Assistant/Associate Extension Agent (Nutrition & Community Health)

Work Location: The area to be served includes West Baton Rouge (WBR) and Iberville parishes. While this position will have responsibilities in the Southwest region, the proposed domicile for this position is either WBR or Iberville Parish Extension Office. The NCH agent will also have Point of Contact responsibilities in the non-domicile parish (either WBR or Iberville) and Upper St. Martin parishes.

Position Description: This is a non-tenure track, agent level position (100% Extension NCH). The Nutrition & Community Health (NCH) Extension Agent will work under the supervision and direction of the Parish Chair, NCH Regional Coordinator, Regional Director, and NCH state office faculty. This position includes a one hundred percent (100%) nutrition/flavors of health (FOH) appointment.

Major Responsibilities:

· The Agent will develop and maintain a plan of work for general nutrition education programming based on current expectations and for serving as a primary point of contact for nutrition programming in West Baton Rouge, Iberville, and upper St. Martin parishes.

· Coordinate and implement community nutrition programs in the parishes served which will include delivering programs on chronic disease prevention/management through healthy lifestyle changes.

· Ability to lead, teach, and execute food demonstrations, cooking classes, hands on nutrition activities for a variety of audiences including youth, adult, seniors, and community groups.

· Recruit and maintain clientele for community nutrition programs and provide research-based information to clientele in the parishes served.

· Plan, deliver, and evaluate programs on food safety and preservation.

· Prepare nutrition education materials, communications, and activities that use a variety of delivery methods such as workshops, social media, web and print based media outlets.

· Establish and support community based advisory leadership committees’/stakeholder groups to identify the most critical Nutrition & Community Health needs in the parishes served.

· Collaborate with other LSU AgCenter staff, health professionals, and residents’ ways to overcome barriers to good nutrition and health.

· Provide leadership in planning, implementing, evaluation and reporting food, nutrition, and/or physical activity policy, system, and environmental interventions and implementing health and nutrition education policies for youth and adults in parishes serviced.

· Review, compile, and report data to document programmatic efforts and demonstrate program outcomes.

· Work under the administrative supervision and direction of the parish chair, NCH Regional Coordinator, NCH State office staff, and regional director.

· To attend and conduct training to meet the needs of the clientele, this position requires some overnight travel and work in the evenings, early morning and weekends.

Background Check - An offer of employment is contingent on a satisfactory pre-employment background check.