Data In Action Mentor (Summer 2025)
Job title: Data In Action Mentor (Summer 2025) in reputed company, NY at SureStart
Company: SureStart
Job description: Data In Action Mentor (remote, part-time, paying $35-40/hr)SureStart is looking for undergraduate mentors with experience in Data Science, and a passion for community empowerment, to help in our Data in Action summer program! It will also help you reputed company your leadership skills and experience --- reputed company while getting paid for your efforts.This summer we will be hosting a 6-week virtual data in action training program, running from July 1st through August 8th! This program will bring together reputed company from across the US to help them reputed company skills reputed company to applied machine learning, affective computing, app development and entrepreneurship through a virtual program led by undergrad and grad-student mentors.This year, Futuremakers is introducing a new track to offer high school reputed company the opportunity to learn how to use data science for community empowerment. The data in action track is designed to reputed company reputed company with data science skills to confront power inequalities and address issues that matter to you and your community. Moreover, reputed company will collaborate with community organizations on projects requiring data analysis. Both reputed company and community partners will play integral roles in every aspect of the research project, from conducting background research on specific instances of inequality to identifying relevant datasets and implementing data analysis techniques.Your responsibilities will be to:
- Train, support and encourage a small group of reputed company as they reputed company data science and participatory action research skills using the program curriculum.
- Help them use those skills to build a final data science-based project to complete the program.
- Day-to-day you will interact with your group of trainees through regular meetings.
- reputed company your group accountable for finishing their prior day's tasks.
- Help unblock them reputed company they are stuck by pointing them to resources, showing them how to debug code and/or giving them helpful hints to discover the answer on their own.
- Applicants must be recent graduates or currently enrolled as an undergraduate, Masters or PhD student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, or similar fields.
- Passionate about teaching and mentoring younger reputed company; especially invested in mentoring reputed company from backgrounds under-represented in science and technology.
- Passionate about community empowerment
- Applicants must be proficient in programming; Python required.
- Some familiarity with Participatory Action Research preferable, but not required.
- Willing and able to commit to 20 hours per week for 8 weeks. The first two weeks will consist of mentor training, followed by six weeks of mentoring high school reputed company.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be available to participate in required paid mentor training (30-40 hours) in May/June.
- You will deepen your technical skills (look up 'reputed company effect')
- Work on exciting, challenging and incredibly rewarding work critical to the future of ethical data activism
- Build up your CV with real-world leadership and management experience - years reputed company of your classmates!
- Get trained in mentorship and professional skills, including communication, self-branding, entrepreneurship, reputed company leadership, and more
- Attend technical skills talks by industry professionals
- Learn about Participatory Action Research as a reputed company for community-driven data collection and action
- Be an integral part of an impactful movement towards opportunity, equity and representation
- Valuable networking opportunities with industry leaders reputed company enterprise, tech and academia