Application for Pod Leader Fall 2025
Thank you for your interest in serving as a Pod Leader for the GUMC Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program.  Pod Leaders are essential to the collaborative learning sessions and pod meetings. As a benefit of the program, pod leaders will receive professional development coaching from a Certified Executive Life Coach. This position also fulfills a substantial university service experience necessary for promotion.  

A Pod Leader facilitates a small group throughout the eight month mentoring program to deepen the discussions and enrich the learning experience of the mentoring cohort.  The Pod Leaders, with the support of the program managers, will be responsible for facilitating small group breakouts during scheduled large group meetings, assist each of the small group members with the professional learning activities, and provide guidance on possible mentors for each of the small group members.  The Pod Leader will serve as a coach in that the purpose is to collaborate with the small group members as a group and individually to provide guidance and thought provoking discussion to inspire the mentee to reach his/her/their professional potential.

Pod Leaders will be assigned a maximum of five mentees in their pod. These will be faculty members with similar goals, career paths, and departments, matched as best as possible.

Up to five Pod Leaders will be chosen for each cohort, and the Pod Leader must have experience mentoring faculty (informal or formal). Pod Leaders must have had a full time faculty appointment for at least 3 years and have more than 2 years experience at GUMC.  

The time commitment for the first four months (September - December) of the program is:
  • One 1 hour virtual pod leader orientation: Wednesday, August 27 at 12 PM ET (Tentative)
  • One 90 minute group coaching session: Wednesday, September 3, 4:30 - 6 PM ET
  • Five 90 minute cohort sessions, all 4:30 - 6 PM ET: September 10, October 1, October 22, November 19, December 10
The last four months (January - April) of the program requires 45 minutes monthly for the pod check ins.  

In addition, as a benefit for pod leaders, all pod leaders will have three or four individual 60 minute coaching sessions with a Certified Executive Life Coach scheduled according to the availability of the pod leader and Certified Life Coach between September - April.

Applications are due by Friday, April 11, 11:59 PM ET.  Applicants will be notified by May 9.  

For any questions, please contact gumcmentoring@georgetown.edu.
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First and Last Name *
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Net ID (If you do not know your net ID, please contact gumcmentoring@georgetown.edu) *
Faculty Track/Line *
Faculty Rank *
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All Pod Leaders must attend the pod leader orientation.  This session is scheduled for Wednesday, August 27, 12 - 1 PM ET via Zoom. Please confirm if you can attend this session. *
All Pod Leaders must attend the group coaching session.  This session is scheduled for Wednesday, September 3,  4:30 - 6 PM ET via Zoom. Please confirm if you can attend this session. *
If the pod leader group coaching session (9/3 at 4:30 PM ET) could be in person on the GUMC Campus, would you be able to attend?  

Please note, we are just considering doing this in person if schedules allow, but if not everyone can do it, we will host it over Zoom.  This will not impact your application in any way. 
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All Pod Leaders are expected to attend all cohort sessions and the virtual orientation for Pod Leaders.  Below are the dates of all the cohort sessions.  All meetings are virtual from 4:30 - 6 PM ET.  Please confirm if you are able to attend these meetings. *
September 10; October 1; October 22; November 19; December 10, 2025
Please describe your past experiences as a mentor or coach to other faculty. *
In order to better facilitate the Pod Leader virtual orientation, please rate how knowledgeable you are about each of the following: *
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Possible mentors for faculty members with similar career paths, goals, and experiences as you
Should you be selected, please provide any questions, comments, concerns you may have before accepting a position as Pod Leader for this program.
Please email your most up-to-date CV or biosketch to gumcmentoring@georgetown.edu.  Your application will not be complete without this submission. *
Is there anything else that we should know prior to considering you for this role?
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