Roles/responsibilities
- Be a resource person for your apprentice
- Helping them to scope out their project, making sure it's staying on track
- Communicating with the organization administrators.
- On a day-to-day basis, you might be doing code reviews, helping the apprentice to find resources that will help them over hurdles, or helping to shepherd a young contributor in the ways of the Drupal Ninjas.
Benefits
- Stipend (if applicable) will depend on the nature of the role (development, design, business, etc.), level of expertise, and involvement in the project; this will often times be determined by the level of expertise/involvement of the apprentice.
Skills required
- Competent/Advanced skills in the area of your expertise
- Kindness, patience, and being good at explaining things.
- Extra bonus if you've mentored a successful student before!
Time Commitment
- Actual time requirement will vary dramatically by apprentice/project. But plan on roughly ~5-10 hrs/week