Extension Instructor or Extension Educator - Water & Cropping Systems; Clay

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Employment Website Extension Instructor or Open Rank Extension Educator
- Water & Cropping Systems (Clay County) Please see Special Instructions for more details. Position Information

Position Information

Working Title

Working Title Extension Instructor or Open Rank Extension Educator
- Water & Cropping Systems (Clay County)

Department

Department NE Ext Engagement Zone 10-12359

Requisition Number

Requisition Number F_240135

Posting Open Date

Posting Open Date 09/19/2024

Application Review Date: (To ensure consideration, please submit all application materials before review date)

Application Review Date: (To ensure consideration, please submit all application materials before review date) 10/21/2024

Posting Close Date

Open Until Filled Yes

Description of Work

Overview
This position is based in Clay Center, NE with the geographic accountability region of Clay, Nuckolls, and Thayer Counties. Primary responsibilities are developing and delivering water and cropping systems extension programming that a) improves profitability and sustainability, b) reduces environmental risk, c) encourages stewardship, d) enhances resiliency, and e) expands consumer awareness of food, forage, grain, and fiber. The incumbent is an active participant in developing solution-based resources as a member of the statewide Water and Cropping Systems team.

Nebraska Extension professionals are committed to engaging with community partners, organizations, and all audiences, as well as individuals, in ways that reflect an understanding and value for individual differences. Nebraska Extension strives to ensure that innovative programming, translational research, and learning opportunities promote equity and inclusion.

This twelve-month, non-tenure position carries the title of open rank extension educator or extension instructor, depending on the candidate’s level of education. Those possessing a graduate-level degree in the requested area of instruction will be considered for an open rank educator position, a full-time, promo table, non-tenure track appointment. Those in possession of an undergraduate degree in the requested area of instruction will be considered for an instructor position, a full-time, non-promo table, non-tenure track appointment that will be renewed annually for a maximum of five years in the appointment.

If hired as an instructor, the incumbent will be expected to make satisfactory progress toward and complete a master’s degree within the initial five-year appointment period. As part of the Nebraska benefits package, UNL offers tuition remission for full-time employees, up to 15 credit hours per year. Once the master’s degree is earned within that period, the position will advance to an assistant extension educator appointment.

PROGRAMMATIC RESPONSIBILITIES (approximately 80%):

• Collaborates closely with colleagues, state and federal agencies, industry representatives, and crop producers to address agronomic and management issues in diverse cropping systems.
• Develops, delivers, and measures impacts of programs and engagements regarding rainfed and irrigated crop production systems in Nebraska.
• Participates in collection and interpretation of data to develop data driven, digital, and precision agricultural management strategies for clientele.
• Uses innovative strategies and cutting-edge teaching and learning methods to design, develop, deliver, and evaluate programs for a robust extension education program focused on water and cropping production systems within the assigned geographic region, and as a member of the statewide Water and Cropping Systems Team.
• Engages in a collaborative-learning environment with crop producers and encourages adoption of research-based information in…