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Working/Functional Title

Finance & Homeownership Program Instr.

Position Summary

Michigan State University Extension is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive organization, which requires all staff to contribute towards a vision for success. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our work, regardless of title or position within the organization. This means that all staff at MSU Extension are dedicated to the following:

• We work together to ensure that programming is delivered to diverse audiences, produces equitable impacts for all participants, and demonstrates partnership and inclusion for all groups.
• We embrace that it is everyone's job to create a culture that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
• We ensure that every team member is prepared with the skills and resources to contribute to our welcoming and inclusive culture.
• We foster inclusion by recognizing and valuing diverse perspectives, skills, experiences, and work to create equal access to programming for communities.
• We commit to continuous learning for diversity, equity, and cultural competency, in order to achieve inclusive excellence.
• We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements to our work and are vital to the organizational culture and programmatic success of MSU Extension.
• We embrace a culture of understanding, coaching and feedback towards achieving a vision of success for the entire organization and its staff.
• Together we will achieve success and we commit to these goals in our work, continued education, and ongoing efforts.

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POSITION SUMMARY

As part of MSU Extension (MSUE) and the Community, Food & Environment Institute, this position provides leadership and oversight of local programs, clients, and participants, related to MSU Extension   as part of the Financial and Homeownership Education work team.

As a team member of the Financial and Homeownership Education work team, you will oversee and ensure program/project promotion and expansion activities and assist with data gathering for impact evaluation efforts. You will work in conjunction with your supervisor, program participants and community partners to attain both short-term and long-term goals and objectives. Through your supervising educator, you will work in concert with the appropriate MSU Extension Institute and/or work team(s) to ensure alignment of programs with overall goals of work team, Institute, and organization.

In this role, you will conduct workshops and trainings as a means of outreach and education. Workshop topics should be relevant to the participants and the community in which they live, with a DEI lens, and may include but are not limited to topics such as: budgeting, savings, banking products, credit building, identity theft, homebuyer education, foreclosure, and post-foreclosure. Additional trainings will be focused on providing financial literacy instruction for human service agency professionals.

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You will work to improve the knowledge and skills of consumers in the application of financial management techniques and processes and teach participants how to resolve current financial situations, while providing a wide lens on their financial health to shift the approach to proactive financial management and foreclosure prevention. You will also contribute to the effective use of financial, homeownership and pre/ post-foreclosure education as a part of overall social, economic, and community developm