EMI is excited to offer two- to three-year early career development programme for young design professionals. We’re calling it the EMI Fellowship. Through the Fellowship, EMI will disciple and develop young engineers and architects in a deeper and more comprehensive way than internships allow. We aim to raise up the next generation of Christian design professionals to be professionally competent and spiritually mature that they may be influencers in the Church and in the design profession worldwide.
—Rachel Su, Civil Engineering Fellow, EMI Canada
Fellows will complete a thoughtful spiritual formation program that will grow them as lifelong followers of Jesus. At the same time, they will gain significant professional experience, training, and competence to advance them toward their professional goals. Each fellow will serve in at least two EMI locations, allowing them to gain valuable cross-cultural experience and bring their own diversity of ideas across EMI’s worldwide teams.
—Natalie Thompson, Civil Engineering Fellow, EMI USA
The Fellowship fills in a number of gaps within the program and ministry of EMI all while promoting our core values of Design, Discipleship, and Diversity.
In many of our teams, EMI has a significant experience gap between interns and long-term staff. Fellows will help bridge that gap by providing increased production capacity, mid-level support to our staff, and deeper engagement in our projects—all while they are learning and growing professionally.
The Fellowship fills a recruiting gap for EMI by providing a continued path of involvement for young professionals who want to pursue long-term EMI staff, yet need additional training to take on leadership roles. The Fellowship also deepens EMI’s spiritual impact by launching spiritually mature kingdom & mission-minded young professionals into the design industry.
Find out more about the Fellowship Programme at EMI at emiworld.org/us/fellowships