Extension Support Specialist I- Agricultural Education/FFA Specialist- Horticulture Section- School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS)

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Department Background

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University’s second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education, and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: We believe that achieving next-generation scientific breakthroughs requires an understanding of the world’s complex, interlocking systems. We believe that access to nutritious food and a healthy environment is a fundamental human right. We believe that ensuring a prosperous global future depends on the ability to support local people and communities everywhere. By working in and across multiple scientific areas, CALS can address challenges and opportunities of the greatest relevance, here in New York, across the nation, and around the world.

The CALS School of Integrative of Plant Science (SIPS) encompasses five fields: Horticulture, Plant Biology, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, and Soil and Crop Sciences. Combined there are 100+ faculty, ~200 undergraduate majors, 200+ graduate students in six fields, and 600+ other employees located in Ithaca, Geneva, and other satellite locations across New York State. The School offers the multidisciplinary undergraduate major in the Plant Sciences and is also home to the Agricultural Sciences major. School faculty also contribute to the Biology, Global Development, and Viticulture & Enology majors.

About FFA: New York FFA is part of Cornell’s Agricultural Outreach and Education program. Housed in the Horticulture Section in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Agricultural Education and Outreach has a decades long track record of supporting schools, communities, teachers, students and the agriculture industry in New York State through programs, events, resources, professional development and strategic leadership to advance school-based agricultural education. New York FFA, formerly the Future Farmers of America, provides student development in the areas of premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Currently, FFA chapters serve 13,000 student members in nearly 200 student programs throughout New York. The State FFA program plans and executes events, develops resources and tools, administers grant and recognition programs and serves in a support and advisory capacity for local FFA leaders and chapters. New York FFA works actively to grow and sustain programs in communities of all backgrounds in order to create foundations for lifetimes of success with careers and/or informed and empowering choices related to Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources as consumers and citizens.
 

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Position Summary

The Agricultural Education and FFA Specialist is responsible for supporting the establishment and onboarding of sustainable new agricultural education programs and FFA chapters with a focus on programs emerging with nontraditional