While Extension educators are often highly committed to their jobs, researchers have found that job demands, burnout, and turnover plague the system. This study explores the relationship between job characteristics, burnout, engagement, and turnover intention among a nationally representative sample of Cooperative Extension educators. This cross-sectional quantitative research design examined the relationship between job characteristics, burnout, engagement, and turnover intention of agriculture, community development, family and consumer sciences, natural resources, and youth development educators (n=855). Collected through a web-based survey platform, relationships were analyzed using descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, and path analysis. Mean scores, combined with the ANOVAs, of each construct suggested that Extension educators generally perceive higher than average levels of job resources and engagement; however, youth development educators experience the most challenging work environment, as indicated by higher levels of job demands, burnout, and turnover intention as well as lower levels of engagement. Hypotheses testing using structural equation modeling revealed that seven of the 12 hypotheses were supported and six of the eight direct paths were found to be statistically significant. These significant path coefficients reflected direct, positive effects between job demands and burnout, burnout and turnover intention, job demands and engagement, and job resources and engagement; and direct, negative effects between job resources and burnout, burnout and engagement, and job demands and engagement. The findings revealed statistically significant indirect effects between both job demands and engagement as well as between job resources and turnover intention. In addition, results indicated partial mediation of burnout between job resources and turnover intention as well as job demands and turnover intention. While burnout was expected to fully mediate both dimensions of job characteristics and the relationship between engagement and turnover intention, the only relationship that was fully mediated by burnout was job resources and engagement. Findings from this study indicated that job demands has a larger effect on engagement than job resources, while job resources has a larger effect on burnout as compared to job demands. This study helped to address a gap in the literature and provide insight for Extension leadership related to underlying factors of engagement and turnover intention. Understanding engagement and turnover intention is important as Cooperative Extension manages a complex and changing work environment in part to encourage the retention and success of educators. The significance of these findings in relation to leadership and Cooperative Extension is discussed and recommendations are offered for future research. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]