Program Educator Assistant II

Position Summary

The successful candidate will assist the Specialty Crops Program Coordinator with program Implementation, including planning and designing workshops, tours, field days, and other events such as Dining Wild and Train the Trainers education. The Program Educator Assistant II will also conduct administrative tasks and work closely with administrative assistants and Specialty Crops Program staff.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

• Providing support to the State Extension Specialist (supervisor)

Assisting with program implementation, including teaching, planning, designing, and evaluating

• Developing and compiling reports as assigned by supervisors and maintaining and submitting reports on teaching activities, accomplishments and program impacts to stakeholders
• Conducting administrative tasks, such as ordering supplies; preparing and proofreading correspondence, reports and other documents; maintaining databases and other records; gathering information and other data to prepare requisitions; familiarization with Colleague and/or other accounting systems
• Helping to identify, solicit, and secure extramural funding through grants, private and public donations, to include in-kind contributions, and assisting the supervisor to manage extramural funds when received Assisting the supervisor to monitor budgets
• Assisting in the development of teaching materials, including guide sheets and fact sheets, written at or below an eighth-grade reading level on subjects related to areas of Cooperative Extension, Agriculture and Specialty Crops
• Keeping the Specialty Crops website updated and current
• Assisting in coordinating project teams, organizing meetings and other tasks as assigned by supervisors and Extension administrators May supervise students and volunteers
• May require working on weekends and evenings; could require traveling around and outside of the State of Missouri. Typical work hours are 8 am-5 pm during regular class session; 7:30 am - 6 pm during the summer

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Computer proficiency to include Microsoft Office - Word, Excel and Outlook
• Valid driver's license and access to a motor vehicle in working condition
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work as part of a larger team

Preferred:

• Experience with statistical analyses
• General knowledge about growing vegetables, native plants, and other horticultural plants

Desired:

• Ability to read, speak and understand Spanish

Education and Experience

Required: Bachelor's degree from an accredited university with a major in agricultural education, agriculture, plant science, botany, rural sociology, marketing, or a closely related field, as well as experience working in an area of plant science.

Preferred: Experience conducting educational sessions via virtual technologies and experience teaching and developing audience contacts using social media; experience working with USDA Cooperative Extension programs; some experience addressing the needs of and working with low-income, ethnically diverse, underserved audiences from marginalized communities in informal group settings.

Physical Requirements

• Light sedentary office work; ability to sit at a workstation for extended periods
• Occasional ability to lift, carry, and put away parcels; ability to lift to 25 lbs.

The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms and gardens and farms

• Normal physical mobility, which includes movement from place to place on a farm and in the garden
• Normal physical agility, which includes ability to maneuver body while in place
• Normal physical strength to handle routine office materials, farm and gardening equipment and tools
• Normal endurance

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, functions, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, functions, and activities may be modified, changed or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice, subject to all applicable local, state, and federal laws.

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