Call for Mentors: WomHub Mentorship Programmme 2025

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The WomHub is inviting applications for its Mentorship Programmme to inspire and teach startups and SMMEs about the ins and outs of the business world based on their own business experiences.

Mentorship is a golden thread that runs through all WomHub programmes. This is an opportunity to support women-owned innovations in Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing (STEM). Their WomHub experience has shown that a successful mentoring relationship delivers positive results for both the mentor and the mentee.

This mentorship opportunity brings together a team of experienced and passionate mentors to inspire and educate start-up or SMME founders. Mentors and mentees will be matched based on a series of criteria.

They are looking at supporting our programme recipients, cohort members, in the following pillars with both in-workshop learnings and follow on mentorship:

Founder self-support
Product strategy through a thematic lens
Market access and go-to-market strategies for both traditional SMME’s and ventures
Operational efficiences
Commercial model
External factors to consider such as regulation, competitor analysis, macro-economic effects, cyber security etc
Thematic expert engineers council
Pitch readiness
Investor landscape
Women in business and money through the lens that is specific to the thematic programme

Eligibility Criteria for WomHub Mentorship Programmme

As a guideline, mentors should:

Have experience/exposure to the start-up environment in Africa specific to:
- Strategy and Business Planning
- Product / Market Fit
- Marketing and Sales
- Due Diligence
- Business Operations
- Human Resources (HR)
Be able to commit to 6 x 1-hour monthly virtual sessions with their mentee(s)
Respect the confidentiality of the mentee(s)’ ideas and innovations
Have previous mentoring/coaching experience

Mentors can be: