H Youth Development Advisor; AP

Position Overview

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.

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.

• 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.
• Effectiveness of using youth as peer educators to initiate community change through youth development programs and learning experiences.

There are excellent opportunities for the new advisor to establish extension and research partnerships with a variety of stakeholders and collaborators, including local youth development partners, community service organizations, county government, and youth‑serving agencies in formal and non‑formal education settings. The advisor joins a team of highly motivated UCCE colleagues who are passionate about their work and are dedicated to making a difference within the communities and throughout California.

This position will be headquartered in the UCCE Tulare office, CA and have activity in Fresno and Kings Counties. The position will also provide support to the statewide network of 4‑H Youth Development community educators in Youth Leadership, Community Engagement and Development.

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