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| Posting Summary | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Senior Program Coordinator (IPM) for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The successful candidate will serve as the State Vegetable IPM Senior Program Coordinator and report to the Chairperson, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension (RCE). This position will be housed at an NJAES Research Farm facility, campus, or county office (TBD). The Vegetable IPM Program is a major thrust area for the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. As such, the successful candidate in this position will have major responsibilities in the daily administration of the Department’s program throughout the state.
Among the key duties of the position are the following: - Provides leadership and support, in collaboration with the IPM Agent, county faculty and Extension specialists, and fellow IPM staff in identifying and conducting integrated pest management (IPM) program needs, coordinating training and field visits and inspections, and timely reports and general program support for commercial vegetable growers.
- Takes major responsibility for hiring, training, and supervising seasonal hires, students, and other hourly employees.
- Collaboratively leads grower education efforts relating to program recommendations and interpreting IPM data.
- Evaluates pest, pesticide use, and program impacts.
- Collaborates with researchers on integrating on-farm research and demonstration projects with industry practices.
- Works with county faculty in developing fertility practices and other ‘non-pest’ program components.
- Expected to actively participate in appropriate departmental, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and University and county (if applicable) administrative functions, provide timely reports, and informational assistance with regional RCE colleagues, as requested.
- Responsible for making pest management recommendations to growers and making diagnostic field visits, often on a last-minute and ‘on-demand’ basis, which often matches the demands of weather, pest development, and other biological conditions, as well as any developing market factors.
- The training of seasonal employees may also be partly determined by unplanned biological, weather, and market factors; thus necessitating weekend and evening work hours, and will also include the preparation for, attendance at, and presentations at evening grower meetings and state and regional conferences.
- The preparation and coordination of IPM information for online and printed newsletter publications is also a required duty of this position.
- Plans day-to-day operations of IPM scouting staff, programming and outreach efforts, budgeting program needs, hiring and training of seasonal employees, ensuring the accuracy of invoicing clientele, and all other related duties that constitute management and business operations of the Vegetable IPM Program within the Department.
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