community/mentoring/programs/mentoring-lead.md

Internship Mentoring Lead Handbook

Overview

The Mentoring Lead role is created to help upstream Kubernetes contributors to participates in various mentorship programs like GSoC, GSoD, LFX Mentorship and many more as an independent organisation or under Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF).

Responsibilities

The role lead should:

• Keep a calendar of dates for each program (when to submit our project name, when to submit the project scope, when selecting period is, etc) throughout the year and
• Coordinate all submissions and participation in each one
• Go to sig meetings and slack channels to proactively help with scoping and planning work / job descriptions
• Help onboard interns to the k8s specific community items like coordinate a hello for them at the k8s monthly community meeting
• Help off board interns to the k8s specific community items like demo at monthly community meeting

Role Description

Major responsibilities includes a commitment to:

• Be proactive in information sharing, through the mailing list/slack channels, regarding various mentorship cohorts
• Be a bridge between the CNCF staff, mentors, and mentees from kubernetes project
• Be an active contributor, who could identify parts of the project that could get help from mentorship programs
• Be a go-to person for all SIGs to help them with their mentorship proposals
• Be welcoming of everyone by being your unique self
• Be inclusive on contributors, especially with new contributors joining kubernetes project as part of the mentoring process
• Be a leader of the mentoring sub-project with a commitment to its charter

Minimum Skills and Requirements

Skills:

• Be comfortable with general GitHub workflows. You'll be working inside of multiple repositories with different workflows and helping others on the team with troubleshooting.
• Be a team player, making the project welcoming for new mentees and helping other members of the project interested to part in mentorship with the process.
• Be willing and capable of saying "no" as necessary, but try to get to a "yes, and" to help the community achieve its goals. In short, be empathetic.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. A willingness to meet (a lot) of new people is important for this work.

Requirements:

• Member of the [Kubernetes GitHub Org]
• [Reviewer] in the mentoring folder
• Not Necessary, but a previous mentee/mentor in any of the mentorship programme is preferrable

Expected Time Investment

• Four hours a week as a minimal target, might be two hours more during the proposal submission perios

Duration

Ideally, no lead should be in the same position indefinitely. With that in mind,the project would like to see new leadership every 24 months to keep a fresh perspective.

Becoming a Shadow

Any regular contributor to mentoring subproject can put forward their interest to the mentoring lead to become a shadow. If accepted, the objective of the council members is to nurture that shadow into a leadership position in the next 12 months.

Expectations of a Shadow

Consistently communicate and collaborate closely with the lead. The objective is to get you, as the shadown, to be a confident leader of the above responsibilities. Be ready to backfill for them when they are unable to attend a meeting or represent the subproject.