Technical mentor
Summary
The technical mentor helps others do projects. Really, everyone does this, but it’s important enough (and has enough specialized skills) that it deserves an entry here so that people can get credit for doing it and reserve time for it. Mentoring is also relevant when helping other researchers.
Main challenges/pitfalls
Mentoring is hard and a different job from doing things yourself.
Expectations / checklists
Plenty has been written about mentoring… I’m not going to write much more here right now.
Check Garage support for some relevant things.