Mentoring Program
It has opened my horizon to a whole new range of possibilities and given me tools to take back to my roles to have a positive engagement with others. My mentor has been so terrific and thoroughly generous with his time and availability.”
The Franklin Women Mentoring Program is a sector-first cross-organisational and structured 6-month program that combines informal mentoring sessions with formal sessions facilitated by experts in inclusive leadership.
It aims to support high-potential women in health and medical research careers progress into leadership positions, retaining their skill in the sector. It also provides current leaders the opportunity to develop their mentorship skills as well as increasing their awareness of the value of a diverse and inclusive workplace and the role they play in achieving this.
Since its inaugural year in 2017, the mentoring program has connected more than 200 mentees and mentors from 17 different organisations contributing to the health and medical research sector.
Franklin Women is proud to deliver an initiative that is having such a positive impact on our sector. An evaluation of the inaugural program in 2017 found participation had tangible impact on the careers of both mentees and mentors that were maintained 12 months down the track. For mentees this included new collaborations, research funding and career promotions. For mentors, increased inclusive leadership skills, tools for effective mentoring and changes to how they manage their teams.
What sets us apart?
Professionally Facilitated
Connecting Across Organisations
Professional Development
Franklin Women is committed to providing women in the health and medical research sector with professional skills outside of the technical sciences. Our Mentoring Program includes facilitated events and workshops for both mentees and mentors over a 5-month period. These events will provide training in resilience, inclusive leadership and mentoring.
How to participate
Franklin Women welcomes organisations who carry out any form of research that contributes to improving health (including university science, medicine and health faculties, medical research institutes, not-for-profit organisations, and industry) to participate in our Mentoring Program. As a Participating Organisation you are eligible to put forward mid-career women (mentees) and senior leaders of any gender (mentors) who meet the program criteria. Mentees and mentors will then be matched from within the overall participating cohort.
As a Participating Organisation you are eligible to put forward mentees (female researchers) and mentors (female and male senior leaders) who meet the program criteria, will then be matched from within the overall participating cohort.
The 2020 Mentoring Program is currently underway. Applications for the 2021 Program will open early next year – please sign up to our newsletter to receive updates.
If you are an individual working in the sector and are interested in participating in the FW Mentoring Program as a mentee or mentor, please enquire within your organisation with respects to if they participate and how to nominate yourself. Please contact Franklin Women if you are not sure if your organisation participates in our program.
Franklin Women also sponsors one mentee place for Franklin Women members (refer to eligibility criteria below) who are not from one of the Participating Organisations.
Program criteria
MENTEES
Has the capacity, availability and commitment to work with a mentor for the entirety of the program (refer to 2020 Program Flyer)
MENTORS
Has the capacity, availability and commitment to work with a mentee for the entirety of the program (refer to 2020 Program Flyer).
2020 participating organisations
