Extension Assistant, Department of Plant Sciences: UTIA

Responsibilities

• Develops field days, workshops, and hands-on demonstrations especially those featuring irrigation, and pest management in order to achieve extension goals.
• Developing and updating appropriate media especially on especially those featuring irrigation and pest management, i.e., publications, videos, and other educational media, including asynchronous online modules.
• Purchase supplies associated with extension programs.
• Evaluation of extension programming.
• Establish, coordinate, and maintain applied research plots and activities especially related to irrigation and pest management of nursery crops in greenhouse, nurseries, orchards, and laboratory settings.
• Planning and execution of field trial protocols to achieve applied research goals.
• Perform various activities including transplanting, fertilizing, pruning etc. in support of applied research and demonstrations.
• Independently collect, organize, and enter data from applied research trials in an accurate and timely manner.
• Apply treatments accurately.
• Document research results with photographs.
• Purchase supplies associated with applied research.
• Cookordination with collaborating farms and RECs.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Plant Sciences, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Biosystems Engineering, Biology, or related degree program.
• Experience: Two years' applied research or extension assistant experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Proficient written and oral English communication skills, self-motivated and highly organized, able to operate autonomously, willing to work with a diverse group of faculty, staff, students, and producers to conduct greenhouse, field, and laboratory research under a range of environmental conditions. Ability to develop graphics with iDraw or comparable software, develop digital presentations, input and manage data using Microsoft Excel. Ability to prepare research reports and extension publications and online learning modules.