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Position	Department	Location
Assistant Extension Professor	190500 - Water Resources Research Institute	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute invite applicants to a 12-month, Assistant Extension Professor faculty position in the area of water science and management. We are specifically looking for candidates with expertise in drinking water and wastewater management (public or private), public health engineering, and watershed science/management. Candidates with strengths in research and communication are preferred. Applicants should be able to articulate a prospective research program that has promise for sustainable external funding and regional/national recognition. The faculty member will be administratively responsible to the Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute with a joint appointment in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department or Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. The faculty member will work in concert with faculty and staff from their home department at Mississippi State University and other departments across campus as well as other institutions.
Campus Security Officer	470900 - Police	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
This position is a non-sworn, uniformed officer. The following examples are intended as illustrations only of the various types of duties assigned in positions allocated to this classification. The absence of specific statements of duties does not exclude those tasks from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment of the position.
Inventory & Property Control Manager	330200 - Office of the CIO	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Inventory & Property Control Manager serves as the contact for all property control, fleet management, physical security, and all shipping/receiving functions for Information Technology Services (ITS). This position also coordinates warranty returns for ITS units and is involved with ITS employee onboarding and offboarding.
Campus Security Officer (Meridian)	470900 - Police	Meridian Campus - Meridian, MS
This position is a non-sworn, uniformed officer. The following examples are intended as illustrations only of the various types of duties assigned in positions allocated to this classification. The absence of specific statements of duties does not exclude those tasks from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment of the position.
Office Associate	012102 - Human Sciences- Early Childhood	Warren County
Perform a variety of basic to complex office support and/or secretarial duties for the MS Child Care Resource and Referral, which require a range of skills and knowledge of organizational policies and procedures.
Intern	183900 - CVM Pathobiology/Population Med Dep	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
This internship at Mississippi State University is a 12-month clinical program. The intern will rotate between the surgery & medicine (food animal) and theriogenology (all species) services in house, and also the ambulatory service (large animal, including equine), with approximately equal time spent on each service. The internship provides training in clinical, hospital based service through interaction with clinical specialists (DACVIM, DABVP (Food Animal), DACT, MPH). The program is designed to prepare the individual for a residency in a corresponding discipline or entry into private practice. The program is directly supported by 2 diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2 diplomates of the American College of Theriogenologists, 1 diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Food Animal), 2 clinical faculty professors, 2 clinical instructors, and 4 support staff. The food animal in house clinic annual case load is 1,200-1,500 cases/year (beef 60%, dairy 30%, small ruminants 10%), and ambulatory makes 1000 trips/year (40% equine, 40% beef cow/calf and 20% dairy/small ruminants).
Assistant Research Professor	013200 - Delta Research and Extension Center	Stoneville, MS
This position is a 100% Research appointment with Mississippi State University located at the Delta Research and Extension Center, National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research (NCAAR) in Stoneville, MS, with an academic affiliation in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Mississippi State University. The incumbent will pursue an innovative and comprehensive program in agronomy focused on water use in agriculture with objectives considering scientific merit, practical needs of Mississippi producers, and the preservation of groundwater resources. The primary function of this position will be to develop, coordinate and implement research programs aimed at reducing irrigation needs of agronomic crops in the Mississippi Delta. The incumbent will work as part of a multidisciplinary team involved in research and extension related to water use in agricultural systems. In particular, the incumbent will conduct research on established technologies and practices that improve irrigation efficiency (i.e. computerized hole selection, surge valves, soil moisture sensors, etc.) and develop novel approaches to reduce the demand for irrigation in local agronomic crops. Develop and maintain close working relationships with producers and the agricultural industry, including commodity groups, governmental agencies, stakeholders, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researchers, MSU Extension specialists, Extension agents, and others. This interaction ensures that irrigation research programs are focused on the most pressing needs of stakeholders. The incumbent should have experience in irrigated row crop agricultural production and demonstrated, or potential for, excellence in research and scientific article publication as well as proficiency in extramural grant writing. In addition to research activities, the successful candidate may be appointed an administrative role as MSU Coordinator of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research.
Assistant Professor	080300 - FWRC-Wildlife,Fisheries&Aquaculture	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University (MSU), invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track faculty position with 65% teaching and 35% research responsibilities. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Assistant Professor	320100 - General Library	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Mississippi State University Libraries seek a dynamic, visionary, and collaborative scholar to serve as an Assistant Professor. This 12-month, tenure-track faculty position offers an extraordinary opportunity to lead one of the most significant collections of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War materials in the nation - the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana - housed alongside the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University. The successful candidate will provide intellectual, curatorial, and scholarly leadership for the collection; foster research, teaching, and public engagement; and supervise a full-time professional staff member responsible for archival processing and collection management. The faculty member will hold the Assistant Professor rank within MSU Libraries and report to the Frank and Virginia Williams Endowed Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies.
Intermittent Worker	080300 - FWRC-Wildlife,Fisheries&Aquaculture	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The MSU Deer Lab at Mississippi State University is seeking an intermittent technician to collect environmental samples from scrapes, food plots, and feeders to assess the occurrence of chronic wasting disease in Mississippi and Tennessee. The selected candidate will be responsible for logistics associated with sample collection and processing. This position will start in November, 2025 and last through March 2026.
Customer Services Assistant	730100 - Transportation	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Serves as the front-line contact person for all customers, including telephone, walk-in, departmental and general public customers of Parking & Transit Services at not only the Parking and Transit Services central office in the Roberts Building, but in the secondary Customer Service locations at the MSU Welcome Center and Old Main Academic Center. Serves as the primary intake for customer service-related request. Works with others in the Parking and Transit Services Customer Service unit by assisting with customer service events, including trainings, presentations, Orientations, and other outreach efforts. Also works within their unit to compile and present to the Parking and Transit Services administration timely reports related to permits, citations, and other Parking, Transit, or Customer Service-related metrics. Intake and compilation of incident reports related to any and all Parking or Transit related assistance include but not limited to towing, jump-offs, tire assistance, gate breaches or issues, wheel locks, etc. Provides advice and assistance to the university community and its visitors regarding parking & transit matters.
Cook	012102 - Human Sciences- Early Childhood	Hancock County
The Cook is responsible for the implementation of food services in a Head Start/Early Head Start program serving children 6 weeks to 5 years of age.  Responsibilities include preparing attractive, USDA-approved and CACFP-approved meals; keeping the kitchen clean and sanitary according to Health Department ordinances, maintaining adequate food stocks (ordering milk and food), kitchen supplies, attending trainings and food service records, including production books, menu writing. The Cook will ultimately be evaluated on a combination of skills, dispositions and behaviors, some of which are related to the specific service area of this position and others that represent general expectations of all Mississippi State University – Extension Head Start Program employees. Immediate Supervisor: Center Operations Coordinator
Postdoctoral Associate	191001 - Northern Gulf Institute	Miami, FL
The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) at Mississippi State University is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate to spearhead a large-scale marine biodiversity assessment project using environmental DNA (eDNA) collected across the global ocean through the Bio-GO-SHIP project. This position is based at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. The successful candidate will be at the forefront of this major initiative to generate and analyze metabarcoding data from thousands of marine water samples, significantly advancing our understanding of ocean life. This role involves extensive laboratory work in development of high-throughput metabarcoding assays; library preparation using those assays; bioinformatics data analysis, including taxonomic database improvement and the evaluation of novel assignment tools; and data publishing to global biodiversity repositories. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of California – Irvine, and the Minderoo Foundation, and to make foundational contributions to global marine biodiversity monitoring and open data infrastructure.
Postdoctoral Associate	191001 - Northern Gulf Institute	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The postdoctoral research associate will contribute to an ONR sponsored research project that examines air-sea-wave processes that relate to momentum flux variability in the tropical cyclone environment. The successful candidate will conduct and analyze numerical sensitivity modeling experiments utilizing the Navy’s coupled tropical cyclone modeling system and other coupled modeling systems to verify against field observations to identify momentum exchange processes that influence tropical cyclone intensity change. The postdoc will be based at the Northern Gulf Institute at Mississippi State’s campus and have access to MSU High Performance Computing Collaboratory supercomputing servers to conduct experiments. Funding is available for 18 months with opportunity for extension. Funds for conference travel are included. Anticipated start date of June 1, 2025 with some flexibility.
Postdoctoral Associate	191001 - Northern Gulf Institute	Miami, FL
The principal function of the postdoc is to contribute to configuring an Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) water quality model for the South Florida region and use this model to simulate and analyze past and projected regional patterns, with a focus on net primary production and subsequent carbon transport and settlement rates in and out of Biscayne Bay. The outputs of the coastal model will be used to characterize climate change impacts on water quality and carbon transport in and out of the estuary. Addition to the modeling efforts, the position will also have the tasks of constructing literature reviews and providing carbon data input for NOAA databases. The postdoc will be based at the NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. She/he will be part of a multidisciplinary team, which includes researchers at NOAA, Mississippi State University, University of Miami, University of South Florida, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, and Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association.
Accounts Receivable Accountant I, II, III	450200 - Office of the Controller/Treasurer	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Accounts Receivable Accountant provides accounting support within the Controller and Treasurer’s Office and assists Business Managers, Accountants and other fiscal personnel at the university. Ensures processes and procedures related to student accounts receivables are carried out in an accurate and timely manner. Provides support to students and parents in understanding their financial obligations to the University.
Building Maintenance Tech I or II	490140 - Building Services	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Perform a variety of duties in support of services provided by Facilities Management including routine minor maintenance and upkeep of buildings.
Program Coordinator, NRTC - Part-time	053700 - NRTC-Nat'l Research Ctr Blindness	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Program Coordinator supports the implementation and tracking of specific project activities and deliverables for a large 5-year grant. Primary responsibilities include (a) managing logistics, (b) maintaining a schedule for all project deadlines, (c) assisting with the implementation of an existing project work plan, (d) copy-editing and formatting written products, and (e) collecting and compiling program evaluation and other relevant data. The major objective of the position is to ensure that all planned grant activities occur seamlessly and within the specified timelines. This is a benefits-eligible, part-time position working an estimated 60% FTE.
Assistant Professor	011300 - Animal & Dairy Science	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences is currently seeking an Assistant Professor for a 9-month tenure track (40% teaching, 60% research) position with an emphasis in applied animal behavior and well-being.
Assistant Professor	011300 - Animal & Dairy Science	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences is currently seeking an Assistant Professor for a 9-month tenure track (40% research, 60% teaching) position in Meat Science with an emphasis in applied research. The teaching and research area of interest for this position should encompass harvest, fabrication, further processing technologies and carcass evaluation.

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Position	Department	Location
Assistant Extension Professor	190500 - Water Resources Research Institute	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute invite applicants to a 12-month, Assistant Extension Professor faculty position in the area of water science and management. We are specifically looking for candidates with expertise in drinking water and wastewater management (public or private), public health engineering, and watershed science/management. Candidates with strengths in research and communication are preferred. Applicants should be able to articulate a prospective research program that has promise for sustainable external funding and regional/national recognition. The faculty member will be administratively responsible to the Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute with a joint appointment in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department or Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. The faculty member will work in concert with faculty and staff from their home department at Mississippi State University and other departments across campus as well as other institutions.
Campus Security Officer	470900 - Police	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
This position is a non-sworn, uniformed officer. The following examples are intended as illustrations only of the various types of duties assigned in positions allocated to this classification. The absence of specific statements of duties does not exclude those tasks from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment of the position.
Inventory & Property Control Manager	330200 - Office of the CIO	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Inventory & Property Control Manager serves as the contact for all property control, fleet management, physical security, and all shipping/receiving functions for Information Technology Services (ITS). This position also coordinates warranty returns for ITS units and is involved with ITS employee onboarding and offboarding.
Campus Security Officer (Meridian)	470900 - Police	Meridian Campus - Meridian, MS
This position is a non-sworn, uniformed officer. The following examples are intended as illustrations only of the various types of duties assigned in positions allocated to this classification. The absence of specific statements of duties does not exclude those tasks from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment of the position.
Office Associate	012102 - Human Sciences- Early Childhood	Warren County
Perform a variety of basic to complex office support and/or secretarial duties for the MS Child Care Resource and Referral, which require a range of skills and knowledge of organizational policies and procedures.
Intern	183900 - CVM Pathobiology/Population Med Dep	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
This internship at Mississippi State University is a 12-month clinical program. The intern will rotate between the surgery & medicine (food animal) and theriogenology (all species) services in house, and also the ambulatory service (large animal, including equine), with approximately equal time spent on each service. The internship provides training in clinical, hospital based service through interaction with clinical specialists (DACVIM, DABVP (Food Animal), DACT, MPH). The program is designed to prepare the individual for a residency in a corresponding discipline or entry into private practice. The program is directly supported by 2 diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2 diplomates of the American College of Theriogenologists, 1 diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Food Animal), 2 clinical faculty professors, 2 clinical instructors, and 4 support staff. The food animal in house clinic annual case load is 1,200-1,500 cases/year (beef 60%, dairy 30%, small ruminants 10%), and ambulatory makes 1000 trips/year (40% equine, 40% beef cow/calf and 20% dairy/small ruminants).
Assistant Research Professor	013200 - Delta Research and Extension Center	Stoneville, MS
This position is a 100% Research appointment with Mississippi State University located at the Delta Research and Extension Center, National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research (NCAAR) in Stoneville, MS, with an academic affiliation in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Mississippi State University. The incumbent will pursue an innovative and comprehensive program in agronomy focused on water use in agriculture with objectives considering scientific merit, practical needs of Mississippi producers, and the preservation of groundwater resources. The primary function of this position will be to develop, coordinate and implement research programs aimed at reducing irrigation needs of agronomic crops in the Mississippi Delta. The incumbent will work as part of a multidisciplinary team involved in research and extension related to water use in agricultural systems. In particular, the incumbent will conduct research on established technologies and practices that improve irrigation efficiency (i.e. computerized hole selection, surge valves, soil moisture sensors, etc.) and develop novel approaches to reduce the demand for irrigation in local agronomic crops. Develop and maintain close working relationships with producers and the agricultural industry, including commodity groups, governmental agencies, stakeholders, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researchers, MSU Extension specialists, Extension agents, and others. This interaction ensures that irrigation research programs are focused on the most pressing needs of stakeholders. The incumbent should have experience in irrigated row crop agricultural production and demonstrated, or potential for, excellence in research and scientific article publication as well as proficiency in extramural grant writing. In addition to research activities, the successful candidate may be appointed an administrative role as MSU Coordinator of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research.
Assistant Professor	080300 - FWRC-Wildlife,Fisheries&Aquaculture	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University (MSU), invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track faculty position with 65% teaching and 35% research responsibilities. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Assistant Professor	320100 - General Library	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Mississippi State University Libraries seek a dynamic, visionary, and collaborative scholar to serve as an Assistant Professor. This 12-month, tenure-track faculty position offers an extraordinary opportunity to lead one of the most significant collections of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War materials in the nation - the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana - housed alongside the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University. The successful candidate will provide intellectual, curatorial, and scholarly leadership for the collection; foster research, teaching, and public engagement; and supervise a full-time professional staff member responsible for archival processing and collection management. The faculty member will hold the Assistant Professor rank within MSU Libraries and report to the Frank and Virginia Williams Endowed Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies.
Intermittent Worker	080300 - FWRC-Wildlife,Fisheries&Aquaculture	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The MSU Deer Lab at Mississippi State University is seeking an intermittent technician to collect environmental samples from scrapes, food plots, and feeders to assess the occurrence of chronic wasting disease in Mississippi and Tennessee. The selected candidate will be responsible for logistics associated with sample collection and processing. This position will start in November, 2025 and last through March 2026.
Customer Services Assistant	730100 - Transportation	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Serves as the front-line contact person for all customers, including telephone, walk-in, departmental and general public customers of Parking & Transit Services at not only the Parking and Transit Services central office in the Roberts Building, but in the secondary Customer Service locations at the MSU Welcome Center and Old Main Academic Center. Serves as the primary intake for customer service-related request. Works with others in the Parking and Transit Services Customer Service unit by assisting with customer service events, including trainings, presentations, Orientations, and other outreach efforts. Also works within their unit to compile and present to the Parking and Transit Services administration timely reports related to permits, citations, and other Parking, Transit, or Customer Service-related metrics. Intake and compilation of incident reports related to any and all Parking or Transit related assistance include but not limited to towing, jump-offs, tire assistance, gate breaches or issues, wheel locks, etc. Provides advice and assistance to the university community and its visitors regarding parking & transit matters.
Cook	012102 - Human Sciences- Early Childhood	Hancock County
The Cook is responsible for the implementation of food services in a Head Start/Early Head Start program serving children 6 weeks to 5 years of age.  Responsibilities include preparing attractive, USDA-approved and CACFP-approved meals; keeping the kitchen clean and sanitary according to Health Department ordinances, maintaining adequate food stocks (ordering milk and food), kitchen supplies, attending trainings and food service records, including production books, menu writing. The Cook will ultimately be evaluated on a combination of skills, dispositions and behaviors, some of which are related to the specific service area of this position and others that represent general expectations of all Mississippi State University – Extension Head Start Program employees. Immediate Supervisor: Center Operations Coordinator
Postdoctoral Associate	191001 - Northern Gulf Institute	Miami, FL
The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) at Mississippi State University is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate to spearhead a large-scale marine biodiversity assessment project using environmental DNA (eDNA) collected across the global ocean through the Bio-GO-SHIP project. This position is based at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. The successful candidate will be at the forefront of this major initiative to generate and analyze metabarcoding data from thousands of marine water samples, significantly advancing our understanding of ocean life. This role involves extensive laboratory work in development of high-throughput metabarcoding assays; library preparation using those assays; bioinformatics data analysis, including taxonomic database improvement and the evaluation of novel assignment tools; and data publishing to global biodiversity repositories. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of California – Irvine, and the Minderoo Foundation, and to make foundational contributions to global marine biodiversity monitoring and open data infrastructure.
Postdoctoral Associate	191001 - Northern Gulf Institute	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The postdoctoral research associate will contribute to an ONR sponsored research project that examines air-sea-wave processes that relate to momentum flux variability in the tropical cyclone environment. The successful candidate will conduct and analyze numerical sensitivity modeling experiments utilizing the Navy’s coupled tropical cyclone modeling system and other coupled modeling systems to verify against field observations to identify momentum exchange processes that influence tropical cyclone intensity change. The postdoc will be based at the Northern Gulf Institute at Mississippi State’s campus and have access to MSU High Performance Computing Collaboratory supercomputing servers to conduct experiments. Funding is available for 18 months with opportunity for extension. Funds for conference travel are included. Anticipated start date of June 1, 2025 with some flexibility.
Postdoctoral Associate	191001 - Northern Gulf Institute	Miami, FL
The principal function of the postdoc is to contribute to configuring an Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) water quality model for the South Florida region and use this model to simulate and analyze past and projected regional patterns, with a focus on net primary production and subsequent carbon transport and settlement rates in and out of Biscayne Bay. The outputs of the coastal model will be used to characterize climate change impacts on water quality and carbon transport in and out of the estuary. Addition to the modeling efforts, the position will also have the tasks of constructing literature reviews and providing carbon data input for NOAA databases. The postdoc will be based at the NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. She/he will be part of a multidisciplinary team, which includes researchers at NOAA, Mississippi State University, University of Miami, University of South Florida, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, and Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association.
Accounts Receivable Accountant I, II, III	450200 - Office of the Controller/Treasurer	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Accounts Receivable Accountant provides accounting support within the Controller and Treasurer’s Office and assists Business Managers, Accountants and other fiscal personnel at the university. Ensures processes and procedures related to student accounts receivables are carried out in an accurate and timely manner. Provides support to students and parents in understanding their financial obligations to the University.
Building Maintenance Tech I or II	490140 - Building Services	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Perform a variety of duties in support of services provided by Facilities Management including routine minor maintenance and upkeep of buildings.
Program Coordinator, NRTC - Part-time	053700 - NRTC-Nat'l Research Ctr Blindness	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Program Coordinator supports the implementation and tracking of specific project activities and deliverables for a large 5-year grant. Primary responsibilities include (a) managing logistics, (b) maintaining a schedule for all project deadlines, (c) assisting with the implementation of an existing project work plan, (d) copy-editing and formatting written products, and (e) collecting and compiling program evaluation and other relevant data. The major objective of the position is to ensure that all planned grant activities occur seamlessly and within the specified timelines. This is a benefits-eligible, part-time position working an estimated 60% FTE.
Assistant Professor	011300 - Animal & Dairy Science	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences is currently seeking an Assistant Professor for a 9-month tenure track (40% teaching, 60% research) position with an emphasis in applied animal behavior and well-being.
Assistant Professor	011300 - Animal & Dairy Science	Main Campus - Starkville, MS
The Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences is currently seeking an Assistant Professor for a 9-month tenure track (40% research, 60% teaching) position in Meat Science with an emphasis in applied research. The teaching and research area of interest for this position should encompass harvest, fabrication, further processing technologies and carcass evaluation.

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