‘She’s Back – Women Returnship Programme’
Pakistan’s main telecom operator Jazz, has launched a programme by taking on board 12 women under its ‘She’s Back – Women Returnship Programme’ to help, support and inspire women return to work.
This is a comprehensive six-month programme for women returning to corporate positions after a career break and offers a number of creative and inspirational choices to these women to renew their cooperative life with all the more vigour and passion.
After a rigorous recruitment process, these women have been assigned roles spread across various functions – from People Experience to Product Development, Legal to Sales, Ethics & Compliance to Network Supervision.
According to a press release issued by Jazz, the returnees are women who have had to pause their careers for more than one and a half years to raise children, care for family members, pursuing higher education amidst other reasons or because of other family or personal issues.
Through this programme Jazz aims to facilitate their professional growth by building their confidence, reconnecting them to the workforce, developing their functional and technical skills, and providing them access to other learning opportunities, said the press release.
“Women enrolled in this programme will gain an enriching experience through a number of development and engagement initiatives. The best part of all this is that at the end of this programme these women will have an opportunity to join Jazz on a permanent basis”, said Wajida Leclerc, Chief People Officer, Jazz.
She’s Back – Women Returnship Programme along with a number of other initiatives reaffirms Jazz’s commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, she said.
