About Mentor TogetherMentor Together is India's largest structured youth mentoring nonprofit. Since 2009, we have connected young people with mentors who help them find their path. Our app, Mentor To Go, connects college students with volunteer mentors from companies. Mentors support students on four things: wellbeing, career clarity, professional networks and job readiness.

About the role
We work with the Government of Karnataka to bring mentoring to students in more than 100 government colleges across Karnataka. In this role, you help students access mentorship and provide support that helps the mentoring relationship succeed. Two role levels
• Programme Associate: less than 8 years of work experience.
• Senior Programme Associate: 8 years of work experience or more. You apply only once. Through the selection process you will be mapped to either role What you will do
• Build strong relationships with colleges, for example principals, placement officers and teachers.
Travel to colleges in your districts. Run information events and workshops for students.
• Select mentees. Talk to students, interview them and learn what each student needs.
• Bring in and select volunteer mentors. Screen, interview and prepare them.
• Match mentees with mentors on the Mentor To Go app.
• Support each pair after the match. When a pair stops meeting, find out why and help them start again.
• Use the Mentor To Go app and its data to track progress, find gaps and act on them. As a Senior Programme Associate, you will also
• Manage relationships with partner companies and government contacts.
• Find the root causes when pairs do not meet, and propose changes to how the programme works.
• Write clear reports for leadership and funders. Who we are looking for
• You listen well. You build trust quickly with students,



college staff and working professionals.
• You take ownership. You follow through without someone telling you to.
• You notice problems and try new ways to solve them.
• You speak and write Kannada and English.
• You are comfortable with apps, and digital tools, including AI tools.
• Experience in education, youth work, and the social sector is helpful. But it is not required. JoiningYou must be able to join within 15 days of an offer. This role must start at the same time as our programme cycle. For this reason, we cannot consider applicants with a longer notice period. Our hiring process
• Take-home task (about 3–4 hours, over 5 working days). You talk to people yourself, for example students, college staff, mentors or company contacts. You find out what they need from mentoring. Then you propose one change to our programme. (We designed this task to test human

skills:
listening, building trust and understanding people. It does not test planning or Excel work, because AI tools can now help with that.)
• One interview. We discuss your task. We also do some role plays about real situations from the job.
• Reference and transcript checks, then an offer. Details
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Location:
Bangalore
• Type: Full time
• Pay:Program Associates: Rs 380,000
- Rs 656,325
• Senior Program Associates: Rs 574,809
- Rs 861,341 Mentor Together is an equal chance employer. We welcome applicants of every gender, caste, religion, region, language, disability, sexual orientation, marital status and economic background. We make hiring decisions only on skills, experience and fit with the role. We especially encourage applications from people who were first-generation college students or who come from the communities our programmes serve. If you need an adjustment at any step of the hiring process, let the Hiring Manager know, and we will try to accommodate your request.

📌 Programme Associate/Senior Programme Associate – Mentor To Go, Karnataka (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mentor Together
📍 Bengaluru