Location: Bangalore (with regular travel across Karnataka districts)
Reporting To: Associate Director
Team: Program operations team

Role Purpose
The Senior Program Manager (SPM) will oversee our flagship, government-embedded mentoring programme across the government college network in Karnataka — spanning degree, technical, and engineering colleges across 15+ districts. The programme will reach a total of 25,000 students, providing them with career and AI awareness, and foundational career mentoring (8,000 students).
The role combines operational management of a large-scale programme that combines in-college group mentoring, with digital one-to-one mentoring, that provides students access to career mentors and role models.
The Senior Program Manager will hold accountability for the programme's reach, quality, and outcome targets.
Core Areas of ResponsibilityProgramme Planning & Operational Oversight
Own program-level operational planning — annual, quarterly, and monthly gantts — across two tiers of the mentoring program




Translate programme goals into structured operational approaches
Drive delivery of large-scale, in-college group sessions, across all participating colleges, alongside short-cycle small-group mentoring cohorts - both of which have distinct mentor, program team, and technology configurations.
Maintain operational clarity through prioritisation and sequencing of activities across tiers
Team Leadership
Lead and manage the program operations team (typically 6 members) delivering sessions across districts
Drive goal-setting, performance planning, coaching, and ongoing capability development for the team
Foster accountability, ownership, and engagement aligned with Mentor Together’s culture,
Government & Institutional Partner Engagement
Interface with college leadership, securing institutional coordination, permissions, and continuity.
Strengthen trust-based engagement with college principals, and coordinators, ensuring mentoring is positioned as an impor

📌 Senior Program Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mentor Together
📍 Bengaluru