Volunteer: Become a Virtual Academic Mentor

Be A Mentor, Inc. (SF Bay Area); Hayward (CA); Remote; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Be A Mentor, Inc. is seeking Volunteer Academic Mentors to engage with youth in a one-on-one virtual setting. This role involves providing guidance, support, and encouragement to help youths overcome challenges and realize their potential. Mentors will dedicate at least one hour weekly to focus on goal setting, academic assistance, and career exploration. This is a remote role available only to individuals located in the United States.

Qualifications

• Caring adult with at least one hour per week availability.
• Ability to provide guidance and support to youth.
• Flexible schedule for virtual meetings.

Responsibilities

• Help youth develop personal goals and academic support.
• Build personal relationships and create a support network.
• Provide one-on-one attention and encourage success.

Skills

Caring

Mentoring

Empathy

Goal Setting

Encouragement

Job description

Volunteer: Become a Virtual Academic Mentor

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The Be A Mentor Program pairs caring adult volunteers from the community with youth in one-to-one relationships. Mentors give of their time to be a friend, answering questions, and providing guidance. Mentors come from a variety of backgrounds and occupations and volunteer their personal time to be a caring friend to a youth. They serve as a role model, advocate, and resource. The purpose of the mentoring relationship is to help youth develop their full potential, both in and outside of the classroom.

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Sign up with Be A Mentor to be an Academic Mentor to a struggling youth.

We need your special skills and perspective to show a young person what opportunities they have and give them the confidence to work towards big goals.

An Academic Mentor is a trusted caring adult that spends at least one hour per week with their mentee using Be A Mentor’s Virtual Mentoring Platform.

Mentors focus on goal setting, homework help, and career exploration. While there may be a focus on homework help in the meetings, these sessions are more than just tutoring. Mentees form a personal relationship with their mentor to build resilience, social engagement, and a support network.

Virtual mentoring removes barriers of distance, requires no commute time, and can offer a flexible schedule. However, mentors must be in the United States. Due to our current background check system we are unable to accept anyone outside of the US at this time.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has exacerbated many of the issues that youth were facing before the pandemic.

Now youth are dealing with

• Isolation
• Anxiety
• Falling behind in their studies
• Low self esteem
• Disbelief in a positive future
  
  

Academic Mentoring is life changing for youth.

Mentors Provide

• One-on-one attention
• Study skills
• Academic support
• Goal setting
• Encouragement for success
  
  

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Training

• Industries

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