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Position Description: The Research Technician – Horticulture provides technical, hands-on support for top-ranked integrated field research and educational programs involving the North Carolina A&T State University Agricultural Research program, and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems Small Farm Unit in Goldsboro, NC. This position is responsible for supporting and assisting in a unique long-term specialty fruit and vegetable research program in the nation involving production, variety trials, data collection, data analysis, report preparation, and community engagement under the leadership of CEFS Director at N.C. A&T and the Small Farm Unit Manager. Duties include crop establishment and maintenance; harvesting/post-harvest handling of crops associated with researchers and research support in CAES; greenhouse and high tunnel management; recordkeeping, financial benchmark analysis, data collection and entry; and communication with researchers, staff, students, producer groups and community-based organizations, co-workers, and other organization staff.