Professional Education Facilitator, Miami, FL

Professional Education Facilitator Role Overview

The Professional Education Facilitator is responsible for delivering, facilitating, and supporting high-quality professional education and continuing education programs for working professionals, executives, and organizational partners in Miami, FL. This role focuses on engaging, practice-based learning experiences that drive strong participant outcomes and an excellent learner experience.

This is a delivery-focused role for a skilled facilitator who thrives in professional and executive learning environments. The Facilitator delivers instruction across a range of formats and learner groups, ensuring learning stays interactive, relevant, and aligned with defined program objectives. Professional and continuing education of this kind is shaped by standards from bodies such as the Association for Talent Development, the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training, and the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.

Key Responsibilities

Learning Facilitation and Delivery

• Facilitate high-quality professional education sessions using in-person, hybrid, and online formats.
• Deliver learner-centered, interactive, and applied learning aligned with established outcomes.
• Support guest speakers, instructors, and industry experts in effective program delivery.
• Adapt facilitation approaches to meet the needs of diverse professional audiences and organizational contexts.

Learner Experience and Support

• Serve as a primary point of contact for participants during program delivery.
• Support learner engagement, participation, and progression.
• Provide guidance and feedback aligned with program requirements.
• Foster a professional, inclusive, and supportive learning environment.

Program Support and Quality Assurance

• Support program leads in preparing learning materials, session plans, and delivery schedules.
• Contribute to program evaluation through learner feedback and reflective practice.
• Support continuous improvement of offerings based on data, feedback, and best practices.
• Ensure delivery aligns with quality assurance processes and applicable professional standards.

Employer and Industry Engagement

• Engage professionally with employer clients, sponsors, and external partners during program delivery.
• Support customized and in-company professional education programs, responding flexibly to client needs.
• Represent the organization positively in all external interactions.

Digital Learning and Technology

• Use digital learning platforms and instructional tools effectively.
• Facilitate virtual learning sessions using approved systems.
• Support learners in navigating online learning environments.

General Responsibilities

• Engage in ongoing professional development to maintain facilitation and subject expertise.
• Support recruitment, marketing, or showcase activities related to professional education programs as needed.
• Comply with organizational policies related to equity, diversity, inclusion, data protection, and health and safety.
• Perform additional duties consistent with the scope and level of the role.

Candidate Profile

Education and Qualifications

• Required: a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
• Preferred: a graduate degree or professional certification related to training, education, or professional development.
• Preferred: teaching, training, or facilitation credentials, such as an instructional certification, coaching accreditation, or train-the-trainer qualification.

Required Experience and Knowledge

• Experience facilitating training, workshops, or professional learning for adult learners.
• Experience delivering interactive, learner-centered sessions.
• Experience working with professional or industry-based audiences.
• Understanding of inclusive learning practices for diverse groups.

Preferred Experience and Knowledge

• Experience delivering professional education, executive education, or employer-funded programs.
• Experience with online or hybrid program delivery.
• Experience in higher education or professional education environments.

Skills, Competencies, and Personal Attributes

• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage, motivate, and support adult learners.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to adapt delivery to different learning styles and professional contexts.
• Comfort using digital learning platforms and collaboration tools.
• Professional, approachable, and learner-focused, with a flexible, solutions-oriented mindset.
• Strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Willingness to work flexible hours, including evenings or weekends when required.

Who Thrives as a Professional Education Facilitator

This is a delivery role at heart, and the strongest candidates are facilitators first. They make professional learning land for working adults, interactive, applied, and tied to clear outcomes, and they adapt easily across short courses, workshops, bootcamps, micro-credentials, and bespoke employer programs. Subject credibility matters, but so does the skill to read a room of professionals or executives and adjust in real time.

The participant experience is the product. People who do well here act as a steady point of contact through a program, support engagement and progression, give feedback that helps, and hold an inclusive, supportive learning environment together for diverse professional audiences.

Finally, this role is employer-connected. The best fit works comfortably with sponsors and in-company clients, flexes delivery to organizational needs, uses digital learning platforms confidently, and is willing to work flexible hours, including evenings or weekends, when program delivery calls for it.

About Excelon Associates

Excelon Associates is a retained executive search firm founded in 2007, headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, with offices in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida. The firm specializes in leadership and operational appointments across higher education and professional training sectors, identifying individuals who combine facilitation excellence, subject credibility, and a genuine commitment to learner success.

This Professional Education Facilitator role is a confidential search conducted by Excelon Associates, with a recruiter as the single point of contact through screening, interviews, and offer. You can explore the firm’s higher education recruitment practice, browse current open roles, or review recent campaigns to see the kinds of searches Excelon runs.

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