Extension Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Farm Management, West TN - UTIA

• Deliver programs through workshops, meetings, seminars, farm and office visits, and direct counseling with farm families and small rural businesses.
• Teach farm and rural small agricultural-related business planning, decision-making, marketing, and feasibility analysis.
• Develop an effective Extension educational program
• Utilize economic outlook meetings, mass media, and other appropriate teaching methods in the delivery of educational programs.
• Maintain a close working relationship with the Regional Agriculture and Natural Resources Leaders, state staff in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, other state specialists, and agents in the designated area in order to support the total Extension education program
• Secure extramural funds through grants, fee-based programs, and gifts.
• Accurately reports ANR program accomplishments and impacts into the UT Extension reporting system in a timely fashion.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

The UT Center of Farm Management Director and the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department Head will be administratively responsible for this position. The UT Center of Farm Management Director and the MANAGE Coordinator will provide program support and will have direct input on job performance.

• Program Development (including curriculum development and grantsmanship)
• Teaching (in-service training for agents and multi-county programs) Teaching the program as a train the trainer to employees throughout the state.
• 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. 
• Program evaluation - Evaluating number of contacts throughout the state for area program. What impact has it provided or not provided.  How to update the program from the data.
• Coordinate and select tasks forces within UTIA for action.
• Program management- Determining changes and updates to the statewide program
• Public relations-Publications, websites, videos, Facebook pages, and other ways of contacting the public with our programs. Must provide a professional image of Extension.
• All other duties assigned.