Are you a strategic and innovative senior executive or independent non-executive with expertise in one of our desired fields and have had recent experience of living in or regularly visiting or working in Southern Africa? This is your opportunity to join Sentebale’s Board of Trustees. As a trustee, you will help shape the strategy and the governance of one of the most impactful international organisations in Southern Africa.

Sentebale is entering a new chapter marked by renewed energy and transformation in our mission to serve young people in Lesotho and Botswana. As such, we are now better placed for the future with significant progress made since our 16 month reporting period, laying the foundation for stronger programme delivery, robust governance and financial resilience.

Through our direct support for 78,000 children and youth, child rights governance and child protection remain integral to our work as we not only strengthen our programmes but also seek to position Sentebale as a prime development actor in the region, aligning with funders and partners who prioritise authentic, data-driven, and locally owned solutions.

We will consider candidates who bring significant practical work experience from the following fields with a specific emphasis on impact or implementation in the Southern African region:

1. Child rights governance, child law and/or child protection and safeguarding
2. Fundraising – Grants, Family, Individual, Corporate or Institutional
3. Youth Health and Wellbeing in the Southern African Context
4. Youth Education in the Southern African Context
5. Youth Programme Design and Evaluation in the Southern African Context
6. Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Southern African Context
7. Technology and Innovation in the Southern African Context
8. People, Culture, and Human Resource Management
9. Marketing and Communications
10. Social and Impact Enterprise Development

Sentebale’s International Board of Trustees set the organisations strategic direction and ensure governance and accountability to its stakeholders. As a trustee, you will bring external expertise and innovative perspective to shape and strengthen the organisation’s goals. Most of our Board meetings are virtual, lasting two hours, and convening every two months. In addition, you may be asked to join a working group relating to one or more of your specialisms, where members of the executive team may call on your support. By applying, you are indicating that you are generally able to meet this time commitment.

Sentebale works with children and young people aged 0 -24 in Lesotho and Botswana to create sustainable solutions across three impact areas: health, wealth creation, and climate resilience.

Each year, Sentebale directly supports over 78,000 children and young people in Lesotho and Botswana.

• In health, we support young people living with or at risk of HIV through psychosocial care, adherence support, and youth-friendly services.
• To build economic resilience, we provide vocational training, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship programmes that equip young people, especially adolescent girls, with the skills to secure employment, start businesses, and support themselves and their families.
• In response to increasing climate-related adversities in a part of the world where people are subsistence farmers and rely on the land, we are a core implementation partner in the regeneration of landscapes and livelihoods (ROLL) across rural Lesotho. These community-led efforts protect natural resources, strengthen livelihoods, and promote long-term sustainability.

For nearly two decades, Sentebale has worked closely with youth, caregivers, and local institutions to design culturally relevant, locally led programmes that empower the next generation of African leaders.

The organisation was founded by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and HRH Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006, at a time when Lesotho and Botswana had been ravaged by HIV/AIDS over the previous decades, with children and young people disproportionately impacted. The name Sentebale means “forget-me-not” in the Sesotho language, representing a pledge to remember the most vulnerable children in the region.

The countries continue to be amongst the top five most severely impacted nations in the world. However, significant progress has been made against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the outlook for a full life becoming a reality. Youth are eager to change their own story and not be defined or limited by the stigma of HIV and AIDS. They continue to tell us they want to feel valued, happy, and hopeful about their future. They want to feel self-confident and able to make informed choices about how to lead their lives. They work directly with us to share insights and ideas to address the issues important to them as young people in the region.

Our mission since 2006 has been widened to serve the broader children and youth agenda in Southern Africa, from our operations in Lesotho and Botswana, to address the impact areas of health, wealth inequity and climate resilience.

We are regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales (registered charity No. 1113544). In the US, we enjoy support from the American Friends of Sentebale Foundation, an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) charitable organisation.

Our model is built on solutions informed by children, their caregivers and the young people we serve, along with the communities they are a part of to address both systemic issues and individual needs of the moment. Our programmes recent proof of impact include:

Health – Improved health and mental wellbeing for vulnerable children, young people and their communities.

• Reaching nearly 67,000 high risk adolescent girls and young women with education on risk reduction behaviours and links to relevant services.
• Supporting adherence structures for young people living with HIV, with 98% of those identified as missing out on HIV care, successfully returned to care.
• Successfully facilitating health clinic hours over the weekend at rural facilities throughout Lesotho, ensuring children and young people are no longer missing school for their critical health visits.

Wealth Creation – Improved, equitable access to economic and social empowerment for young people.

• Providing vocational training and business skills to vulnerable young women, who are paired with adult female business mentors through the Socio-Economic Strengthening Programme. Notably:

– 45% of young women who graduated from the programme secured access to an internship.

– A total of 38 business plans were evaluated for young women interested in entrepreneurship, while 60 business plans are currently in progress.

• Working with youth in the Let Youth Lead (LYL) programme to advocate better health, education, and social rights. Highlights include:

– The Radio Positive programme on national radio station DUMA FM continued, hosted by LYL advocates, reaching 90,000 young people and providing a platform for discussing timely issues.

– Working with 2,882 young people in Lesotho via community-based conversations focused on education issues to then develop an advocacy agenda.

Climate Resilience – Generate knowledge about novel ideas in climate resilience.

• Partnering with the Lesotho government on the Regeneration of Landscapes and Livelihoods (ROLL) programme, so that communities are supported in regenerating landscapes and accessing natural resources essential for sustainable livelihoods.
• In the last 12 months, more than 150 village level regeneration coalitions have been established with plans to leverage communal assets for sustainable livelihoods.

Sentebale ensures that young people recognise and tap into their innate talents in resourceful ways that unleashes agency and ownership over their destiny. By breaking cycles of trauma and poverty, we work to uplift youth and entire communities.

We listen to young people, co-creating responses to issues and putting them at the heart of our programme delivery. We work with widespread and trusted community-based delivery networks. We value partnership with traditional leaders, government and local organisations to maximise impact. We work in an agile manner, learning and adapting programmes to the changing environment and in response to locally driven needs.

By uplifting the potential of children and youth, Sentebale is creating pathways of possibility that can ripple across borders.

The Board brings world-class expertise in governance, strategy, fundraising, health systems strengthening, global health security and organisational transformation – essential capabilities for guiding Sentebale through its strategic evolution.

The Charity Commission confirmed the Board’s validity on 6 August 2025, providing clear regulatory standing to advance the organisation’s mission.

Read more about our Board of Trustees here.

• 69 full-time staff and 501 contingent staff.
• 567 Southern Africa based staff and 3 international team members.
• 100% of leadership roles based in Southern Africa.

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