H Youth Development Advisor; AP

Application Window

Open date:
November 14, 2025

Next review date:
Saturday, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) – Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date:
Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) – Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) invites applications for a UC Cooperative Extension 4‑H Youth Development Advisor for Leadership and Community Engagement serving Tulare, Fresno, and Kings counties. The Advisor will develop and deliver a program that will provide all youth meaningful personal development opportunities. The Advisor is expected to develop an extension and applied research program framed in positive youth development, emphasizing leadership and community engagement education, and curricula to promote program growth and expanded opportunities for youth participation.

UCCE Advisors are responsible for applied research and extension of knowledge. Research activities are applied, needs-based, mission-oriented, and focused on addressing our communities’ challenges. Extension activities are the educational practices Advisors use to share research results directly with clientele and communities. Increased knowledge and understanding of science‑based research helps to support and promote the adoption of practices and technologies that solve problems.

Extension methods may include individual consultations, presentations, organization of educational workshops and short courses, field demonstrations, and farm and site visits. Information may also be disseminated via radio outreach, webinars, fact sheets, policy briefs, news blogs, and social media. Publications are expected in various formats, such as newsletters, articles for the popular press, curriculums, conference proceedings, and peer‑reviewed publications. Successful research and extension programs result in new information that improves knowledge or understanding and adoption of new skills, practices, changed attitudes, policies, and improved environmental, health, agricultural, economic, and/or social conditions.

UCCE Advisors are evaluated through an academic advancement system based on four criteria: extending knowledge, applied research and creative activity, professional competence and activity, and University and public service.

Location:

Headquarters – UCCE Tulare County, 4437‑B S. Laspina St., Tulare, CA 93274

The Advisor will implement an innovative extension education and applied research program to address issues related to Youth Leadership and Community Engagement in Tulare, Fresno and Kings counties. Using a positive youth development framework for youth leadership and community engagement, this position will create opportunities for youth to participate in meaningful civic engagement and community‑based leadership experiences to prepare them to be effective public leaders.

The advisor will provide academic oversight of the 4‑H community club program and educational leadership to county‑based 4‑H staff, educators, volunteers, and community members. This position offers the opportunity to address a myriad of issues by creating youth voice and authentic opportunities to solve issues of interest and importance to youth, such as access to built and natural environments and creating welcoming community spaces for youth and environmental justice.

This position is positively situated to integrate ANR’s research and extension education efforts across communities to improve youth development across the region. It is an exciting opportunity to develop and deliver relevant program content to have meaningful impacts in local communities and throughout California related to:

• Program factors or community strategies that contribute to positive youth leadership development.
• Outcomes and impacts of a multifaceted youth development program on positive youth development.
• Efficacy and relevance of the 4‑H Thriving Model of Positive Youth Development in California.
• Effective…