The major focus of the study was the development of a clear concise description of job tasks of the "educational development officer," a role model of which had been developed and piloted in North Carolina by a governmental research unit, the Junior and Community College Division of the National Laboratory of Higher Education, located in North Carolina. Data were collected by means of a two-part questionnaire (consisting of a Personal Data Sheet and a Job Task Perception Inventory) from 71 respondents (88.8% of the sample) in 11 institutions in the North Carolina system of community colleges and technical institutes identified as experimenting with the job of the educational development officer. Since it was fairly well agreed, from the study results, that the job of the educational development officer was and should continue to be primarily that of a learning specialist who works with faculty for the improvement of the instructional and curriculum development process, one of the conclusions was that there was a need for the performance of this role to be apparent to those employed in the institutions in which it is operative. This full report of the study includes a discussion of its limitations, personal and situational characteristics of respondents, and the complete proposed job description of an educational development officer. (SH)