Remote Mentor

What will you be doing?

We need dedicated, conscientious, and most of all consistent volunteers who want to improve health inequalities across the world. 

Building capacity amongst healthcare professionals requires experienced clinicians to share their clinical knowledge, transferable skills, and problem-solving experience.

The Remote Mentor role is focussed on the effective use of their clinical knowledge and experience in an adapted manner to colleagues in Yemen mentoring them in:

1) a particular clinical or logistical conundrum, for example, undertaking a quality improvement project, publishing a piece of research, starting a new role; 

2) becoming a mentor themself, for their colleagues in Yemen.    

Training in mentoring will be provided with experienced providers of mentoring development.

The Remote Mentor will be a completely virtual role. 

What are we looking for?

An intellectually stimulating role, the Remote Mentor role involves problem solving skills and understanding and analyzing different approaches from different contexts, and re-synthesizing these to a different context. Teaching and training in clinical environments for 3 years would be a vital skill to have for this.  

3 years of experience of effective communication within a health-related field would be very useful.  

The Remote Mentors require experience of a flexible approach with dynamic goal setting and project implementation.  

What difference will you make?

You will be mentoring one of more healthcare workers in Yemen, depending on your time availability.  You will be able to set your own schedule and outcomes after discussing with the mentee what it is that they want to achieve through a mentoring relationship.  

Working in a culturally-sensitive manner, good communication is vital. English is necessary.  Arabic is useful but not vital as a pre-requisite for mentees is to have a good level of English to engage with the mentoring training and communicating with their mentors.  Similarly, experience of healthcare and low-resource settings would be helpful, but not essential. 

Before you apply

All volunteers will be made aware of our ethical guidelines.