Program Lead, Technical Mentoring (Contractor)

About CodeDay & CodeDay Labs Program

There's a place in tech for everyone. CodeDay is a non-profit providing welcoming, hands-on opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech and beyond.

CodeDay's Labs program is a 100% online tech internship for anyone. Tens of thousands of talented CS students attend affordable local colleges rely on internships to gain real-world knowledge and demonstrate the skills they need to get a job. But most companies focus their hiring on brand-name schools. We help these students get real-world opportunities by pairing them with an industry mentor to work on a real-world, open-source Computer Science project.

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 3-20 mentors (your choice):

• Recruit mentors (optional): Reach out to engineering leadership at a few tech companies, and present information about why their employees should volunteer.
• Onboard mentors: One ~15min phone call to determine interests and match them with one of our partner open source projects.
• Monitor: During the program, ensure all teams are meeting regularly, and review weekly reflections from mentors and students. Raise any concerns with program staff.
• Check in: During the program, check in with your mentors every 1-2 weeks about any issues or feedback.

Most of these activities will take place at your own schedule.

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 match a mentor to a project.
• Available during some US working hours each weekday.

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

Compensation

You'll be paid as a contractor:

• $50 per mentor managed.
• $50 per mentor recruited, if any, as a result of your efforts.
• $50 per session for your time attending meetings with our program staff.

You're also welcome to do this as a volunteer job, if you'd like to help us get more students into the program.