Farm Progress Cos., the country’s agriculture information leader, is seeking candidates for a newly created full-time position to work out of its Urbandale (Des Moines), Ia. or St. Charles, Ill. office. 

 General responsibilities include formatting, editing, preparing and uploading local copy from state/regional magazine editors.   This person will also be responsible for developing projects/programs to optimize web browser search engine traffic to Farm Progress online content.  

Selected individual must be able to meet daily deadline schedules, communicate effectively, and embrace collaborating with off-site field editors and other staff to create an outstanding online experience for the agricultural community. 

The ideal candidate will have up to three years of related responsibilities, including a demonstrated ability to understand social media, HTML/web experience, web video editing/management, and experience with Microsoft Office products.  A background in search engine marketing is preferred.

Interested external persons can send resume to recruiter@farmprogress.com or contact Scott Brummel, Human Resources Director at 630-462-2255.

Anyone interested can send a private message through Facebook to Julie Reese, AGCO Corporate Marketing, at http://www.facebook.com/AGCOcorp

U.S. Wheat Associates (USW), a non-profit organization working to promote exports on behalf of wheat producers, has an opening for a Communications Specialist in its Arlington, VA, Headquarters.

For more information regarding this position, see link below.

USW Communications Specialist Job Description

The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is seeking a full-time Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities Program Manager to provide management and leadership to NCAT’s Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities Program.

For details concerning the posistion click the link below.

SARCProgramManager

The selected intern will be assigned to projects overseen by the intern coordinator, pertaining to timely topics important to agriculture and rural communities. As such, applicants should specify their areas of interest and how their background provides them the proper knowledge and abilities to excel in this internship.

The department carries out a number of programs, activities and functions, including media relations, issues management, and management of public relations campaigns and events. On a day-to-day basis, the department responds to media inquiries, arranges media interviews for AFBF leaders and staff; produces the organization’s newsletters, FBNews and Foodie News; writes and designs brochures and pamphlets for internal and external audiences; writes and distributes news releases; produces radio reports and video news releases, and oversees the organization’s public Web site; an intranet site, Facebook fan pages and Twitter account.

The department’s work program is designed to complement the programs conducted by state Farm Bureaus and to serve as a resource to state Farm Bureaus.

Interns will receive a stipend equal to $15 per hour, based on a 7.5 hour day, for work days included in the dates of the internship. The start and end dates of the internship are flexible, but the intern will be expected to work a minimum of 8 to 10 weeks. Housing will not be provided, but AFBF staff will be happy to assist with the search and provide some housing contacts.

The deadline for application is March 22, 2010. Applicants will be notified of their selection status no later than March 31, 2010.

AFBF PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERN APPLICANT CHECKLIST (you must forward all of the following by mail or email to be considered for this internship):

_____Cover letter

_____Resume

_____Two (2) letters of recommendation

_____Up to three (3) writing, graphic design or broadcast samples

Send your materials to:

Cyndie Sirekis

Director of News Services

600 Maryland Ave., SW

Suite 1000W

Washington, DC  20024

cyndies@fb.org

Phone: (202) 406-3649

Fax: (202) 406-3602

If you have any questions regarding this position, please feel free to contact Cyndie directly. We look forward to receiving your applications.

AAEA summer intern to work for Farm Industry News

Each year, the American Agricultural Editors Association sponsors (through a Professional Improvement Foundation grant) one college student to work for 10 weeks at one of our member media companies. This year, the host media for the AAEA Summer Intern program will be Farm Industry News, under the direction of Karen McMahon.

In expressing her interest for hosting the AAEA summer intern, Karen wrote, “ Our magazine reaches 200,000 corn and soybean growers in the Midwest. We would be able to given an intern firsthand experience in writing, photography, and producing online material for the magazine. In fact, we are very involved in online video work and would be able to provide great experience in that area as well.”

If you’re a communications college student and you have an interest in agriculture, we urge you to apply for this invaluable real life ag communications internship for the summer of 2010. You can find the application form and instructions by clicking here. The postmark deadline for this program is Feb. 15, 2010. The deadline has been extended to Feb 26th.

Karen also mentioned that the Farm Industry News staff is eager to work with an intern this summer!

If you’re an AAEA member and you know a student who might be interested, please tell him or her about the AAEA Summer Intern program, and urge them to apply before the deadline.

Mindy Williamson can be reached at mwilliamson@iowacorn.org.

Kim Deats, Editor
Agweek
Box 6008
Grand Forks, ND 58206-6008
Phone: 701 780-1236
Email: kdeats@agweek.com

See flyer for additional details.

The USCP is the newly established national checkoff program for sorghum producers. The USCP is responsible for promotion, research and information programs for the U.S. sorghum industry. USCP has hired the National Sorghum Producers (NSP) as the management entity for the USCP.

POSITION: Communications Director Exempt position

REPORTS TO: Virgil Smail, Executive Director

HOURS PER WEEK: 40 hours/week plus additional hours as needed

LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas

Position Summary

This position manages all aspects of Communications for the United Sorghum Checkoff Program. Responsibilities include managing the day to day operations; management of related projects and contracts; compliant operations; building of checkoff related messaging in all types of communications media (print, broadcast and electronic); special events; work with the volunteer board and committee(s); media relations; maintenance and oversight of related database(s). Some travel is required (30%).

For more detailed information please download the USCP position announcement PDF and contact:

Joy Fassauer
United Sorghum Checkoff Program
4201 North Interstate 27
Lubbock, Texas 79403
1-806-687-8727