Women’s Sport Leadership Academy 2018

Gaborone, Botswana

Application Form

Please return this application form, whichincludes a commitment from your employer/Chair of your Board, and a current curriculum vitae/resume, / by28 February 2018.

Please read the Participant Information on the website carefully before completing this form.

Personal Details
First name
Surname
Position / Please state your current role title:
……………………………………………………………………………………
Please tick most relevant description of your role:
□ Currently in middle management
□ Recently appointed senior manager
□ Recently appointed Board member
□ Other – please specify ………………………………………………..
Organisation
Address
Country in which your organisation is registered
Tel
email
LinkedIn profile URL
We will use this to find out more about you during the selection phase and also to stay in touch with you after the residential week. LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented social networking service mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. Its free to join and easy to set up your own personal profile:
LinkedIn URL
Data protection
I agree to the University of Chichester and IWG holding my details for WSLA administration and University of Chichester business (such as event invitations) only.
Data protection agreement / I agree □ I do not agree□
Supporting information
Your aspirations
Please set out your future career aspirations and how you think the Women’s Sport Leadership Academy programme may support these
500 words maximum
Please explain how you meet the following criteria for WSLA
  1. Have key areas of responsibility such as managing staff (or likely to be doing so soon) heading up a specific department, area or project for your organisation

What key areas of responsibility do you currently have? 100 words maximum
  1. Has passion and drive to pursue own professional development

What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your professional development and how did you overcome it? 100 words maximum
  1. Committed to influencing change in an organisation, sector or area of work

Please give us an example of where you have tried to influence change and the outcome of this. 100 words maximum
  1. Identified by the organisation as a future leader

How has the organisation demonstrated that they see you as a future leader? 100 words maximum
  1. Committed to making a difference to, as well as enhancing opportunities for, women and girls in and through sport

How do you currently make a difference for women and girls in and through sport? 100 words maximum
Leadership competencies or behaviours
With reference to the leadership competencies or behaviours detailed in the Participant Information Pack please tell us which ones you would like to develop further and why through WSLA. 500 words maximum
What you bring to WSLA
Recognising that everyone will bring something different to the Women’s Sport Leadership Academy, please tell us your unique qualities or experiences that you will bring to the programme. 500 words maximum
Finally tell usone interesting or unusual fact about yourself so that we know a bit more about you
50 words maximum
Employer’s support for your application
We will contact your employer, either the Chair of the Board or most senior person in the organisation to endorse your application. Please provide their contact details. An Employers Information Pack is available on the website.
Name
Phone number
email address
Personal Commitment
By submitting this application, you are indicating that you will demonstrate your commitment to the Women's Sport Leadership Academy including any pre-work, the residential week, follow up evaluation activities and to be part of the world-wide WSLA Alumni Group.
You also acknowledge that the week requires a good level of written and spoken English and that no translation services will be provided.
Successful participants will be notified in at the end of March 2018.

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WSLA Botswana Chapter has been developed through a unique partnership between Females Achieving Brilliance, International Working Group on Women and Sport,the Anita White Foundation and the University of Chichester.