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2022 UCCE advisor positions released for recruitment

I am thrilled to announce another monumental milestone to grow UC ANR's Cooperative Extension footprint – 48 more CE Advisor positions will be recruited over the next 12 months! Thanks to the increased 2021-22 state funding, the 2021 Call for CE Positions has concluded. Additional CE Specialist positions will be announced in early April 2022.

We want to recognize and commend the active engagement and collaboration across the UC ANR network to develop the position proposals, and in particular the groups that worked together to submit joint proposals. We also want to thank the Program Teams for their additional review and input on the CE Specialist proposals. The stakeholder engagement described in the proposals and Program Team prioritization were critical to informing the release of positions. More about this process is available on the 2021 Call for Positions web page.

The following CE Advisor positions will be staged for recruitment to avoid overwhelming our Human Resources colleagues. Coverage areas are indicated in parentheses for each position. In some cases, coverage areas were modified from the proposed locations. In other cases, modifications are needed to the position description. Vice Provost Bell is aware of the changes needed and these modifications will be addressed at time of recruitment. Positions listed with a number correspond to the proposed position. Positions listed without a number will require development of a position proposal, working with Vice Provost Bell, the local County Directors, and appropriate Statewide/Institute Directors. The positions below are organized in numerical order. Staged releases will be determined by Academic HR and Vice Provost Bell.

• 01 4-H Community Engagement & Development Youth Area Advisor (Tulare, Fresno, Kings)
• 03 4-H Youth Development Area Advisor (San Diego, Orange)
• 05 Agronomy and Weed Management Area Advisor (Merced)
• 06 Agronomy and Weed Science Area Advisor (Tehama, Glenn, Shasta)
• 07 BIPOC Community Development Advisor (with modification; Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Francisco)
• 10 Climate Resilient Indigenous Farming and Food Sovereignty Area Advisor (San Diego, Riverside

• 14 Community Health and Nutrition Advisor (San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced)
• 15 Community Health and Nutrition Advisor (Shasta, Trinity, Tehama)
• 17 Community Health and Nutrition Older Adult Area Advisor (Marin, Napa, Sonoma)
• 19 Community Health Nutrition and Food Security Area Advisor (Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba)
• 20 Youth, Families and Communities Area Advisor (Kern, Inyo, Mono)

• 21 Community Nutrition Health and Food Systems Area Advisor (with modifications; Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen)
• 23 Cultural Burning and Indigenous Land Stewardship Advisor (Mendocino, Lake)
• 24 Dairy Area Advisor (Tulare, Kern)
• 25 Entomology Area Advisor (Ventura, Los Angeles)
• 26 Environmental Horticulture and Forestry Area Advisor (Placer, Nevada)
• 27 Environmental Horticulture and Water Resource Management Area Advisor (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco)
• 28 Environmental Horticulture Area Advisor (Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Kings)
• 29 Food Safety and Organic Production Area Advisor (Imperial, Riverside; with no Ph.D. requirement)
• 30 Forestry Area Advisor (Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Santa Clara)

• 31 Fruit and Almond Area Advisor (Fresno, Tulare)
• 32 Horticulture and Specialty Crops Advisor (Humboldt, Del Norte)
• 52 Vegetable Crops Area Advisor (with modifications; Capitol Corridor)
• 54 Water and Soil Resources Area Advisor (Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Mendocino)
• 55 Water Management Area Advisor (Tulare, Fresno, Kings, Madera)
• 57 Water Quality-Quantity-Climate Change Area Advisor (Mendocino, Lake)
• 58 Weed Ecology and Management Area Advisor (Fresno, Tulare, Kings)
• 90 Rice Farming Systems Area Advisor (Colusa, Yolo)
• 4-H Animal Science Youth Advisor (San Benito, Monterey, Santa Cruz)
• Forestry Area Advisor (Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou)
• 33 Indigenous Disaster Resilience Planning and Policy Area Advisor (Central Sierra)
• 34 Integrated Pest Management Area Advisor (Central Sierra)
• 35 Intermountain Irrigated Grass Systems Area Advisor (with modifications; Modoc, Shasta, Lassen)
• 36 IPM Entomology Area Advisor (housed at Kearney REC)
• 37 IPM Entomology Farm Area Advisor (Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito)
• 38 Irrigation and Soils Area Advisor (Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Merced)
• 39 Livestock and Natural Resources Area Advisor (Central Sierra)

• 41 Orchard Systems and Weed Ecology Area Advisor (Glenn, Tehama, Colusa)
• 42 Organic Materials Management and Agri-Food System Area Advisor (with modification; Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Francisco)
• 43 Organic Materials Management Area Advisor (Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego)
• 44 Pathology Area Advisor (with modification; Imperial, Riverside, San Diego)
• 45 Production Horticulture Area Advisor (with modifications; Ventura, Santa Barbara)
• 46 Sustainable Systems Agriculture Area Advisor (Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus)
• 47 Restoration Ecology and Weed Science Area Advisor (Kern, Tulare, Kings)
• 48 Sustainable Orchard Systems Area Advisor (Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Placer)
• 49 Urban Agriculture Food Systems and Environmental Issues Advisor (San Diego, Orange)
• 50 Urban IPM Area Advisor (Capitol Corridor)
• 51 Urban Watershed Resilience Area Advisor (Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles)

The new Advisor positions list will be added to the 2021-22 Release web page by March 18.

During the last six months of 2021, 41 other UCCE positions were released and have been filled or are under recruitment. The full list is posted and kept updated on the 2021 Release of UCCE Positions web page. There is also a table of the overall staged process.

Thank you to all who have, or will, participate in the recruitment process! I look forward to meeting our new and recent hires, in person, as we emerge from this pandemic.

Best regards,

Glenda Humiston
Vice President

Phase 2 of 2018 call for Cooperative Extension positions is underway

Dear Colleagues,

The UCCE county directors and REC directors have submitted 20 CE advisor position proposals and the executive associate deans, working with campus departments, have submitted 20 CE specialist position proposals. Both groups engaged program teams, statewide programs/institutes, and external stakeholders in the development of these proposals. All 40 phase 1 proposals are posted on the 2018 Call for Position web page: http://ucanr.edu/2018callforpositions.

Phase 2 is underway:

• Program teams are reviewing the 40 phase 1 proposals to determine if there are any positions they feel are of higher priority.
• If so, each program team can propose one additional CE advisor position and one additional CE specialist position by August 1-- remembering that the more proposals there are at the end, the lower the probability of being approved for recruitment.
• The proposals that didn't make the phase 1 final 40 can be picked up by Program Teams. Proposed positions available for pick up can be found on the proposal ideas web page.

We thank the ANR network for actively engaging in this participatory process to strengthen and rebuild CE positions statewide.

Sincerely,

Wendy Powers
Associate Vice President

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2018 Call for Cooperative Extension positions update

Colleagues,

The 2018 Call for Cooperative Extension (CE) positions was released on Feb. 7 with the aim to identify positions that address programmatic gaps and emerging needs. The call, including the new process flowchart and timeline, criteria, proposal template and interactive academic footprint maps are posted at http://ucanr.edu/2018callforpositions.

Here's a quick update:

• CE Advisor position proposals – The county directors and REC directors have narrowed their list of proposed CE advisor positions to 27. They have discussed these with program team leaders and statewide program/institute directors. Through ongoing two-way communication, we encourage them to work with program teams, statewide programs/institutes and external stakeholders to develop those proposals. At their May 10 meeting, county directors and REC directors will further narrow to the 20 proposed positions for submittal May 15. The list of 27, and those that aren't moving forward but can be picked up by other groups such as program teams and statewide programs/institutes, are posted along with more detail on their next steps.

• CE Specialist position proposals – Conversations for the proposed CE specialist positions have also begun. Through two-way communication, department chairs, CE specialists, Agricultural Experiment Station faculty will engage with program teams, statewide programs/institutes and external stakeholders to develop positions. The list of department chairs to contact is posted, as will be proposal ideas when available (no later than April 20). The final list of 20 proposed positions will be submitted by May 15.

The information described above can be found on the proposal ideas web page at http://ucanr.edu/2018positionproposalideas.

We thank the ANR network for actively engaging in this participatory process to strength and rebuild CE positions statewide.

Sincerely,

Wendy Powers

Associate Vice President

 

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This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

 

VP issues 2016 call for CE positions

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 2016 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/2016callforpositions.

The online position-proposal submittal process will be open from January 12 to May 5 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 the beginning of 2012, ANR has hired 86 advisors and specialists, and has 45 approved positions under recruitment or to be recruited in 2016. This list is posted on the 2016 call website. New 2016 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,

Glenda Humiston
Vice President

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This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

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