At a Glance
- Tasks: Support charity leaders by mentoring them on strategic challenges and decision-making.
- Company: Join the Charity Mentors Kent and Medway team to make a difference.
- Benefits: Give back to the community, meet inspiring people, and enhance your leadership skills.
- Other info: Flexible commitment with just one meeting a month for six months.
- Why this job: Empower others while developing your own mentoring and problem-solving abilities.
- Qualifications: Strong teamwork, listening, and leadership skills are essential.
The role of a Mentor is to provide mentoring support to charity leaders and managers. You should encourage Mentees to optimize their own problem‑solving abilities and knowledge, so that decisions can be made on the basis of all available information and the analysis of all possible options.
Programme Model
- Short‑term: The aim is to complete each mentoring project within six months (with some leeway).
- Strategic: All projects involve challenges at the strategic level.
- Specific: Clear goals are set at the beginning of the projects with a pre‑agreed picture of success.
Qualifications & Skills
- Teamwork
- Listening
- Evaluating & Reviewing
- Talking to others
- Managing people
- Good IT skills
- Leadership
Why these skills are required
Mentoring senior leaders on strategic issues ranging from strategy, planning, commercial, HR, estate management, staffing, marketing and many more.
Benefits
An opportunity to give back to the voluntary sector, meet fascinating new people and support individuals, their organisations and ultimately their beneficiaries to thrive.
Time Commitment
1 meeting per month for a couple of hours over 6 months, mentoring 2 projects per year plus 4 mentor meetings held in the evenings each for 2 hours, two face‑to‑face and two online.
Location
Postcode: TN27 8QE
Role Address: Kent and Medway
Application Process
- Application form
- ID check
- References
- Informal discussion (may include an interview)
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