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+# Mentoring Lead Handbook
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+## Overview
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+The Mentoring Lead role is created to help upstream Kubernetes contributors to participates in various mentorship programs like [GSoC](mentoring/programs/google-summer-of-code.md), [GSoD](mentoring/programs/google-season-of-docs.md), [LFX Mentorship](mentoring/programs/lfx-mentorship.md) and many more as an independent organisation or under Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF). 
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+## Responsibilities
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+Major responsibilities incluedes a commitment to: 
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+- Be proactive in information sharing regarding various mentorship cohorts
+- Be a bridge between the CNCF employees and the mentors from kubernetes project
+- Be an active contributor, who could identify parts of the project that could get help from mentorship programs
+- Be a go-to person for all SIGs to help them with their mentorship proposals
+- Be welcoming of everyone by being your unique self
+- Be inclusive on contributors, especially with new contributors joining kubernetes project as part of the mentoring process
+- Be a leader of the mentoring sub-project with a commitment to its charter
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+### Minimum Skills and Requirements
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+Skills:
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+- Be comfortable with general GitHub workflows. You'll be working inside of multiple repositories with different workflows and helping others on the team with troubleshooting.
+- Be a team player, making the project welcoming for new mentees and helping other members of the project interested to part in mentorship with the process.
+- Be willing and capable of saying "no" as necessary, but try to get to a "yes, and" to help the community achieve its goals. In short, be empathetic.
+- Strong written and verbal communication skills. A willingness to meet (a lot) of new people is important for this work.
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+Requirements:
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+- Member of the [Kubernetes GitHub Org]
+- [Reviewer] in the mentoring folder
+- Not Necessary, but a previous mentee/mentor in any of the mentorship programme is preferrable
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+#### Expected Time Investment
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+- Four hours a week as a minimal target, might be two hours more during the proposal submission perios
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+#### Duration  
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+Ideally, no lead should be in the same position indefinitely. With that in mind,the project would like to see new leadership every 24 months to keep a fresh perspective. 
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