Mentoring Programmes

The GiLE Foundation is excited to pilot two mentoring programmes in Hungary this year for early career researchers and aspiring diplomats, with a third pilot for young changemakers scheduled to launch in 2024.

Our structured pilot programmes are hybrid, and they will run from September to December 2023.

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Why Mentoring Programmes are important?

Mentoring programs for young adults are like superchargers for success. We team up experienced mentors with aspiring changemakers, early career researchers, and lifelong learners.

Picture this: A mentor’s advice is like a treasure map, helping young adults find their way through life’s twists and turns. This guidance doesn’t just stop with them; it spreads like wildfire, sparking new ideas and creating a chain reaction of inspiration.

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Skill Development

Mentees gain valuable skills and knowledge from experienced mentors, helping them enhance their personal and professional capabilities.

Guidance and Support

Mentors provide guidance, advice, and emotional support, helping mentees navigate challenges and make informed decisions.

Career Advancement

Mentoring can provide insights into career paths, industry trends, and strategies for advancement, boosting mentees' career prospects.

Networking

Mentoring programs often offer opportunities to connect with professionals, peers, and experts, expanding mentees' professional networks.

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Mentoring Programmes

Discover more about the mentoring programmes that the GiLE Foundation is (currently) piloting.

Mentor Programme for Aspiring Diplomats

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This programme is primarily for aspiring diplomats and those interested in international relations.

It involves personalised 1:1 mentoring with experts in the field, workshops on diplomacy-related topics, soft skills training, networking sessions, and study visits to different Embassies in Hungary to gain first-hand experience.

Mentor Programme for Changemakers

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Mentor Programme for Early Career Researchers

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This programme is designed to complement and support the challenging PhD experience for early career researchers.

It offers a guiding hand to help PhD students navigate the complexities of academia, develop essential research-related skills, and to support them to confidently advance towards their research career goals. The mentors in this programme do not replace the role of PhD supervisors.

Program Overview

The GiLE Foundation is thrilled to announce another exciting collaboration with our partners to launch not one, but two pilot mentoring programs. Together, we’re embarking on a journey to empower and uplift young minds, shaping them into tomorrow’s leaders through personalised guidance and transformative experiences
 

Mentoring Programme for Early Career Researchers (Sep-Dec 2023)

This programme is designed to complement and support the challenging PhD experience for early career researchers. It is a transformative program that offers a guiding hand and a nurturing space for PhD students to help them navigate the complexities of academia, develop essential skills (research-related and soft skills related), and to support mentees to confidently advance towards their research career goals. The mentors in this programme do not replace the role of PhD supervisors.

This pilot mentoring program for early career researchers is a partnership between the GiLE Foundation the Association of Hungarian PhD and DLA Candidates (DOSZ) Ambassadors.

The Association of Hungarian PhD and DLA Candidates (Doktoranduszok Országos Szövetsége, DOSZ) focuses primarily on doctoral candidates, advocating their needs. The organisation has developed over the last three decades and has been constantly improved. All Hungarian university doctoral candidate associations are members of the organisation and delegate to its general assembly.   The third pillar of the organisation, established only two years ago, is the Ambassador System, which aims to support a significant number of doctoral students from abroad, mainly from developing countries.

Mentoring Programme for Aspiring Diplomats (Sep-Dec 2023)

Step into the world of diplomacy with our unique mentoring programme that is designed for aspiring diplomats. It is designed to supplement university curricula to empower aspiring diplomats on their path to global leadership. This programme involves 1:1 mentoring sessions, interactive workshops on diplomacy-related topics, soft skills training, networking sessions, and study visits to Embassies in Hungary to gain first-hand experience from seasoned diplomats.

This pilot mentoring program for aspiring diplomats is a partnership between the GiLE Foundation the International Diplomatic Students’ Association.

IDSA seeks to bring together students interested in developing greater knowledge of International Relations, Debating and various other Soft skills as well as provide a platform where they may create meaningful connections. During active semesters, we provide embassy visits, lectures with experts, soft skill courses and social events for our members.

Mentoring Programme for Aspiring Changemakers (coming soon)

Calling all young changemakers with a passion to make a difference! Our program is on a mission to empower and amplify the potential of the next generation of leaders and innovators, who are destined to become the driving force of positive change in their local communities. In partnership with inspiring and experienced mentors, this transformative journey is structured to include 1:1 mentoring, cultivate essential skills, ignite visionary thinking, and foster a deeper sense of purpose, thus providing the perfect launchpad for aspiring agents of change to thrive.

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Our Technology Partner

StellarUp x GiLE Foundation

The GiLE Foundation is proud to have a strategic technology partnership with StellarUp.

It is a customizable talent development and engagement solution, that enables us to unlock the limitless potential of young changemakers, early career researcher, and lifelong learners in our network and community.

Events, Marketing & Communications

The following roles are currently available:

The role consists of:

  • Manage pre-event planning of events, including assisting with the promotions, logistics, and general management of events, workshops and training courses.
  • Liaise with (strategic) partners, youth networks and key contact persons where relevant.
  • Manage feedback loops and produce post-event evaluations and content to inform future events.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • High level of organisational skills
  • Attention to detail;
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
  • Time-management skills
  • Flexible, target-driven, and proactive.

The role consists of:

  • Launch and coordinate fundraising campaigns to support the projects and activities of the organisation.
  • Further develop an internal guideline document that briefly summarises our various types of fundraising techniques.
  • Perform risk management to minimize any risks related to fundraising.
  • Continuously explore creative ways to raise funds, including continuously searching
    for potential donors or fundraising partners.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Excellent communication and writing skills,
  • Excellent way of expressing ones thoughts, and having persuasive tactics.
  • Good written and research skills to prepare compelling concept notes to help generate funds.

The role consists of:

  • Assisting with the preparation, promotion and management of scientific conferences (hybrid).
  • Keeping in contact with speakers and presenters.
  • Managing and coordinating event logistics on the day of the event.
  • Producing post-event evaluations and feedback to inform future events.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • High level of organisational skills
  • Attention to detail;
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
  • Time-management skills
  • Flexible, target-driven, and proactive.

The role consists of:

  • Assist with the development and constant review of the brand and marketing strategy.
  • Ensure that the organisation’s branding and artwork for all its activities and projects is
    consistent and appropriately aligned with the Brand Standards Guide.
  • Consistently promote the organisation, its projects and its activities in an effective
    and efficient manner, together with a team, through a unified brand voice.

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Creativity; and attention to details;

Website, Developer &
IT-related roles

The following roles are currently available:

The role consists of:

  • Create custom web experiences with the latest web technologies.
  • Ensure that the website is appealing to the target audience and catches attention.
  • Design accessible web user interfaces (UI), enhance platforms with custom style sheets.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience with building visually appealing websites from the design standpoint.
  • Experience in using common CMS systems, like WordPress and Drupal.
  • Comfortable with CSS and preferably has a basic understanding of popular web technologies and frameworks.
  • High level understanding of web design concepts, UI principles
  • Basic experience in app UI design (for example the UI builder of Android Studio).

The role consists of:

  • Keep website fully functional at all times, inform colleagues of any expected downtime.
  • Deploy and update WordPress ecosystem components.
  • Make sure the site’s user interface is easily accessible for most users.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Thrives in the WordPress ecosystem, is aware of new trends and has a good command of the most popular web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript);
  • Has a UX-first mindset, is able to create modern and accessible wireframes/concepts and iterate fast on ideas;
  • Can develop complex webpages using Theme Builders like Elementor or Divi;
  • Has experience in creating webpages with WordPress, using plugins;
  • Is able to provide technical support to all users of the website(s).

Content Creation
& Design

The following roles are currently available:

The role consists of:

  • Produce written or verbal content that is clear and persuasive for our target audience for various platforms in a way that is consistent with our brand strategy and voice (articles, blogs, podcasts, newsletter texts, etc.).

  • Assist with the development of creative ideas and concepts for advertising, social
    media, or crowdfunding  campaigns.

  • Help drive brand consistency across all communication platforms

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience in copywriting for multiple social media campaigns.
  • Creative and curiosity.
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate with team members.
  • High attention to details.
  • Creative copy writing experience an added bonus.

The role consists of:

  • Designing unique marketing material that’s aligned with the creative direction and overall brand of the foundation and its projects.
  • Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements where required.
  • Ensure that the overall branding and artwork is maintained appropriately and consistently across all platforms and for all marketing and promotion material.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Demonstrable design experience across various platforms with design applications, software and technologies, such as Canva, Quark Xpress, InDesign or Illustrator, and photo-editing software such as Photoshop.
  • A keen eye for aesthetics and details;
  • Ability to translate campaigns into a visual creative direction

The role consists of:

  • Edit professional videos that are creative, engaging, and appropriately designed for our target audience.
  • Continuously discover and implement new editing technologies and industry’s best practices to maximize efficiency.

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications required, however, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • solid experience with digital technology and editing software packages.
  • creative mind and storytelling skills.

The role consists of:

  • Launch our TikTok platform, grow our audience, and maximise user engagement and growth goals with high performing content.
  • Developing creative video content from scratch/available content
  • Stay on top of recent platform trends and how they could be used to promote the organisation.

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience in making TikTok or short video content creation
  • Creative and curious.
  • High attention to details.

The role consists of:

  • Proof-read and correct documents and texts for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors
  • Verify factual correctness of information (e.g. dates and statistics).
  • Check and adjust text for style, readability, clarity and readability;

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Familiarity with the proofreading techniques and tools;
  • Attention to details;