Bridge Program Education Manager

Location: Remote | Start Date: Immediate | Benefits: Based on qualifications | Application Deadline: February 28th, 2025 

Build infrastructure. Build leaders.

Engineers in Action is hiring an Education Manager. EIA seeks to alleviate rural poverty by leveraging the resources of our global partners to engage under-served communities and their governments to implement life-changing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects and the bridges needed to access them, simultaneously providing solutions to rural poverty and building local capacity to maintain those solutions for generations to come. The volunteers who help build those bridges become the leaders our world needs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Bridge Program Education Manager will specialize in leading the education of Bridge Program University Chapters and our Virtual Capstone Program, managing our online education platform (BridgeEDU), organizing the content in the Bridge Binder, and overseeing any content or policy updates from the field programs. As EIA expands its WASH Program, the Education Manager will also assist and advise in developing educational content for new student-focused WASH Programs. The ideal candidate is a young professional with a growth-oriented mindset and a passion for international development, experiential learning pedagogy, student empowerment, educational technology, and civil engineering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

EDUCATE UNIVERSITY TEAMS

    1. Monitor and assess student learning.

    2. Update and modify existing courses based upon the needs and feedback from students, ensuring that all available resources are kept up to date.

    3. Manage the eiaeducation.org server and OpenEdx installation. Ensure this is kept up to date and free of bugs.

    4. Answer student queries and hold working meetings with student groups to aid in their design and project development.

    5. Manage and strengthen the relationships between the EIA Bridge Program and partner universities by supporting current university teams and helping form new university teams. 

    6. Serve as the EIA technical reviewer for student content (e.g., Review Calls).

    7. Manage the Virtual Capstone Program.

COORDINATE UNIVERSITY TEAMS

    1. Support the Bridge Program Coordinator with the project application process when necessary.

    2. Support the Country Program Managers with evaluating preliminary designs.

    3. Using Basecamp, ensure that student project schedules are developed, communicated, and followed. The Review Call process in particular is a major responsibility of the Education Manager. 

    4. Provide technical and communications support for Bridge Program University Chapters. 

    5. Help students find resources in Google Drive.

    6. Coordinate participating universities in the Virtual Capstone Program. 

    7. Check-in on student progress to ensure that university teams meet all deadlines, feel supported,  and are on track for a successful and timely project implementation.

DEVELOP AND UPDATE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTENT

    1. Aid in the development of new online courses in conjunction with volunteer professional engineers and the field programs.

    2. When pertinent, help develop new design, construction, and operations content for staff and student teams.

    3. Manage and update the Bridge Binder to track all organizational changes.

FUNDRAISE

    1. Aid the Bridge Program Director in the writing, editing, and development of various grants.

    2. Develop new avenues for fundraising (e.g., grants, marketing opportunities, etc.).

    3. Participate in the end of year fundraising campaign. 

WORK IN THE FIELD

    1. Spend (at minimum) one month of the year supporting field programs in either Eswatini or Bolivia as a “Field Engineer in Charge”. Longer stays are encouraged.

    2. Help field staff with project coordination.

    3. Document all relevant incidents and information (e.g., technical issues, communication issues, safety concerns) from the build season to help improve content for the following year. 

CONFERENCE

    1. Take the lead on organizing conference roles amongst EIA staff; manage the Basecamp and Google Drive conference lists. 

    2. Support the Bridge Program Coordinator and Development Director in creating the conference timetable.

    3. Lead sessions for design and construction workshops during the conference.

    4. Organize and execute the photo contest.

    5. Assist with organization and coordination for conferences (e.g., catering, meals, printing, lodging, etc.).

QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Passion for EIA’s mission.

  2. Undergraduate degree in civil engineering with preference towards a structural engineering focus.

  3. Instruction experience in the field of civil engineering at the college level (e.g., teaching assistant) with a preference towards online teaching experience or experience in a bridge project with the EIA Bridge Program.

  4. Passion for integrating experiential learning pedagogy into traditional engineering curricula.

  5. Experience in volunteer management, student empowerment, engineering design, construction management and/or program management, with strong preference for international development experience.

  6. A positive, optimistic, and can-do attitude with the ability to work with or without direction and/or direct supervision.

  7. Reliable, self-starter, highly organized, and excellent time management and communication skills.

  8. Ability to represent the organization in a professional manner to external partners.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Familiarity with web design and comfortable using a command line interface.

  2. Willingness to troubleshoot software issues and work with freelance developers to fix bugs, update, or add features to the BridgeEDU program.

  3. Past experience as a bridge designer on a project with the EIA Bridge Program.

LOCATION

Current Bridge Program staff work from Denver, CO; Cochabamba, Bolivia; and Mbabane, Eswatini. The Bridge Program Education Manager would ideally be located in one of these cities, but the position can also be done remotely from the location of the applicant’s choice.

BENEFITS

  1. A $300/month stipend is added to the paycheck to help cover healthcare.

  2. A 401k plan is available with the option for employees to invest 401k savings in Schwab’s full investment portfolio, but there is currently no company match.

  3. 4 weeks paid time off per calendar year.