Facilitator

A-G Associates•Washington, DC

About The Position

The Facilitator plans and leads meetings, workshops, focus groups, strategy sessions, team-building events, training briefs, and project-launch sessions for the Federal Transit Administration. The role creates conditions for productive participation, synthesizes input in real time, remains neutral, and turns discussions into clear decisions, recommendations, and next steps. The ideal candidate is composed, inclusive, organized, and comfortable working with staff, managers, executives, and external stakeholders. The position includes planning session objectives, agendas, exercises, discussion guides, presentations, templates, and supporting materials; designing virtual, in-person, and hybrid sessions; facilitating group engagement; documenting session outputs; and coordinating with project leads, subject-matter experts, and client stakeholders. Meeting outputs and supporting documentation are generally due within one week of the event. The role also tracks activities against approved scope, schedule, and level-of-effort hours, and identifies risks early.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in industrial or organizational psychology, adult education, business, public administration, or a closely related professional field.
At least seven years of relevant professional experience, including demonstrated experience planning and facilitating meetings or working sessions.
Experience facilitating groups to achieve defined objectives and produce usable decisions, recommendations, or action plans.
Experience interacting effectively with clients at all levels, including senior executives, managers, and staff.
Strong oral communication, active listening, real-time synthesis, writing, judgment, and client-service skills.
Ability to work within the United States, travel to approved locations when required, and complete applicable client suitability or background requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience facilitating for a federal agency, public-sector organization, or another complex stakeholder environment.
Experience with strategic planning, organizational development, change management, leadership development, process improvement, or workforce programs.
Experience leading multi-day conferences, sensitive discussions, focus groups, team-building sessions, or executive working sessions.
Formal facilitation, organizational-development, change-management, or related certification.
Proficiency with virtual collaboration tools, breakout-session design, polling, whiteboarding, and accessible hybrid facilitation.

Responsibilities

Clarify session objectives, participants, decision points, sensitivities, and desired outputs with the client and project team.
Develop agendas, run-of-show plans, exercises, discussion guides, presentations, templates, and supporting materials.
Prepare virtual, in-person, and hybrid session designs that reflect participant needs and accessibility considerations.
Facilitate meetings, workshops, multi-day conferences, focus groups, strategy sessions, team-building events, and project launches.
Engage participants with different communication styles and manage conflict, ambiguity, uneven participation, and sensitive dynamics.
Maintain neutrality and help groups achieve common objectives without advocating a position.
Synthesize participant input in real time to clarify themes, decisions, recommendations, dependencies, and unresolved issues.
Produce concise post-session summaries capturing contributions, decisions, action items, owners, and next steps.
Deliver accurate meeting outputs and supporting documentation within the required timeframe, generally within one week of the event.
Coordinate with project leads, subject-matter experts, and client stakeholders throughout preparation and follow-up.
Track preparation, delivery, and follow-up activities against approved scope, schedule, and level-of-effort hours.
Identify facilitation risks early and recommend adjustments that protect session outcomes and client relationships.