Non-Affiliated Student Technician

Job Title
:
Non-Affiliated Student Technician

Agency
:
Texas A&M Agrilife Research

Department
:
Dallas

Proposed Minimum Salary
: $15.00 hourly

Job Location
:
Dallas, Texas

Job Type
:
Student Worker

The Texas A&M Agri Life Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture seeks a Non-Affiliated Student Technician to work in close collaboration and coordination with the Healthy Living research team. The Non-Affiliated Student Technician will provide project managers and staff with administrative and technical support in implementing the Strong Teens for Healthy Schools program. The Strong Teens program is a physical activity and nutrition program that aims to improve the cardiovascular health of middle school students while empowering them to build leadership skills and build a sustainable healthy change in their school’s health environment.

Support includes preparing materials for program lessons, teaching the lessons on site, attending weekly meetings, and assisting with program evaluation activities (i.e., health measurements, surveys).

Texas A&M Agri Life is an organization that supports healthy living for all Texans, through the research of targeted agricultural practices that yield nutritious food sources, outreach programs that train community members on growing their own food, and preservation of natural resources via eco-friendly means, all while following practices that lead to a stronger Texas economy. Overseen by the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M Agrilife includes the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service, Texas A&M Agrilife Research, the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Forest Service, and Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.

The Texas A&M Agri Life Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) is the world’s first academic institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and social and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease in a way that considers environmental and economic effects. The IHA comprises three focus areas—healthy living, precision nutrition, and responsive agriculture—and unites experts from various fields such as agriculture, nutrition, behavioral sciences, social sciences, life sciences, engineering, data and computation science, and economics.

Healthy Living programs implement, evaluate, and disseminate scientific solutions, applicable to all Texans, for improved public health. We aim to understand the means of building communities around healthy living and facilitating the delivery of current, accurate evidence-based programs, guidelines, and information that supports healthier living for Texans. Areas of particular interest to Healthy Living include fair health and health disparities; food access, food systems, food and nutrition insecurity, dietary patterns and behaviors;

diet/food intervention and program development and evaluation; physical activity behaviors and intervention development; policy system and environmental change; citizen science and community engaged research; and mHealth technologies for monitoring, assessment, and interventions.

The Healthy Living team works on a broad portfolio of extramurally funded, community-engaged research and active collaborations with community partners, cooperative extension, and many academic and nonprofit organizations throughout Texas and beyond. The IHA’s Healthy Living program welcomes applications from scholars who possess related expertise and are eager to play a role in our supportive, interdisciplinary research group, specifically focused on solutions to address risk factors for obesity and related chronic diseases.

Applicants from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

The IHA’s Healthy Living program is housed at the Texas A&M Agrilife Center at Dallas, which focuses on scientific research, public outreach, and education programs. The Center is a regional hub for all Texas A&M Agrilife activity. It is one of 13 Agri Life Centers across the state - each focusing on issues specific to their region. Initiatives at Dallas…