Mentorship Committee Blog

Kathy Goodson is the chair of the mentorship committee.

How to get started…

Join: Join SCRID, complete your membership profile so that you will be featured in the member directory and get started.

Identify Competencies/Establish Goals: It is best to identify the competencies you want to develop, the goals you want to achieve, or issues you want to tackle.

Mentor Others or Seek Mentoring: SCRID mentoring is meant to foster and harness the peer-to-peer mentoring paradigm, which means that each of us can be a mentor in some areas and need mentoring in others.  We want to honor what each of us bring to the task of interpreting.

Mentoring Tools: SCRID offers a set of tools to facilitate your mentoring process.

Enrich and Engage: You can enrich SCRID by contributing your wisdom through articles, blog posts and discussion forums.

Frequently Asked Questions

MENTORSHIP CHAIR JOB DESCRIPTION

Reports To: SCRID Executive Board
Status: Volunteer

POSITION PURPOSE
To provide members with mentoring opportunities and or mentor training.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit new members
• Recruit mentors and mentees
• Maintain communication with the regional representatives regarding mentoring in their respective areas
• Provide resources, such as mentoring and  mentor training to members
• To create opportunities for mentees at SCRID functions by arranging  mentees to interpret at Board meetings and General meetings
• Check SCRID email a minimum of once per week unless there is an event within the region
• Submit a monthly report
• Submit an annual report for the annual membership meeting
• Attend 75% of all board meetings
• Manage the region budget

TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, ABILITIES

• Current RID or NAD certification preferred
• Experienced in a mentoring relationship as a mentor
• Interpreting experience preferred; or graduate of an ITP/IPP
• SCRID member in good standing;
• Good written, verbal & ASL/PSE communication skills;
• Sensitive to members needs;
• Public speaking skills;

ABILITY TO

• Self-motivation; people skills; organizational skills
• Interface in a mutually cooperative way with SCRID members, Board and volunteers;
• Work as part of a team with others;
• Think “outside-of-the-box”;

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Ability to effectively communicate multiple projects and tasks.
• Computer literate to post board reports to SCRID webpage
• Email literate