Odyssey Program is Accepting Applications
Are you looking for a mentor to help as you plan to expand your career in research administration? Are you someone who is able to share your expertise? The Odyssey Program may be just the place to develop career skills and grow as mentors and mentees!
The Odyssey Program matches mentees with mentors that are SRAI members to gain valuable professional growth by guiding mentees through the aspects of the field that they may be struggling to fully master while setting goals to be a more successful research administrator.
What are benefits of having a mentor?
- Be encouraged and empowered in personal development.
- Identify and achieve career goals.
- Increase your confidence.
- Develop and maintain a broader perspective on career options and opportunities.
- Develop mentoring/coaching skills.
What are benefits of being a mentor?
- Leadership experience.
- Share knowledge to a new group of research administrators to continue to grow our field.
- Networking.
- Gain insight into challenges that newer research administrators are seeing and incorporating those into current roles.
Learn more about the Odyssey Program at the November 8 Coffee Talk: Goal Makers and Gifted Writers: SRAI Mentoring.
Submit your application to be a mentor or mentee by December 1!
Authored by
Tonya Edvalson, Operations Manager, University of Utah Health
SRAI Odyssey Program Committee
Michelle Moscato, Business Manager, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
SRAI Odyssey Program Committee