For the full Position Description and details on how to apply, see the Out For Australia website.

Overview

The Director of Mentoring is responsible for the Out for Australia (OFA) mentoring program, OFA’s flagship program with over 1,000 participants nationally. The Director of Mentoring leads the mentoring function through delivering its day-to-day offering, identifying and actioning areas for improvement and leading a team of volunteers to embed mentoring in everything that we do.

Responsibilities:

Quality control [50%]:

You will be responsible for ensuring a high-quality of program delivery, and managing the back-end of the mentoring program, which is run via a digital platform called Mentorloop.

Leadership and project management of the mentoring team [35%]:

You will be responsible for leading the national mentoring team. This includes:

• recruiting and onboarding mentoring team;
• chairing monthly meetings with the team;
• ad hoc check-ins with team members as required;
• tracking the team’s progress against goals, and redirecting the team as required or escalating roadblocks/issues as required;
• creating and implementing processes to enable the team to achieve its goals;

Reporting [5%]:

You will be responsible for a small volume of reporting on the mentoring program to the CEO and the Board. Our Director of Data has set up a data dashboard for this purpose and will support the Director of mentoring in maintenance and improvements.

General volunteer expectations (10%)

• Undertake an OFA volunteer induction and role onboarding.
• Understand and implement OFA’s strategy, vision and mission.
• Uphold our volunteer code of conduct.
• Assist with initiatives as required.