CARE 4-H Wellness Educator - Watertown, NY

Job description

This position will serve as the full-time Community Assets Resiliency Education (CARE) 4-H Wellness Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension Association of Jefferson County and 4-H under the Youth and Family Program Area. The CARE 4-H Wellness Educator will provide both youth and family education using pre-approved lesson plans and curricula, specifically for households in the Watertown area and the Fort Drum Military Installation. This includes the Watertown, Indian River, and Carthage School Districts’ geographic boundaries. This position’s primary responsibility is to coordinate, collaborate, design, and provide adult-supervised research-based programs for 200 youth between the ages of 10-13 annually within these geographic boundaries. While this educator will lead some of this programming, they will also recruit, train, and support 4-H volunteers to provide 4-H Club programming. This programming may take place after school, on the weekends, during school breaks, and in the evenings, within the 40-hour work week. The schedule may vary from week to week but can be planned in advance to accommodate both programming and educator needs as much as possible. Youth programming will b...