Lead Coach

• Lead the end-to-end management of coaching within the Global Leadership Accelerator, including coach-participant matching, scheduling, participant experience, coaching workflows, and coordination with programme leadership.
• Design, update, and maintain a unified global coaching curriculum, including coaching tools, reflective exercises, leadership development frameworks, and guidance materials that can be adapted across diverse contexts.
• Identify, vet, recruit, and onboard a diverse pool of skilled coaches, ensuring they are duly certified, understand WIN’s values, programme objectives, coaching approach, safeguarding expectations, and quality standards.
• Provide ongoing mentorship and support to coaches, including case clinics, peer reflection spaces, supervision sessions, and guidance on complex participant situations.

This role directly strengthens gender equality in media by empowering women journalists and media professionals through transformative coaching, thereby fostering more inclusive and resilient media ecosystems globally.

• Certified Professional Coach with significant experience in leadership coaching, executive coaching, career coaching, and organisational development.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supervising coaches across diverse contexts.
• Strong understanding of leadership development, reflective practice, emotional intelligence, and professional growth.
• Experience designing coaching curricula, tools, frameworks, or learning journeys.

Milestone-based contract for 12 months. Global flexible location. Opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven programme advancing women's leadership in media.

Women in News (WIN) is a global programme of WAN-IFRA dedicated to strengthening gender equality in media through leadership development, research, and advocacy, working with media organisations and journalists across Africa, the Arab Region, Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond.