ISFOP Program Educator Assistant II

Position Summary:

The successful candidate will assist the ISFOP Director with research-based program implementation for small-scale, socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers across the state. This work will include planning and designing workshops, tours, field days, and other events and other events. Conduct administrative tasks and working closely with administrative assistants and ISFOP staff.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities:

• Providing support to the State Extension Specialist (supervisor)
• Assist the ISFOP director to develop a plan of work and activity plan of work for the ISFOP staff.
• Assisting with program implementation, including teaching, planning, designing, and evaluating
• Developing and compiling reports as assigned by supervisors and maintaining and submitting assigned reports on teaching activities and constituent goal attainment.
• Conducting administrative tasks, such as gathering information and other 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.
• 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 Small farms.
• Assisting in coordinating project teams, organizing meetings and other tasks as assigned by supervisors and Extension administrators.
• Keeping the ISFOP webpage updated and current.
• 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.

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; one (1) year of 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
• Job may require working on weekends, evenings, and traveling around the state of Missouri.

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.