About the Role

Mentors are the lifeblood of CodeDay Labs, and mentor managers help us recruit, onboard, train, and provide support to the mentors who oversee student projects. You'll support a team of mentors (the number of which we'll agree on in advance). There's a lot of flexibility in the schedule.

To get the ball rolling, please reach out to [email protected] or [email protected].

Requirements

• Good organizational skills (or otherwise happy to edit things in a spreadsheet).
• Comfortable taking on the phone and writing emails.
• At least hand-wavey-level knowledge of how teams develop software, and some modern tooling (consuming/building APIs, what goes into front-end/mobile/back-end development, etc).

You don't need to know how to do these things, but you need to be able to talk about them enough to help a mentor come up with a good project proposal.

• College students or responsible high school students are a good fit.

What You'll Do

Before CodeDay Labs Starts:

• Reach out to engineering leadership at a few tech companies, and present information about CodeDay Labs and why their employees should volunteer.
• Onboard mentors, which means taking 1-2 phone calls, ~15min each, at your own schedule, to make sure they understand the program, answer their questions, and finalize a project proposal which meets the needs of students. We'll provide you info on all this.
• Optionally, work with the Program Managers and other Mentor Managers to design this year's mentor training, and host a mentor training workshop.

During CodeDay Labs

• Be an escalation path for any questions or problems that come up, like if a student isn't responding, or the mentor is spending too much time helping students and they're not learning on their own. (We'll provide you some guidance but every situation is unique.)
• Check in with any mentors (text/email) you haven't heard from after the first week, and at least one other time, to see if any issues have arisen.
• Review weekly performance feedback for your teams, and decide whether/how we need to address any issues with students on those teams. (Or if we should provide guidance to the mentor.)
• Follow up with any mentors who skipped meetings or are not holding 1-1s with their team members.

Compensation

You'll be paid as a contractor.

• Recruiting mentors: $50/mentor you recruit (minimum of 5 mentor goal).
• Managing mentors: $50/mentor you manage, minimum of 5 mentors. (We expect you'll spend between 1-2 hours with each mentor in total, so that works out to about $25-50 per hour.)

You're also welcome to do this as a volunteer job, if you'd like to help us get more students into the program. If you volunteer we won't assign you more than 10 students.

Apply

Apply by emailing [email protected] with the subject "Mentor Manager Application".

Please include a bit about your technical experience and anything else you think is relevant to the position.