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Roles and Responsibilities of
Mentor
ing Facilitator

  • Set up mentee/mentor pairs
  • Establish local system for documenting and tracking these pairs
  • Provide oversight for their Department, Division, or Organized Research Unit (ORU) mentoring program
  • Disseminate goals and expectations of program to faculty
  • Troubleshoot—be the “go to” person for problems that arise
  • Provide feedback to mentors and mentees as needed
  • Collect data—process and outcome (e.g. are meetings taking place, what is covered in these meetings, satisfaction, problems, etc.)
  • Work with the UCSF Director of Faculty mentoring to:
    •  collect and analyze data from their Department, Division, or ORU
    •  disseminate findings and recommendations
    • attend mentoring seminars and workshops
    • attend yearly mentoring summit
  • Establish group mentoring programs and/or work with other mentoring facilitators and the Director of Faculty Mentoring to run such programs
  • As with other leadership positions, the mentoring facilitators must have dedicated time set aside to fulfill their responsibilities.