We are seeking volunteers with experience in software development or technical hiring for a high-impact role as a tech mentor. Volunteering as a tech mentor is invaluable and crucial work that will have a real impact on our developers, former Onja students, as well as for those who will follow them.
Your Role as a Tech Mentor- Offering technical assistance, advice, and coaching in the software development realm when the developers get stuck. Sometimes these are React-specific issues, but more often it’s more about how to approach the problem.
- Offering assistance advice and coaching in terms of professionalism. This is likely to include communication skills, time management, balancing expectations, and anything else non-technical that relates to working as a professional remote developer.
- We have a discord community where technical mentors and developers communicate when developers need help.
About our developers- Mostly female, all African, and from underprivileged backgrounds.
- Each developer graduated high school in the top 1% of their peers and was selected for our programme from an initial pool of 200,000 students.
- During their training, they have spent over 4,000 hours learning and writing HTML5, JavaScript, React, Redux, TypeScript, and React Native and achieved advanced English level (B2-C1).
- After their training, Onja places the students in positions as software developers in European and US tech companies. Their technical skills have also expanded. We have now developers that can use other technologies such as Cypress, Next.js, Golang, or PostgreSQL. This is where your contribution to technical mentoring is invaluable.
- With a model proving to be highly impactful, we are now focused on scaling and training hundreds of students in the coming years who will also benefit from the tech mentoring program.
How It Works- We schedule a call with you to explain more about the Onja initiative and what the role looks like. If your values and experience align with our mission, we can schedule an introductory call with you and one of our developers.
- Developers will reach out to you to request an appointment during your times of availability. You can increase/decrease your availability according to what is most helpful and works for you and your mentees.
- We have 18 developers that work currently at Onja – in case one or more of them get stuck, they will reach out to you during your time of availability.
- If you are keen but worried about the time commitment let us know and we should be able to work something out.
- We suggest using Google Meet or Zoom for calls.
