Associate Extension Agent, 4-H Youth Development - York County
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the job description.
Content:
- Location: York County Unit Office (maybe part of About the role? Could be in a short paragraph.)
- Position description: 4-H Youth Development Agent is a professional educator who provides leadership to the local 4-H program and manages its day-to-day operation. 4-H is a community of young people learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. The mission of 4-H is to develop youth, and adults working with those youth, to realize their full potential and become effective, contributing citizens. This is achieved through the development and delivery of research-based, non-formal, hands-on educational experiences.
- Responsibilities include: list of duties.
- Extension Agents recognize importance of all communities... (maybe part of responsibilities or about role.)
- Extension Agents are responsible for VCE's civil rights policies and equal opportunity compliance. (maybe part of responsibilities.)
- Required Qualifications: bullet list.
- Knowledge and experience... etc.
- Extension agents demonstrate flexibility... etc.
- The person in this position is expected to travel... (maybe part of responsibilities or about role.)
- Virginia Tech is unable to sponsor applicants for work visas for this vacancy. (maybe part of Additional Information.)
- Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience with extension programs; Master’s degree.
- Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for overtime
- Appointment Type Regular
- Salary Information $50,000 - $65,000
- Hours per week Varies
- Close Date October 12, 2026 (maybe metadata, could be in a short p.)
- Additional Information: driver's license check, criminal conviction check.
- About Virginia Tech: description.
We need to decide sections.
We have:
- About the role: could include location, description of role, mission, etc.
- Responsibilities: list of duties.
- Requirements: maybe Required Qualifications.
- Qualifications: maybe Preferred Qualifications? But we have both Required and Preferred. Could combine under Qualifications? The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have Requirements for required qualifications, Qualifications for preferred? Or Skills for skills. Let's map:
- About the role: location, role description, mission.
- Responsibilities: bullet list of duties.
- Requirements: Required Qualifications (minimum Bachelor's, master's by sixth year, knowledge/experience, communication skills, etc.)
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (Prior experience with extension programs; Master’s degree). Also maybe Overtime Status? Not exactly qualification.
- Skills: maybe the skills listed: excellent communication skills, basic knowledge in educational technologies, program marketing skills, willingness to manage volunteers, flexibility, adaptability, team-oriented, independent work, desire to help clients succeed. Could be part of Requirements though. But we can put them under Skills.
- Benefits: Not explicitly stated. There's no benefits info besides maybe overtime status exempt, appointment type regular. Benefits not given. So we should not create Benefits section.
- Pay: Salary Information $50,000 - $65,000. So we can have Pay section.
- Schedule: Hours per week Varies. So we can have Schedule section.
- Additional info like driver's license check, criminal conviction check could be placed under Requirements? Or maybe under About the role? Could be a short p after sections.
- About Virginia Tech: could be a separate section? Not in list but we could put under About the role? Or maybe we could add a section "About the Organization" but not in allowed headings. The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies we should use those headings when appropriate. Could we add another heading like "About Virginia Tech"? It's not in the list but could be considered part of About the role? Probably better to incorporate Virginia Tech description into About the role or maybe a separate paragraph after sections.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. The Virginia Tech description includes non-discrimination statement etc. That's boilerplate EEO. We should remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The Virginia Tech description includes a non-discrimination statement and accommodation request. That's EEO boilerplate; we should remove it. Also the part about "If you are an individual with a disability..." is accommodation request, also boilerplate. So we should strip that.
Thus we keep only the descriptive part about Virginia Tech: its motto, mission, land-grant, enrollment, research, presence, etc. Remove the non-discrimination and accommodation lines.
Now let's extract substantive content.
About the role:
- Location: York County Unit Office.
- Role: 4-H Youth Development Agent is a professional educator who provides leadership to the local 4-H program and manages its day-to-day operation.
- 4-H description: community of young people learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. Mission: develop youth and adults working with those youth to realize full potential and become effective, contributing citizens. Achieved through development and delivery of research-based, non-formal, hands-on educational experiences.
- Extension Agents recognize importance of all communities and broad reach in development and delivery of Extension programs, actively working to increase program participation of all people.
- Extension Agents are responsible for VCE's civil rights policies and equal opportunity compliance. (This is maybe a responsibility but could be included in responsibilities.)
- The person in this position is expected to travel to provide in-person leadership and to build community partnerships with few exceptions for telework.
We could combine some of these into About the role and Responsibilities.
Responsibilities list:
- Identifies, assesses, and prioritizes needs for the development of objective, research-based educational programs for urban, new, and nontraditional audiences with a focus on 4-H Youth Development; specifies program goals and objectives, and identifies resources needed;
- provides leadership for 4-H Youth Development programs that meet the needs of all youth;
- identifies, recruits, trains, supports, and manages volunteers to implement and carry out the 4-H educational programming;
- determines local program needs by monitoring trends and issues, and conducting local assessments involving the unit Extension Leadership Council (ELC) and other leadership committees;
- networks and builds coalitions with other agencies, organizations and institutions to address the complex youth and family issues and the needs of the 4-H program;
- coordinates day-to-day activities and events associated with the unit 4-H program including 4-H delivery (community 4-H clubs, project 4-H clubs, school enrichment 4-H, after-school 4-H, special interest 4-H, and 4-H camping).
- Extension Agents recognize the importance of all communities and broad reach in the development and delivery of Extension programs, actively working to increase program participation of all people.
- Extension Agents are responsible for VCE's civil rights policies and equal opportunity compliance.
- The person in this position is expected to travel to provide in-person leadership and to build community partnerships with few exceptions for telework.
We could keep the last three as responsibilities as well.
Now Required Qualifications:
- Must have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (BA or BS) in a relevant discipline from an accredited college or university.
- A master’s degree and promotion to Extension Agent are required no later than the sixth year of employment.
- Knowledge and experience in planning, conducting, and evaluating Extension or non-formal education programs;
- understanding and ability to conduct urban community needs assessment to determine program priorities;
- knowledge of child and human development.
- Excellent communication skills;
- basic knowledge in educational technologies and their appropriate use in the development and delivery of educational programs;
- program marketing skills;
- knowledge and willingness to involve and manage volunteers in program development and delivery.
- Extension agents demonstrate flexibility, adaptability; a team-oriented mindset, yet are able to work independently, and; strong desire to help clients succeed.
We could split: Requirements (minimum education, master's by sixth year) and Skills (communication, tech, marketing, volunteer management, flexibility, adaptability, team-oriented, independent work, desire to help clients succeed). Also knowledge/experience in planning etc could be under Requirements or Skills. Let's decide.
We have headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills.
We could put:
- Requirements: Minimum Bachelor's degree; Master's degree and promotion to Extension Agent required no later than sixth year of employment.
- Qualifications: Knowledge and experience in planning, conducting, evaluating Extension or non-formal education programs; understanding and ability to conduct urban community needs assessment; knowledge of child and human development.
- Skills: Excellent communication skills; basic knowledge in educational technologies and their appropriate use; program marketing skills; knowledge and willingness to involve and manage volunteers; flexibility, adaptability; team-oriented mindset; able to work independently; strong desire to help clients succeed.
- Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience with extension programs; Master’s degree. Could be under Qualifications as well, but we already used Qualifications for required knowledge. Maybe we rename: Required Qualifications under Requirements, Preferred Qualifications under Qualifications. But we have both Required and Preferred. Could combine: Requirements (education), Qualifications (knowledge/experience and preferred), Skills (soft skills). Let's see.
Better: Use Requirements for education requirements (Bachelor's, Master's by sixth year). Use Qualifications for knowledge/experience and preferred qualifications (extension programs experience, Master's degree). Use Skills for the skill set (communication, tech, marketing, volunteer management, flexibility, etc.)
Now Pay: Salary Information $50,000 - $65,000.
Schedule: Hours per week Varies.
Additional Information: driver's license check, criminal conviction check. Could be a short p after sections, maybe under About the role? Or a separate section like "Additional Information" but not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into About the role as a note.
We must not include close date? It's metadata; could be included as a short p but not as heading. The instruction says do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Close date is minor metadata; we can include in a short p. Now About Virginia Tech: we keep descriptive part. Let's craft HTML. We'll start with
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