Extension Specialist, Agriculture & Natural Resources Specialist
University of Tennessee
- Knoxville, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Program Development (including curriculum development and grantsmanship) Planning and conducting workshops and conferences, grants for the SDBII program, conducting farm visits, collecting survey data, and developing reports. This position covers 1,103 counties.
- Teaching (in-service training for agents, training for dairy businesses, and multi-state programs) Teaching at workshops, organizing webinars and webinar speakers, tracking attendance, and uploading meeting recordings for asynchronous viewing. Perform training for agents and producers including the appropriate training methods including face-to-face and online. These teaching outcomes will reach extension personnel and dairy businesses across 1,103 counties.
- Conducting needs assessment and environmental scanning. Keeping current on all current trends in their program area and ability to create curriculum to employees who will be teaching it to clientele. Conducting assessments to find the needed programs in portions of the state. Serve as a contact for Extension specialists, agents, and county-level partners on programmatic efforts, grant programs, and updated resources. This position will be involved with 5 grant programs offered annually to dairy businesses across 1,103 counties.
- Program evaluation - Track participation, evaluate grant effectiveness, and impacts on dairy businesses required to report Outcome Indicators for participants in the grant project. Use Excel to organize and analyze data collected and prepare program evaluations in Qualtrics, google forms, or similar programs. This includes teaching and training efforts as well as grant success for the 5 grant programs offered annually to dairy businesses across 1,103 counties. Responsible for preparing reports for University of Tennessee and USDA.
- Program management- Orders and manages publications for usage, prepares educational materials for workshops, newsletters, brochures, quarterly reports, maintains and distributes to newsletter/email lists, maintains peer reviews and printing authorization for publications. This includes success stories from grant recipients across the Southeast region for USDA-AMS requests.
- Public relations-Publications, recruitment materials, websites (SDBII and UTDairy), videos, Facebook pages, and other ways of contacting the public with our programs. Coordinates with North Carolina and Kentucky counterparts to collect program evaluation and outcomes for their producers, when applicable.