This study investigated the county Extension agent role in organizing community development, the direction and intensity of expectations held by district supervisors and presidents of local community development associations, and factors (sex, age, formal education, farm or nonfarm upbringing, previous role experience, communication behavior) associated with greater or lesser consensus between and within the three groups. Sixteen North Carolina district agents, and a stratified sample of 60 county agents and 60 association presidents, were surveyed by mail questionnaire. Major findings were: (1) district agents, county agents, and association presidents differed significantly on the desired direction and extent of county agent role behavior; (2) within each group, formal education was related to agreement on role definition, but age, sex, and farm or nonfarm upbringing were not; (3) kinds and frequency of communication behavior, and previous role experience, were only slightly related to agreement within groups. (LY)