Opportunity Details
Volunteer Mentor Coordinator
Imagine. If you could be the person who made it possible for thousands of children to be mentored, for them to be inspired, for them to find a role model, a buddy to relate to...to be able to create a volunteer movement in the country.
This is a 100% VOLUNTEER role and ideally played by someone who is one of the following:
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been an active and engaged volunteer themselves
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has been a mentor themselves or is interested in/ likes working with children or
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is really passionate about either volunteering or mentoring and wants to make a difference
Read on if you are that person
The role includes
• Understanding the program in DETAIL (note enclosed), proposing how you will drive it and what you want to accomplish
• "Owning" the program making a LONG term commitment to it of at least 2 years to begin
• learning enough about mentoring thru the resources and thru conversations with experts (we will facilitate)
• Developing mentoring ability thru 1 on 1 mentoring of children over a period of 12 months
• Creating a detailed project plan including all the activities listed in the role below
• Identifying the children that need to be mentored, obtaining their details as available, especially any red flags
• Identifying children who need special mentoring that requires trained professionals (abuse, mental health, extreme circumstances, medical history, etc.)
• building "curriculum" for implementation over 6 month period, getting expert inputs on it (we will help), finalizing it
• Creating a volunteer recruitment plan (how/where to source, what profile, selection criteria and process to evaluate sincerity, etc.)
• Design orientation for volunteers (with help)
• Design initial activities for volunteers (e.g., group mentoring)
• Design feedback mechanisms (child feedback on the mentors, mentor feedback on experience) action the plan
Essential skills:
• Hunger for change, hard-working
• Responsive gets back to people in minutes and hours, not in days
• Prior experience in recruiting and engaging volunteers
• DESIRABLE but not necessary experience in mentoring children or teaching/ working with children
• Either Extraverted (E in MBTI) or EXTREMELY excited by the idea Take the fun test here to see what your personality profile is
• Physically located near 1 of the centers where the pilot will happen.
• Able to commit about 1-2 hrs a day for 12 months and about 2-3 hours a day thereafter for this
Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+, Minimum Age:18+