- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Colleagues,
Continuing our commitment to deploying Cooperative Extension (CE) specialists and advisors to address critical issues, ANR is soliciting proposals for these CE positions. The new 2014 call aims to identify positions for strengthening and rebuilding the ANR network to address programmatic gaps and emerging needs. The call, including the updated position proposal template as well as the process flowchart timeline and criteria documents, is posted at http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/Divisionwide_Planning/2014_Call_for_Positions/.
The online position proposal submittal process will be open from January 14 – May 19 to allow as much time as possible for internal consultation and discussions with ANR stakeholders in all program areas. We expect and strongly encourage engaging external stakeholders, including commodity groups, cooperating programs, agency partners, community groups, and others, to explicitly discuss priority needs for positions.
Filling critical academic positions is a top priority for ANR. Since 2012, ANR has hired 38 advisors and specialists, and has 43 approved positions under recruitment or to be recruited in 2014. This list is posted on the 2014 call web page. New 2014 position proposals should identify additional crucial positions.
The resources released through retirements and separations continue to enable us to hire new advisors and specialists. As with the current recruitments, we will remain nimble with future hiring in phases over time to enable us to accomplish the search and hiring process in an orderly fashion, evaluate resources on a real-time basis, deal with unexpected changes in staffing, and address unforeseen critical gaps as they emerge.
Sincerely,
Barbara Allen-Diaz
Vice President
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