Penn State Cooperative Extension Work Values

Daily Duties at Penn State Cooperative Extension:

▪ Responsible for all aspects of program development and deployment of community wellness programs, including several diabetes programs, in multi-county and statewide areas as well as manage projects to support these wellness programs and campaigns in the complex Penn State University system ▪ Developed, marketed, conducted, evaluated, and fiscally managed a wide range of community wellness programming at the state and local level using creative delivery methods and teaching techniques and conducted over 1500 public presentations ▪ Collaborated with various businesses, vendors, community organizations, and agencies to offer educational programming ▪ Served as a resource to the public and colleagues and provided individual medical nutrition therapy ▪ Provided leadership at the state level for diabetes and food safety programming through serving as chair of state Diabetes and Food Safety Teams ▪ Developed statewide evaluation tools for various wellness programs, including diabetes programs, to assess effectiveness ▪ Wrote grant proposals to support numerous state and local educational programs ▪ Oversaw budgets associated with county program funds and grants ▪ Authored nutrition (including numerous diabetes topics) and food safety articles for newspapers, magazines, and newsletters, including Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Lancaster Farming columns for past 17 years ▪ Conducted live monthly call-in radio shows with numerous focusing on diabetes ▪ Supervised nutrition paraprofessionals, nutrition program assistants, and nutrition students and interns ▪ Developed expertise in herbal medicine, dietary supplements, diabetes, and evaluation methods and conducted professional presentations on these topics at the local, state, and national level ▪ Served on numerous university committees, including Search Committee for Food Science Department Head, Outreach Evaluators Committee, and Staff Advisory Committee to Director of Extension

What they like about Penn State Cooperative Extension:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

Dietitian, Nutritionist, Nutrition Education, Nutrition Communications, Diabetes, Diabetes Educator, Food Safety, Wellness, Wellness Edcuation, Trainer, Program Manager, Project Manager, Writer, Communications, Microsoft Office, Evaluation, Educator, Heathy Eating, Weight Loss

Skills

Presentation, Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Technology Solutions, Sales Support, Leadership , Develop, market, conduct, evaluate, and fiscally manage a wide range of educational programming

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