Sr Program Administrator - Impact Assessment and Management

The mission of Rutgers Cooperative Extension ( RCE) is to improve the lives of New Jersey residents and their communities by delivering science-based educational outreach programs in each of the state's 21 counties. Program foci are continuously defined and refined through local needs assessments, as well as through the alignment of annual work plans with federal (e.g., USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture) and State priorities. Programs are wide-ranging, including agricultural retention and economic development, environmental and natural resource protection, food, health and nutrition, personal wellness, home horticulture, marine and coastal resource management, positive youth development, renewable energy, and climate resilience and adaptation.

RCE maintains robust federal, state, and county government funding partnerships, as well as substantial external program resourcing (e.g., competitive grants, contracts, and philanthropic gifts) that rely on and leverage the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station's statewide infrastructure of county cooperative extension offices, research farms and field stations, business incubator facilities, and on-campus research centers and institutes. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension workforce comprises more than 90 faculty (county agents, extension specialists, and faculty with secondary extension appointments) and 225+ programmatic, paraprofessional, and administrative staff. Cooperative Extension programs are supported by thousands of adult and youth volunteers across the state.

Programs are delivered through modalities best aligned with the needs and preferences of the individuals and communities served by Cooperative Extension. Increasingly, program delivery approaches require the blending of in-person, full-remote, and hybrid options. This drives the need for pedagogical refinement, or even restructuring, of program structure, content, and delivery across the cooperative extension system, as well as the establishment of new physical infrastructure (i.e., distance learning systems and technologies) at many classroom/meeting spaces and field locations on and off-campus, as well as personnel training to increase proficiency with distance learning technologies. While New Jersey is generally characterized as a geographically small and heavily urbanized/suburbanized state, marked disparities exist in terms of the capacity and reliability of distance learning technologies available to cooperative extension personnel and the individuals/communities they serve. Among the more pronounced deficiencies are evident in the less populated and rural parts of the state, particularly in areas of southern and northwestern New Jersey where agricultural and resource industries are more concentrated.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive organization, that empowers all staff to contribute towards a vision for success. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our work, regardless of title or position within the organization.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Sr Program Administrator - Impact Assessment and Management for the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension. This position will work with senior Rutgers Cooperative Extension leadership to strengthen program evaluation systems, processes, and aptitudes needed to increase program clarity, impact, accessibility, and visibility.

Among the key duties of the position are the following:

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