For more information about this position please visit: https://jobs.usu.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1263403291180. A brief description is provided below:
This position is tenure track (70% Extension, 25% research, and 5% service) within the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences. Duties include, but are not limited to:
1. Development of Extension programming to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs with production and processing of quality foods. The specific areas of extension programming will be dependent on the changing needs of clientele throughout the state and may include:
a. one-on-one product development assistance.
b. designing and formulating foods for improved human nutrition.
c. new food uses for agricultural products.
d. develop food entrepreneurship skills among high school and university students.
2. Maintain a research project with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Research can be basic or applied in nature, and it should support and be aligned with extension major programming.
Responsibilities The successful candidate will be responsible for development of extension programming to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs with production and processing of quality foods. The specialist will coordinate academic and outreach services of the department’s Food Innovation Laboratory, including development of food entrepreneurship skills among students, and provide support for existing Extension programs including Sustainable Agriculture, Food Safety, Organic Foods, Food Security, Diversified Agriculture (http://extension.usu.edu), and the Utah’s Own program sponsored by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (http://utahsown.utah.gov/). Additional programming will provide assistance to the Utah food industry towards meeting regulations and implementing current processing technologies.
