Lead Mentor Program Facilitator

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Facilitator to deliver professional mentoring, leadership-development, and career-development programming for Marine Corps Systems Command personnel. The Lead Facilitator will deliver engaging virtual and hybrid learning experiences for mentors, mentees, situational mentors, supervisors, and other members of the command workforce.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate virtual and hybrid mentor-program events for annual cohorts of approximately 30-45 participants.
• Deliver program orientation covering expectations, roles and responsibilities, communication strategies, and practices for successful mentoring partnerships.
• Deliver initial mentor training for individuals who are new to mentoring.
• Facilitate a structured matching event that enables prospective mentors and mentees to interact and assess professional compatibility.
• Facilitate formal midpoint check-ins that allow mentors and mentees to reflect on goals, development activities, progress, and partnership effectiveness.
• Deliver three to four career-development events during each annual mentor-program cycle.
• Facilitate topics related to mentoring, technical proficiency, interpersonal skills, communication, problem solving, organizational awareness, agility, influence, and other approved professional-development topics.
• Facilitate the formal program-completion or celebration event, including recognition of mentors, celebration of mentee achievements, lessons-learned discussions, and participant identification of future career-development goals.
• Deliver optional stand-alone mentoring-skills workshops on subjects such as active listening, constructive feedback, goal setting, and boundary setting.
• Support optional programming for newly appointed supervisors on topics such as conflict resolution, performance management, difficult conversations, delegation, and organizational leadership.
• Adapt delivery methods to provide an equitable experience for both in-person and virtual participants during hybrid events.
• Maintain active participant engagement and ensure that stated event objectives are addressed.
• Review and use Government-approved agendas, slides, exercises, handouts, pre-work, and other curriculum materials.
• Coordinate with the Program Coordinator regarding participant needs, event logistics, technical requirements, attendance, and follow-up actions.
• Be present and ready in the physical or virtual classroom at least 30 minutes before the scheduled event start time.
• Maintain professional decorum, business-appropriate presentation, respectful communication, and clear instructional delivery.
• Protect participant information and comply with applicable accessibility, security, facility-access, and administrative requirements.

Requirements

• Demonstrated adult-learning and professional facilitation experience.
• Relevant experience delivering mentoring, leadership-development, career-development, supervisory-development, or workforce-development programming.
• Experience facilitating virtual and hybrid events.
• Ability to engage adult learners and facilitate interactive discussions, exercises, networking activities, and reflective learning.
• Strong presentation, communication, group-management, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to facilitate sensitive discussions involving professional goals, mentoring relationships, communication challenges, and workplace development.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a Program Coordinator, Government representatives, other facilitators, and program participants.
• Ability to travel to Quantico and Stafford, Virginia, when assigned to hybrid or in-person events.
• Ability to meet applicable Marine Corps installation and facility-access requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering or supporting a formal organizational mentoring program.
• Experience conducting structured mentor and mentee matching or networking activities.
• Experience working with Federal Government, Department of Defense, military, acquisition, technical, or professional workforces.
• Professional credentials related to facilitation, training, coaching, mentoring, leadership development, organizational development, or adult education.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and hybrid classroom delivery.
• Familiarity with Section 508 digital accessibility requirements.

Work Location: Virtual and hybrid delivery, including in-person events at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and the Tech Parkway Campus in Stafford, Virginia.