Program Educator Assistant II - Paula J. Carter Center - Lincoln University of Missouri

Purpose:

The successful candidate will assist the Paula J. Carter Center on Minority Health and Aging (PJCCMHA) Administrator with program implementation, including planning and designing educational experiences, workshops, classes, trainings, Senior Summer School, Missouri Institute on Minority Health and Aging (MIMA) and other events. The Program Educator Assistant II will also conduct administrative tasks and work closely with administrative assistants and PJCCMHA Program staff.

Although work will primarily be in Jefferson City and surrounding areas in Central Missouri, it may also require working and program implementation in other areas around the state of Missouri.

Essential Job Functions:

• Providing support to the PJCCMHA administrator and staff.
• Assisting with program implementation, including teaching, planning, designing, and evaluating.
• Developing and compiling reports as assigned by supervisors and maintaining and submitting reports on teaching activities, accomplishments and program impacts to stakeholders.
• Conducting administrative tasks, such as ordering supplies, preparing and proofreading correspondence, reports, and other documents; taking minutes of meetings; maintaining databases and other records; gathering information and other data to prepare requisitions; familiarization with Colleague and/or other accounting systems.
• Helping to identify, solicit, and secure extramural funding through grants, private and public donations, to include in-kind contributions, and assisting the administrator to manage extramural funds when received.
• Assisting the administrator to monitor budgets.
• Assisting in the development of teaching materials, including guide sheets and fact sheets, written at or below an eighth grade reading level on subjects related to areas of Cooperative Extension and healthy aging.
• Keeping the PJCCMHA website updated and current.
• Assisting in coordinating project teams, organizing meetings and other tasks as assigned by supervisors and Extension administrators.
• May supervise students and volunteers. May require working on weekends and evenings; could require traveling around and outside of the State of Missouri. Typical work hours are 8AM-5PM during regular class session; 7:30AM - 6PM during the summer.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Personal Characteristics:

Required:

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Computer proficiency to include Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Valid driver's license and access to a motor vehicle in working condition.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to function as part of a larger team.

Preferred:

• Ability to use social media to assist senior staff with teaching and program promotion.
• Ability to read, speak, and understand Spanish.

Education and Experience:

Required: Bachelor's degree from an accredited university with a major in human development, family development, gerontology, sociology, management or health and wellness or a closely related field.

Preferred: Experience conducting educational sessions via virtual technologies and experience teaching and developing audience contacts using social media; experience working with USDA Cooperative Extension programs; some experience addressing the needs of and working with seniors and working with low-income, ethnically diverse, underserved audiences from marginalized communities in informal group settings.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of Lincoln University. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder's responsibility.

This is a 12-month fixed term position, effective from the date of employment. Renewal on an annual basis is contingent upon job performance and funding availability