UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Notice of Intent to File a Labor Condition Application to Employ
An Alien H-1B Temporary Worker at Utah State University

Utah State University Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources is hiring one H-1B nonimmigrant employee for the full-time position of Assistant Professor in Kanab, Utah. The anticipated period of employment will be August 16, 2021 through August 15, 2024. The salary is $55,000 per academic year.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Teaching: %

Research or Creative Endeavors: 55%

Service: 5% 

Extension: 95%

Service: 5%

Expectations for Extension (Relative weight = 95%)

Extension activity represents the major emphasis of your role statement; therefore, you are expected to perform with excellence in this domain in order to be tenured and promoted to Extension Associate Professor. As an Extension Assistant Professor, you will provide the public, primarily within the state, with research-based information and other university resources. You are expected to provide high-quality leadership to the Extension activities and areas you are assigned, serve as a liaison between your clients and the University, and collaborate with other Extension personnel.

  • Provide leadership to Extension activities.
  • Implement and direct programs that respond to clientele needs and issues.
  • Demonstrate scholarship in Extension.
  • Manage budgets and personnel.

Expectations for Service (Relative weight = 5%) 

In judging your efforts in the service domain, your Utah State University colleagues will look for evidence of your contributions to a variety of significant and meaningful service. Examples of service activities are described in Faculty Code 405.2.2(4) and may include:

  • Service as a member or leader of departmental, college and university committees such as curriculum, awards, search and tenure advisory committees.
  • Service as a member or leader of faculty organizations, including USU Faculty Senate.
  • Service as a reviewer of manuscripts or editor to a scientific or professional publication.

The Labor Condition Application is available for public inspection in the premises of the above named department at Utah State University. Complaints alleging misrepresentation of material facts in the Labor Condition Application and/or failure to comply with the terms of the Labor Condition Application may be filed with any office of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor.

Dates posted:  ________July 27, 2021________________  to  ____August 18, 2021____________________

I hereby certify that the above Job Description was posted in two conspicuous public places; one in the USU Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the other in the Human Resources Office where other similar notices and postings are placed on the dates indicated.

            Dated this ___27____ day of ____July______, 2021

            Signed: ____         Justen Smith Signature  Justen Smith - Director-Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources___

            Department:___________Utah State University Extension________