Regional Crops Educator

Regional Crops Extension Educator -- covering Green Lake, Adams, Waushara, Portage counties

Job Category:
Academic Staff

Employment Type: 
Ongoing

Job Profile:
Outreach Specialist

Job Duties: 
Extension has been working with farmers for more than 100 years, and we’re diversifying our staffing
portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our clientele. The Regional Crops Educator position is designed
to work with crop producers and agribusiness professionals across a multi-county service area to solve 
production challenges and incorporate new research findings into outreach and educational materials
that improve the efficiency and profitability of crop production.
The Regional Crops Educator will work with producers in their service area to identify needs and deliver 
research-based solutions to help them meet their goals. This position will cover Adams, Green Lake,
Portage, Waushara counties. Geography may shift in the future. The successful candidate will have
expertise in vegetable cropping systems at a range of production scales, and will support other cropping
systems that may include fruit, row crops, and forage.

The Regional Crops Educator will:
• Collaborate with Extension colleagues to identify needs and develop and maintain robust, high-quality outreach education programs to find solutions to the most critical crop management
issues facing Wisconsin producers.
• Develop and maintain a specific expertise related to vegetable crop production and
management.
• Build trust-based relationships with stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have experience with developing and evaluating educational programming and 
a track record of building positive relationships

Essential Job Responsibilities
• Identifies, promotes, and maintains external partnerships to support the outreach program. 25%
• Schedules and secures resources and communicates logistics in support of an outreach program.
10%
• Delivers outreach program content and materials to community members. 20%
• Researches, develops, and facilitates outreach program content and materials. 10%
• Develops and evaluates curriculum and programs and provides recommendations for 
improvement. 20%
• May assist with the monitoring of outreach program budget spending 5%
• Leads the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures through oversight of day-to-day activities for program staff and student and community volunteers 0%

Unique Job Responsibilities
• Communicates plans, activities, and achievements to Area Extension Director, Program 
Managers, County Partners and relevant Stakeholders through the reporting portal and verbal 
updates. 10%

Headquarters Location: 
Extension Waushara County
Courthouse
380 S Townline Rd
Wautoma, WI 54982