District Project Associate

**Locations**:Vijaypura, Kalaburgi, Dharwad, Belagavi, Raichur, Shivamogga, Haveri, Karwar, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Mysuru, Madikeri, Chamarajanagar, Mandya, Ramanagara.

**PURPOSE**:The District Program Associate plays a vital role in implementing key phases of the mentoring program, with equal focus on facilitating group mentoring sessions. They collaborate with DCTE Colleges in at least 3 allocated districts to build partnerships and engage interested students as mentees. The role involves independently conducting periodic group mentoring sessions as well as coordinating with local volunteer mentors to deliver the sessions. The Associate also supports the screening and selection process of mentees before they are matched with mentors.

**EXPERIENCE**: 1 - 4 years of relevant experience (in education, social work, community development, youth development or related fields)

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- ** Forge and maintain partnerships with corporate or other professional organizations. Drive these partnerships to provide a pipeline of mentors and mentees per the need of the program.**
- ** Manage weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting** for designated partners.
- ** Support and select mentee applicants through to successful mentorship**
- ** Follow-up with designated mentee applicants** during their pre-eligibility processes.
- ** Interview mentees and clarify program questions**as per the program goals.
- ** Each project associate will also be responsible for conducting sessions in 35-40 colleges across their districts. They will have to travel to designated colleges across 3 to 4 districts as per project requirements.**
- These sessions will be for students in Government Degree, Polytechnic, and Engineering colleges on specific topics of career readiness for future jobs ready skills.
- ** Collecting data**: Collect data from participants in sessions through surveys and interviews. Conduct interviews with college staff and relevant stakeholders.
- ** Reporting**:Compile and report collected information to the respective project manager/lead.

**SKILLS & COMPETENCIES**
- ** Planning & Organizing**
- Ability to sequence and prioritize tasks, set timelines, and evaluate progress against schedule and goals.
- ** Communicating Effectively**
- Effective and clear oral and written communication. Ability to use everyday communication to achieve goals with a range of stakeholders.
- ** Stakeholder Relationships**
- Ability to understand the needs, expectations and respect the opinions of the
- key stakeholders to build mutually rewarding relationships.
- ** Data Visualization & Analysis**
- Meticulous collection and verification of relevant program data.
- Effective data analysis skills for weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting. Ability to identify problems and suggest solutions using data.
- ** Problem Solving**
- Ability to do root cause analysis of the problem and present the solutions covering all the factors analyzed.
- Ability to navigate effectively through change; collectively taking others through changes by seeking support and having a positive outlook.
- ** Ownership & Learning Attitude**
- Ability to set high goals and motivate self and others to achieve those.
- High sense of responsibility demonstrated through learning from mistakes, seeking active feedback, willingness to take extra mile efforts to achieve milestones.
- ** Spoken and written fluency in Kannada, Hindi or Telugu preferred.**

**SELECTION PROCESS**:

- CV and covering letter
- Assignment/s
- Video interviews
- Reference checks & Transcript check

**ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW**:

- Mentor Together is an award-winning non-profit organization that has pioneered the youth mentoring movement in India. **We provide children and youth facing adversity, empowering personalized relationships with mentors, that help them achieve their goals and dreams.**

For our digital mentoring program Mentor To Go, we have built a technology platform and a digital mentoring partner ecosystem of over 200 individual educational institutions and NGOs, 3 Higher Education Government Departments, and over 40 different Corporate partners. Through this we help students learn a range of work readiness skills through self-learning sessions, personalized career mentorship, and placement support programs.

**Our organizational values are**:

- ** Youth centric work**:

- We believe that mentoring is a facilitative process that identifies the voices, needs and aspirations of mentees. We aim to partner with each mentee in their own journey, to enable them to realize their unique potential. We keep the mentee at the center, as the key stakeholder, in all our work.
- ** Impact driven** - We think long-term in our impact. We employ evidence-driven theories of change, best in class processes, and everyday experiences from the ground, to ensure that we are doing the best we can to empower our mentees.
- ** Organization and team first -** Every member of Mentor Together is stron