Continuing Education Specialist | North Carolina A&T State University - Military Veterans
at HERC- Carolinas
Description: The primary responsibility of the Continuing Education Specialist will be to oversee entrepreneurial educational training and activities related to entrepreneurial /small business development for farm operations, agribusinesses and food entrepreneurs and to serve as a liaison between Continuing Education at NC A&T SU for the HBCU Agriculture Business Innovation Center ( ABIC ), which is primarily funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The HBCU - ABIC is housed at NC A&T SU, in partnership with Alabama A&M University, Kentucky State University, and West Virginia State University, to serve as the administrative hub for national agricultural entrepreneurial teaching, outreach, and research activities. The Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program Associate will report to the center's Managing Director and will be responsible for providing quality programming for a diverse adult learner population and performing program management and implementation duties and responsibilities in alignment with the center's objectives. The objectives of this HBCU - ABIC are twofold: (1) to provide technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farms, firms, and individuals' with interests in agricultural and food systems through the development of an entrepreneurial academy , which will offer (a) a professional development certification program providing entrepreneurial training, consultation, workshops, and other educational resources and activities, (b) a
Greensboro, NC
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