Operation Smile
Cohort Manager, Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship, MENA
Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, Virginia, us, 23450
Cohort Manager, Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship, MENA
Title:
Cohort Manager, Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship - MENA
Location:
Flexible: Remote in Egypt, Jordan, Morrocco, Palestine, or United States
Modality:
Remote
Travel:
15% - outlined in greater depth below
Target Start Date:
February 2nd, 2026
Duration:
9-month fellowship
Compensation:
$1,000 per month
Hours:
10 to 15 hours per week
Time Commitment:
Est 10-15 hr/week
Summary:
The cohort manager has both a leading and a supportive role for a cohort of the Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship, ensuring fellow engagement and success. The Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship is a 9-month hybrid leadership development program for early- to early-mid career female health workers in low- and middle-income countries. It is delivered on the Zoom-based Operation Smile Academy (OSA) platform and through three in-person trainings at the start, 2-3 month mark, and end of the fellowship. Each fellow is linked with a mentor who provides personal and professional guidance during the fellowship, and the fellows will complete an independent project during their fellowship. The cohort manager will be the first and most frequent point of contact for fellows in the fellowship management team, in a role similar to a graduate-level teacher’s assistant. (This role does not have an assignment-grading function, but fellows may approach cohort manager for advice about independent assignments and projects.) The cohort manager will guide the group of fellows, promote social engagement, and be a sounding board for ideas and questions. This role will focus on an approximately 10-fellow cohort from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
If you are enrolled in a graduate or post-graduate program, we are happy to work with your academic institution to support academic credit for this role. Candidates are not required to be enrolled in a program, and candidates currently enrolled in a program are not required to seek academic credit.
This is a 10-month role, from January to October 2026.
Travel and Timing Requirements
Attend Women in Medicine team meetings held in the morning hours of US Eastern Time.
Attend and facilitate live sessions on Operation Smile Academy with the cohort, generally in the evening hours in the MENA region.
Attend a 3-day in-person cohort kickoff hosted in Morocco in February.
Preference may be given to candidates able to attend a 4-day all-cohorts workshop in late March or early April 2026.
Responsibilities
Regular communication with Women in Medicine team: attend weekly Fellowship team meetings and weekly meetings of all cohort managers.
Serve as primary contact for fellows and their mentors: handle situations like missing a live event, tech issues, etc.; route fellow questions or concerns to other members of the WIM Fellowship leadership team as needed; compile required information for all members of cohort: fellow biographies, bank details for stipend transfers, and travel information for in-person events.
Monitor and encourage fellow participation in all fellowship activities: send monthly session calendar, send reminders and access links for live sessions, run live sessions on Operation Smile Academy and assist facilitators with technical support, track attendance via OSA reports and follow up with absent or incomplete participants, confirm meeting of fellows and mentors, share post-session and post-module surveys.
Educational leadership for fellows: support questions on course content, help apply course themes to individual projects, suggest supplementary education materials.
Encourage causal and social connection among fellows: run Fellowship WhatsApp group, maintain birthday list and send recognition, facilitate Fellows-only meetings, conduct monthly fellow feedback session, share suggestions for activities with WIM Fellowship leadership team.
Engage with mentors to understand mentor support needs and fellow needs: conduct monthly mentor feedback session and survey, identify strategies for cohort engagement and success.
Other opportunities: research on M&E data, collaborative research or project design; teaching and training on themes you enjoy; participate in kickoff leadership workshop.
Qualifications
Proficient in professional English, proficient in Arabic; French is an additional benefit.
Experience in coordinating groups of learners.
Familiarity with global health and/or leadership development.
Experience as a TA for university or preferred graduate students.
Ability to work across time zones / in time zone of cohort members.
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Cohort Manager, Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship - MENA
Location:
Flexible: Remote in Egypt, Jordan, Morrocco, Palestine, or United States
Modality:
Remote
Travel:
15% - outlined in greater depth below
Target Start Date:
February 2nd, 2026
Duration:
9-month fellowship
Compensation:
$1,000 per month
Hours:
10 to 15 hours per week
Time Commitment:
Est 10-15 hr/week
Summary:
The cohort manager has both a leading and a supportive role for a cohort of the Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship, ensuring fellow engagement and success. The Women in Medicine Leadership Fellowship is a 9-month hybrid leadership development program for early- to early-mid career female health workers in low- and middle-income countries. It is delivered on the Zoom-based Operation Smile Academy (OSA) platform and through three in-person trainings at the start, 2-3 month mark, and end of the fellowship. Each fellow is linked with a mentor who provides personal and professional guidance during the fellowship, and the fellows will complete an independent project during their fellowship. The cohort manager will be the first and most frequent point of contact for fellows in the fellowship management team, in a role similar to a graduate-level teacher’s assistant. (This role does not have an assignment-grading function, but fellows may approach cohort manager for advice about independent assignments and projects.) The cohort manager will guide the group of fellows, promote social engagement, and be a sounding board for ideas and questions. This role will focus on an approximately 10-fellow cohort from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
If you are enrolled in a graduate or post-graduate program, we are happy to work with your academic institution to support academic credit for this role. Candidates are not required to be enrolled in a program, and candidates currently enrolled in a program are not required to seek academic credit.
This is a 10-month role, from January to October 2026.
Travel and Timing Requirements
Attend Women in Medicine team meetings held in the morning hours of US Eastern Time.
Attend and facilitate live sessions on Operation Smile Academy with the cohort, generally in the evening hours in the MENA region.
Attend a 3-day in-person cohort kickoff hosted in Morocco in February.
Preference may be given to candidates able to attend a 4-day all-cohorts workshop in late March or early April 2026.
Responsibilities
Regular communication with Women in Medicine team: attend weekly Fellowship team meetings and weekly meetings of all cohort managers.
Serve as primary contact for fellows and their mentors: handle situations like missing a live event, tech issues, etc.; route fellow questions or concerns to other members of the WIM Fellowship leadership team as needed; compile required information for all members of cohort: fellow biographies, bank details for stipend transfers, and travel information for in-person events.
Monitor and encourage fellow participation in all fellowship activities: send monthly session calendar, send reminders and access links for live sessions, run live sessions on Operation Smile Academy and assist facilitators with technical support, track attendance via OSA reports and follow up with absent or incomplete participants, confirm meeting of fellows and mentors, share post-session and post-module surveys.
Educational leadership for fellows: support questions on course content, help apply course themes to individual projects, suggest supplementary education materials.
Encourage causal and social connection among fellows: run Fellowship WhatsApp group, maintain birthday list and send recognition, facilitate Fellows-only meetings, conduct monthly fellow feedback session, share suggestions for activities with WIM Fellowship leadership team.
Engage with mentors to understand mentor support needs and fellow needs: conduct monthly mentor feedback session and survey, identify strategies for cohort engagement and success.
Other opportunities: research on M&E data, collaborative research or project design; teaching and training on themes you enjoy; participate in kickoff leadership workshop.
Qualifications
Proficient in professional English, proficient in Arabic; French is an additional benefit.
Experience in coordinating groups of learners.
Familiarity with global health and/or leadership development.
Experience as a TA for university or preferred graduate students.
Ability to work across time zones / in time zone of cohort members.
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