Campus

OSU-Stillwater

Contact Name & Email

Cheryl DeVuyst, cheryl.devuyst@okstate.edu

Work Schedule

Monday through Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm with occasional evenings and weekends.

Appointment Length

Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice

Hiring Range

Commensurate with education and experience

Special Instructions to Applicants

For full consideration, please include a resume, cover letter and contact information for three professional references.

About this Position

About the Department

The Department of Agricultural Economics has over 600 undergraduate students, 50 M.S. and Ph.D. students, and 25 faculty. The department prides itself on excellence in all three areas of the Land Grant mission through research, teaching, and extension. For more information about the department, go to: https://agriculture.okstate.edu/departments-programs/agecon/

The Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a 90% extension and 10% teaching position. This position carries the expectations of excellence in extension and teaching commensurate with the land grant mission of Oklahoma State University.

Position description

The Extension State Program Specialist position is a 90 percent Extension and 10 percent teaching staff appointment in the Department of Agricultural Economics.  The primary responsibility of this position is to provide leadership and support with farm management, production research, and Cooperative Extension educational efforts within the department. This may include, but is not limited to, planning, implementation, or evaluation of agreed upon assignments within farm management. Aspects of the position’s responsibilities may require grantsmanship / securing extramural funds, and the ability to collaborate with other public and private sector entities.  The Extension State Program Specialist is expected to work closely with the Area Extension Ag Economics Specialists, as well as with the faculty and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University.

Major responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Extension

Enterprise budgets and other software tools.  Provide leadership with the design, development, promotion, maintenance and evaluation of farm management software tools.  Deliver timely annual budget updates for a set of commodity production activities and maintain the corresponding enterprise budget website.  Provide other software-based farm management decision tools as stakeholder needs evolve.  Provide relevant educational outreach materials with practical applications for extension educators.

Oklahoma Land values.  Sustain a land tract sales database collected from the Farm Credit Associations of Oklahoma or other collaborators with annual updates. Extend a discussion of the results through various media outlets such as SUNUP interviews and webinars. In addition, update the “Oklahoma Land Values” website with current land value information.

Land tenure/custom rates.  Develop and distribute surveys to the Oklahoma public to determine rental rates for agricultural land under share, cash, and other payment arrangements as well as rates for custom agricultural services. Collaborate with USDA/NASS for survey delivery. Compile research results and publish the information via Extension Fact Sheets.

Teaching

Rural land appraisal. Teaching a course for joint undergraduate / graduate credit specializing in land values and real estate appraisal. Collaboration with the real estate appraisal industry will be important in maintaining the value of the course materials. Knowledge and use of PVPLUS and other valuation software is preferred.

Required Qualifications

• The successful candidate must have a Masters of Science degree in agricultural economics, or a closely related discipline.

  (degree must be conferred on or before agreed upon start date)
• Skills, Proficiencies, and/or Knowledge:

  Provide agricultural budgets, land values and rental rates for agricultural lenders, farm managers, rural appraisers, and agricultural producers. Have knowledge of farmland appraisals and agricultural real estate. Have the ability to teach a Farm Appraisal course.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D./Ed.D.