Job Opportunity for Senior Program Manager at Mentor Together in Multiple Locations

TITLE: SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

LOCATION: Bangalore, Mumbai, or Hyderabad

PURPOSE: The Senior Program Manager oversees a program team in successfully delivering our mentoring program. They are responsible for overall operational planning, oversight of program execution, achievement of program excellence goals, and people management and development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

OPERATIONAL PLANNING

• Create and own the annual gantt for the Mentor To Go program.
• Create detailed operational plans for sub-phases like Mentee Partner Sign-Up, Mentor Partner Sign-Up, Mentee Townhalls, Mentor Screening etc .

OPERATIONS OVERSIGHT

• Provide program planning (quarterly & monthly) support.
• Create and review operational processes.
• Provide operational oversight to ensure program timelines and goals are met.

PROGRAM EXCELLENCE

• Setup customised process benchmarks for key operational processes, through review of mentoring benchmarks. These will include around pair attrition, pair satisfaction, quality of mentor and mentee experience etc
• Ensure training and process standard operating procedures are aligned to the operational benchmarks
• Provide operational oversight to review and improve process excellence on a monthly and quarterly cadence

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

• People management of a 5-10 member operations team
• Recruitment for open roles
• Ongoing performance planning and reviews
• Ensuring overall engagement of the Mentor To Go team in alignment with Mentor Together’s HR practices and policies.

EXPERIENCES, SKILLS, & COMPETENCIES:

• 8 – 10 years of work experience, with at least 5 years of program management/program leadership experience.
• Very strong analytical, planning, and forecasting skills
• Comfortable with a range of software – excel, gantt charts, project management software
• Highly detail oriented
• Very strong oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable leading a team that works in a fast-paced program, with a mindset to do new things and take risks.

REPORTING

This role reports in to Associate Directors of Mentor To Go
Program operations teams report into the role

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 100 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 of 6 months, and speed mentoring on different topics.

Learn more about us at https://mentortogether.org/

Read our policy brief on digital mentoring published by Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

If interested, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the top, for submitting your application.

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 strongly aligned to our vision and mission. We work together as teams upholding the values of trust, respect and integrity. We place the organization first in our work.

Invigorating workplace – We focus on engaging our team members in all aspects of our organization’s work. We appreciate and celebrate them for who they are, giving them an opportunity to learn and grow, in ways that help them be more fulfilled in their lives.