Deadline: 7th of April 2022.
Public sector executives ascending the ranks of government departments, agencies, ministries or multilateral organisations must maintain exemplary performance in their current role while developing the new skills and perspectives they will need to take on a top leadership role. The AIG Public Leaders Programme is designed to ensure these senior public leaders, and those who are moving into the senior leadership of the public-sector over the next three to seven years, master a range of new skills as quickly as possible.
The programme aims to broaden their skills as public leaders and provide them with the conceptual frameworks and practical tools they need to meet the challenges of a complex and rapidly changing world.
The AIG Public Leaders Programme offers insights from the world’s leading scholars and practitioners, and peer learning from participants’ counterparts. The learning experience is intense and demanding, engaging participants through a mixture of classroom discussion, simulations, practical exercises and group work.
GOVERNING IN TIMES OF CHANGE
HARNESSING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
DECISION-MAKING
While senior decision-makers pride themselves on using the best information and advice available, there is plenty of evidence that our decisions are too often colored by our psychological biases. Participants of AIG Public Leaders Programme will explore framing bias, confirmation bias, overconfidence bias and sunk-cost bias, as well as examples of group think. They will consider the consequences for decision-making and test some simple techniques to overcome these biases in individual and group decisions.
INTEGRITY
ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Eligibility
Candidates will be chosen based on their public sector experience and achievements, proven leadership qualities, intellectual abilities, and personal motivations and ambitions.
To be eligible for AIG Public Leaders Programme, candidates must:
- Be citizens of any African country and actively working within the public sector in Africa
- Have a minimum of seven years’ of active service in the public sector
- Be at a Directorate level
- Provide evidence of game-changing leadership qualities and abilities
- Provide a letter of endorsement from the ministry, department or agency for which they work
- Provide a record of promotion within the ministry, department or agency for which they work, recording promotions over the most recent five (5) years.
The letter of endorsement affirms that the candidate is the right fit for the AIG Public Leaders Programme and, if shortlisted, the applicant will be allowed to participate in all programme activities.
Letters of endorsement should be prepared using the Ministry/Department/Agency’s letterhead and the letter should be addressed to:
- Capacity Building Team
AIG-Imoukhuede Foundation
19 Gerrard Road
Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria