About Eskwelabs
Eskwelabs is a bespoke Future-of-Work skills provider that designs and delivers high-touch, project-based learning experiences for individuals and teams. We operate as a dual-engine model: Eskwela, our pedagogical foundation rooted in learning science and structured mentorship, and Labs, our innovation engine where we experiment with emerging technologies, real business workflows, and modern tools like Generative AI.
Since 2019, we have supported thousands of learners and partner organizations by bridging the gap between technical capability and human creativity. Our programs mirror real company environments, combining technical rigor, collaborative problem-solving, and a 5:1 mentor-to-learner ratio to ensure meaningful skill development.
As a social impact-driven organization, we exist to bridge human potential with an unpredictable professional landscape. We prioritize long-term learner success, professional excellence, and sustainable impact in everything we build.
Why join the Mentor Pool?
We are building a community of talented mentors in the field of business analytics to support, coach, and help our students to prepare them for the future of work. As we envision ourselves to equip our learners in data skills, Eskwelabs Mentors play a vital role in the learning journey of our students as they acquire new skills that they may use in the future of work.
Being part of the mentor pool provides you with access to the monthly updates on mentorship opportunities in Eskwelabs recurring and upcoming projects. Shortlisted candidates will be informed about upcoming projects depending on their skills and availability.
Do you have to be a professional trainer/professor to apply?
No. While we value prior experience in education, some of our most successful mentors have come straight from the industry! If you have a strong mastery of the tools acquired at a high-achieving industry team and have a passion for helping others, we can help you to transfer your knowledge into a potent educational experience for our learners.
What will you gain from the experience?
Inspire - Lead our learners to acquire the necessary skills for data science and business analytics. Motivate them to achieve their goals and grow as successful individuals
Grow - Develop your professional skills such as leadership, coaching, and management strategies through the mentorship program
Collaborate - Work and connect with the most passionate and self-driven individuals from the diverse team, instructors, partners, and co-mentors!
Contribute - Share your expertise with our aspiring data analysts and help them create their best learning experience with Eskwelabs
Continuous Learning - Get free access to our learning materials, lesson plans, extra resources, modules, online talks of our educational programs
Flexible Work Schedule - Teach remotely with our online classes wherever you are in the world or teach onsite depending on the projects location.
Diverse Team - Learn and collaborate with our diverse team which come from different backgrounds and work experiences
Earn Extra - Earn extra while working on your day job or while taking your Master's program. We are giving a bonus payment in addition to the base pay depending on the students feedback on our mentors.
About the Role
What we're looking for
You like sharing your knowledge in automation, RPA, and no-code/low-code development.
You know how to use the tools and how to apply the concepts of RPA and citizen development.
You enjoy learning new things and improving your skills & knowledge in building solutions for workflow automation.
You keep up to date with fast-moving industries.
You have the passion to coach and mentor learners in achieving their goals!
You want to work in a fast-moving, dynamic environment with a great team committed to continuous learning.
You have a growth mindset, agile, flexible, a self-starter, and loves learning.
What you will do
To be the
coach
of our students by answering questions and concerns, and help them to do well on and team exercises. Mentors should also give feedback to Eskwelabs about the students progress and performance
To be the
cheerleader
of our students by encouraging them to do challenges. Mentors should also encourage them to work together, make friends among classmates, persevere, and believe in themselves.
What you will not do
Eskwelabs recognizes that you are a busy professional. As such, we aim to minimize the pressure on your time by avoiding the following:
Creating materials. Eskwelabs will create and provide all materials include project instructions, slides, coding notebooks, datasets, etc. or anything else that may be required.
Carrying out lectures. Only instructors carry out lectures, but mentors are present in small group activities and function mainly as facilitators, project consultants, and ad-hoc tutors. You will not have to do the main room lecture as a mentor.
Homework. There is no expectation for any work outside of the designated class hours.
Strict work schedule. While we do have in-person workshops (which are paid more highly), there is no obligation to join those sprints. You can join exclusively remote sprints if that is your preference.
Qualifications
1. Must-haves
You have experience with the given tools or skills, with a preference for those with industry experience.
You have excellent communication skills.
You have the passion to motivate others and go the extra mile to coach our students.
You are approachable and friendly.
2. Nice-to-haves
You have prior experience teaching students or managing teams.
Skills to be Taught
Master the fundamentals of workflow automation by designing, building, and managing automated cloud flows.
Learn to utilize triggers, actions, and connectors to integrate Microsoft 365 services (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint) with external applications.
Implement complex conditional logic using branching, switch cases, and loops to build intelligent, responsive automations.
Write and troubleshoot dynamic expressions and variables to manipulate data and handle complex content within your flows.
Create multi-step approval workflows, including delegation and escalation settings, to streamline business processes.
Develop skills in data operations, such as parsing JSON, filtering arrays, and formatting data for email or Teams notifications.
Apply robust debugging techniques by monitoring flow history, analyzing run logs, and implementing error handling (Try/Catch/Finally patterns).
Explore Robotic Process Automation (RPA) by building desktop flows to automate tasks in legacy applications.
Sample Learning Sprint
You will facilitate coaching sessions to help learners debug logic errors or configuration bottlenecks in their active Power Automate flows.
You will provide feedback on a learners automation architecture, advising them on how to optimize flow performance and maintainability.
You will act as a sounding board for learners as they brainstorm ways to convert manual, repetitive tasks into automated, low-code processes.
You will guide learners through the setup of testing and production environments, ensuring their flows are secure and compliant.
You will facilitate a peer-review session where learners present their automated solutions and provide constructive feedback on each other's logic design.