Program Manager - Agricultural Education

WIL is seeking a Program Manager for agricultural education to lead training and career-pathway programs in agriculture and food systems with colleges, extension, and employers.

About the Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL)

The Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is an applied workforce research initiative. WIL builds methodology-transparent workforce intelligence, including labor demand signals, occupational and credential pathways, and training-to-employment outcome measures, and works with education, employer, research, and community partners to turn that evidence into grant and sponsored-project collaborations. Learn more: https://wilinstitute.org

Opportunity type: this is a contingent proposal opportunity in WIL's expert collaborator network, not a funded vacancy. It supports a competitive grant application WIL is preparing; no award has been made, and there is no guaranteed work or funding. If an award proceeds and the staffing model calls for it, WIL may offer a project-based contract or consulting engagement. We will ask before naming you or including your resume in any proposal.

What you'll do

• Lead design of agriculture and food-systems education and workforce training activities
• Build experiential learning, internship, and career-pathway components
• Partner with colleges, extension, producers, and agribusiness employers
• Plan learner recruitment, including students from underrepresented and rural communities
• Define and track learning and workforce outcomes
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to WIL proposals when you authorize naming

Apply to be considered.

Requirements:

Required

• Experience leading agricultural, food-systems, or extension education or training programs
• Partnerships with producers, agribusiness, or land-grant institutions
• Curriculum or experiential-learning program design
• Program evaluation or outcomes-reporting experience
• Comfortable as a project-based contract collaborator; remote US

Nice to have

• Prior federal agricultural education or workforce grant experience
• Cooperative Extension background
• Rural community engagement experience