Community Outreach Professional I (Phoenix, AZ)

Under the supervision of the Director, assist with coordinating day-to-day activities for one or more grant-funded projects, ensuring alignment with approved scopes of work, timelines, and deliverables. Assist and support in planning and implementation of grant-funded workshops, trainings, demonstrations, field days, and outreach events. May serve as the main point of contact for coordination among principal investigators, project staff, industry partners, and community stakeholders. Under supervision, assist with tracking project milestones, activities, and outcomes to document progress and grant reporting. Help to collect, organize, and summarize qualitative and quantitative data for evaluation, impact assessment, and funding reports. Maintain accurate project documentation and records in compliance with sponsor and University requirements. Under supervision, assist with efforts to secure competitive funds, including grant-writing, budgeting, and reporting with assistance and input from the Center faculty and staff. Participate in team meetings and contribute to continuous improvement of grant-funded programming. Creatively apply own knowledge, skills, and experience to establish contacts, professional relationship and build collaborations with other agencies and organization to further the mission of the Center locally and nationally in collaboration with the faculty and other staff. Assist with budget monitoring, purchasing, invoicing, reimbursements, and financial tracking in coordination with Center and administrative staff. Support development of grant-related materials, including reports, presentations, outreach products, and communications. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. Ability to communicate effectively with different groups/individuals. Knowledge of arid and semi-arid agriculture production. Ability to coordinate programs or projects, preferably in a grant-funded, academic, nonprofit, or government setting. Good organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.