NIFA encourages qualified, diverse college leaders to apply for new facilitator positions at the 2017 National 4-H Conference.
The Division of Youth and 4-H at NIFA is engaging in a mass email campaign to diversify the college facilitator application pool for the March 2017 Conference. Our list includes all NIFA staff, key Cooperative Extension Service stakeholders, and youth-serving federal agencies and national organizations.
The 2017 application form along with instructions and qualification criteria can be found on the 4-H website.
Applications are due October 3, 2016 and must be emailed to info@sstewartmeetings.com.
Questions should be directed to natl4hconf@nifa.usda.gov.
Background
National 4-H Conference is the premier, national leadership and civic engagement youth event in 4-H and will occur next on March 25-30, 2017. During the Conference, 4-H youth delegates, who are high school students, present their voices in 15 to 30 minute briefings to federal agencies on pressing national topics. College youth serve a major role at the Conference as group facilitators for these high school youth roundtables, guiding the development and presentation of the briefings. We seek diverse college students with demonstrated skills in leadership, group facilitation, conflict resolution, organization, oral and written presentation to serve as facilitators; membership in 4-H is not a requirement for new college facilitators. College credit is an available option upon request, and facilitators’ expenses are covered (shared room for the week at National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland all meals on campus, round-trip transportation).
