Cr Executive Director

COTTON RESEARCH AND PROTECTION COUNCIL

The Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council (ACRPC) is an organization formally established by statute in 1984 to serve as a vehicle through which Arizona cotton growers could provide adequate funding for research and applied technology to address industry needs relating to pest control and crop production. ACRPC provides, maintains, and monitors innovative technology and programs for the Arizona cotton industry.

Through this agency, the Arizona cotton industry will be provided with sustainable programs and technologies to eradicate, control, and manage cotton pests.

Address: 3721 E WIER AVENUE, PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85040

Salary: $120,000 - $150,000

Grade: 07

Closing Date:
Open until business needs are met (first review of resumes June 1, 2026)

The Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council (ACRPC) invites applicants to apply for the Executive Director position. The Director is responsible for administering the activities of the Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council and shall be accountable to the Council for such activities.

This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures.

The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

• Establishing and conducting all program activities and Council operations as authorized by the Council. Develop new programs for recommendation to the Council that fit industry needs when circumstances require.
• Oversee the preparation and implementation of financially sound budgets to most effectively fund programs and other activities authorized by the Council.
• Under Council direction, plan, organize and coordinate ACRPC statutorily authorized quarterly public meetings, or as needed.
• Coordinate the collection of bale assessment fees to fund ACRPC activities.
• Develop and direct, with Council approval, the establishment and implementation of cooperative agreements, intergovernmental agreements, memoranda of understanding and other legal mechanisms for cooperative contracting programs of benefit ting Arizona Cotton Growers and associated parties.
• In accordance with statutory authority, with staff and scientific support, develop, direct and coordinate the implementation of a program for production and marketing of aflatoxin mitigating products to a variety of grower cooperators and distributors.
• Through a well-defined organizational structure, implements and directs the activities of the Council’s field staff including, but not limited to pest control, eradication and monitoring programs, plowdown field inspection, cotton seed breeding, and other program activities related to cotton or aflatoxin.
• Oversee, with staff assistance, operations related to legal or statutory requirements pertaining to the Council as a state agency including but not limited to audits, rule review, sunset review, grower referenda, procurement and employment statutory requirements, lien collections, etc.
• Oversee Council funds in a fiscally responsible way to ensure adequate cost support for authorized program activities including adequate positive carryover balance from one fiscal year to the next.
• It is contemplated that the Director shall be authorized to spend up to $25,000 in emergency funding over and above the current fiscal budget without prior authorization by the Council, subject to ratification at the next Council meeting.
• It is further contemplated that the Director shall be authorized to spend up to $10,000 above each budgeted category for non-emergency needs, without prior authorization by the Council, subject to ratification at the next Council meeting.
• Direct the agency’s disbursement of…