SayPro Student Success Mentor Programme

Description

• Provide weekly mentoring for elementary or middle school students through 1:1 meetings or small group facilitation. Mentoring sessions aim to increase academic engagement and social emotional skills, as well as provide academic support focusing on literacy and math skills.
• Serve a total of 900 service hours over the 10-month service term. Members must meet monthly benchmarks and serve an average of 24 hours per week.
• Manage a caseload of 10-12 students through weekly 1:1 and/or small-group meetings. including documentation and data entry to capture services provided. Follow all and distri policies and procedures around proteing and recording student data.
• Serve as a produive member of the support team on campus. The Program Manager funions as the site supervisor for Mentors. Meet with the Program Manager at least once per week for supervision and caseload support.
• Proaively build relationships with teachers, campus staff, community partners, and families for a student-centered approach to support. Initiate conta and communicate regularly with other adults who influence your students’ success.
• Model positive and appropriate behavior as a part of the campus community. Uphold all campus-based policies and procedures and support students in their understanding and adopting of these rules.
• Contribute to campus climate by implementing a student-led service-learning proje during the school year. Service-learning projes build civic engagement by conneing what students are learning with real-world aivities and issues.
• Collaborate with the Program Manager to implement school-wide services to foster a positive school climate and address school-level risk faors. Engage parents and families in school-wide supports to further build wraparound services for students.
• Support summer enrichment aivities during the month of June including group supervision, lesson planning, and aivity support during summer programs.
• Follow all policies and procedures including documenting service hours, attending orientation and ongoing training throughout the service year, and complete Life After training and aivities.

Please visit our website at www.southernafricayouth.org Email: info@southernafricayouth.org Tel: + 27 (0) 11 071 1903 Founded in 2005 Southern Africa Youth Project is a Youth development institution that strives to enable communities to use technology for their advancement. We do this through educational support for the girl child, capacity building for the unemployed youth and linking unemployed youth to jobs and opportunities. We enable access to Technology, Education, Health and Employment. For courses visit academy.southernafricayouth.org