Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development - Bracken County

University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service; Brooksville (KY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development in Bracken County will provide leadership and management to the overall 4-H youth development programs, coordinating school and community-based initiatives to develop youth.

Responsibilities include recruiting and training volunteers and leaders, and utilizing councils, advisory groups, and committees for programming around leadership development, community involvement, local government, and community economic development.

Responsibilities

• implementing a well-rounded program that develops youth through school and community-based programs
• recruiting and training volunteers and leaders to work with youth
• utilizing and/or developing councils, advisory groups, and committees in programming around leadership development, community involvement, local government, community services and other forms of community economic development

Job description

The Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development will work to provide leadership and management to the overall 4-H youth development programs for Bracken County. Agent responsibilities include: 1) implementing a well-rounded program that develops youth through school and community-based programs; 2) recruiting and training volunteers and leaders to work with youth; 3) utilizing and/or developing councils, advisory groups, and committees in programing around issues involving leadership development, community involvement, local government, community services and other forms of community economic development.

All agents in a county will support the dissemination of useful and practical information on subjects relating to Agriculture, Family Consumer Sciences, 4-H and Community and Rural Development as outlined in the KRS statutes 164.605 to 164.675.

State law requires a national and state criminal background check and a letter from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services stating the employee is clear to hire based on no findings of substantiated child abuse or neglect found through a background check of child abuse and neglect records as a condition of employment or involvement in this program.