
- Our team will notify selected applicants and guide them in starting their Fellowship journey.
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