FAAA Mentoring Program

The 2023 mentoring program will run for 6 months from 14 March 2023.

Only members can participate as mentors and mentees.

Mentors and mentors pay no fees. The program is funded by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as part of the Womens’ Leadership and Development Program.

For the 2023 program, a maximum of 50 mentees will be matched with 50 mentors. Applications will be assessed and selected based on the eligibility criteria. 

Visit this website and complete a short application form.

The information you provide will help us ‘match’ the right mentee with the right mentor, based on experience, skills and what you both want to achieve from the program.

We will contact you via email to confirm whether you’ve been accepted into the program and who has been selected as your mentoring partner.

You should hear from us by late-February 2023 as to whether you have been matched.

If your application is successful, you will need to attend three events – Program Launch, Mid-Program Review and Program Close – all of which will be delivered via Webinars. Please see key dates table above.

You will also be asked to complete the Art of Mentoring online training. The training will take 60 – 90 minutes and will help provide you with the knowledge and skills to have a successful mentoring relationship.

It will be up to each pair to establish their own timetables for their one-on-one meetings, which would probably take place at least monthly throughout the program.

Absolutely! Great mentee/mentor relationships are based first and foremost on trust. Your participation in the program is confidential and you will agree with your mentoring partner how you will handle confidentiality between you.

As mentoring activities are individuated for each mentor / mentee, it is not possible to determine a broad coverage of accredited CPD for the mentoring program. Where an activity in the mentoring program meets qualifying CPD, you may apply the activity to non-accredited CPD (qualifying CPD), up to 12 hours per CPD year, which you self-assess to determine if it meets qualifying CPD. For details of non-accredited CPD (qualifying CPD), please refer to the FPA CPD Policy.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the program, please visit the mentoring program management platform in the first instance. 

You are invited to attend a free information webinar on 6 February 2023 at 12:00pm – 1:00pm AEDT. Register here.

Questions may be directed to the program manager using the Contact Program Manager button on the program management platform or by emailing [email protected].