Lucy Mentoring Program

Aims & Objectives

The Lucy Mentoring Program is an innovative leadership program with a primary focus on undergraduate women in university studying business, finance, accounting and law. The Program aims to inspire, motivate and educate women about the opportunities available for employment and leadership in the private and public sectors. This is being achieved by establishing relationships between students and mentors who are senior working professionals. The objectives are to:

• Communicate to women the diversity of opportunities available for them in the corporate sector and public domain and the personal advantages of achieving job satisfaction;
• Ensuring women, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, are able to access the Program;
• Provide an opportunity for women to work with business and professional senior managers;
• Provide women with access to a network of senior managers; and
• Provide women with a Program which will encourage active decision-making about their careers.

How the program works at UWS

Eligible students will be invited to an Applicants’ Meeting, an evening meeting late in April on Parramatta Campus

The successful applicants will be notified by the end of April and will meet early May at an evening meeting on Parramatta Campus for the Mentee Workshop

Students and mentors meet for Session 1, a lunch time meeting at Women’s College, Sydney University in the second half of May

Between Session 1 and Session 2 students will undertake some 35 hours of work-based activities (WBA) with their mentor to get an insight into her daily work life

Early August all students from UWS and Sydney Uni join for the Mentee Debrief, over lunch on Parramatta Campus

All mentors and students meet for Session 2, an afternoon to early evening event in Sydney CBD towards the end of August

More information for students

More information for mentors