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Associate Dean and Professor (INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY)
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028800 - Dean of Architecture,Art, & Design
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Associate Dean reports directly to the Dean and is responsible for providing leadership, management, and accountability for the academic and student affairs areas of the College. The main areas of responsibility include oversight of the CAAD academic affairs needs such as student requests, concerns, and petitions, as well as faculty and student needs such as mentoring, recruitment, student guidance, and support with the policies and procedures related to student and academic needs. The Associate Dean serves as the liaison between the university administration and the college, and will be responsible for providing essential support for necessary university reporting on academic outcomes, including institutional effectiveness, academic program performance reporting, student success, and other related areas. The Associate Dean also works in conjunction with the directors and department heads in the College in providing support for our faculty and students within the academic mission of the college. This will be a 50/50 job share with the applicant's home unit. |
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Associate Dean and Associate or Full Professor
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313223 - School of Health Professions
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Riley Campus - Meridian, MS
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| The School of Health Professions at Mississippi State University- Meridian seeks an Associate Dean for Accreditation and Assessment. This position assists the Dean of the School of Health Professions in all areas pertaining to advancing the college’s academic mission and strategic initiatives. The School of Health Professions currently houses undergraduate programs in healthcare administration and graduate programs in Physician Assistant Studies, Physical Therapy, and Health Services Psychology. The School is experiencing a period of significant growth and expansion, offering a dynamic and opportune time to join its leadership team.
This is a full-time, 12-month position that reports directly to the Dean of the School of Health Professions. The faculty appointment will reside in an appropriate department within the School of Health Professions.
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Assc Dean, Exe Dir, & Professor
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440317 - Ctr for Innovation in Teaching Exce
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Executive Director, Associate Dean serves as the chief administrator and strategic leader of the Center for Innovation in Teaching Excellence, a comprehensive teaching and learning support center at Mississippi State University. This person will provide visionary and strategic leadership for campus-wide initiatives related to teaching excellence, curriculum development, and instructional innovation. This position is responsible for fostering a culture that values outstanding and engaged teaching across all disciplines, ensuring that CITE initiatives are aligned with the university’s strategic goals for student success. This newly formed center integrates the Center for Teaching and Learning and the instructional design team from the Center for Distance Education to provide holistic support for teaching excellence across all modalities including face-to-face, online, hybrid, clinical, and continuing education. The Executive Director role includes championing innovation in pedagogy, educational technology, and faculty development to meet the evolving needs of modern learners. Additionally, the Associate Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies position provides leadership that supports faculty in program development, assessment, and continuous improvement / research initiatives, grant development, and scholarly productivity. This position will also hold a faculty appointment within the College of Professional and Continuing Studies. |
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Associate or Full Professor, Program Director, and Head
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313223 - School of Health Professions
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Riley Campus - Meridian, MS
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| Mississippi State University - Meridian, in partnership with the national search firm Scott Healy & Associates, invites applications and nominations for the position of Program Director & Department Head, Doctor of Physical Therapy. Mississippi State University - Meridian invites a founding leader to build a nationally distinctive Doctor of Physical Therapy program in the new School of Health Professions. With a statewide mission to expand access to care—especially in rural and underserved communities—MSU is investing in an innovative program that blends high-quality online learning, short in-person lab immersions, and community-based clinical education. The founding Program Director & Department Head will recruit the inaugural faculty, shape a modern hybrid operating model, and launch an academically rigorous, student-centered program that strengthens Mississippi’s rehabilitation workforce.
The appointment is a full-time, tenured faculty position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor within the Department of Physical Therapy. The DPT program has been approved by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning as a hybrid program to meet the needs of learners while delivering a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum. While the didactic curriculum is delivered in a hybrid/online format, the founding Program Director is expected to maintain a consistent and visible on-campus presence to support students, faculty, accreditation activities, and program operations. |
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Associate Director, Annual Giving
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441300 - MS State University Foundation
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| Plans and implements programs for Annual Giving, the Associate Director will assist the Director and Executive Director of Development in fulfilling the development-related mission of Mississippi State University. |
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Research Associate
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080300 - FWRC-Wildlife,Fisheries&Aquaculture
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture seeks a Research Associate to help deploy and maintain a network of Motus stations to support research focused on migratory bird movements, including riparian corridors. The Research Associate will coordinate and support a regional migratory bird tracking and community engagement initiative using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System. This position will oversee installation, monitoring, and maintenance of Motus tower stations across Mississippi; assist with avian capture and tagging efforts; manage data compilation and transfer; and coordinate outreach and workshop activities that promote public engagement in avian conservation. |
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Research Associate
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012800 - NE MS Branch Exp Station
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Verona, MS
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| The research program at the Northeast MS Branch Experiment Station focuses on developing sustainable/profitable management strategies for the Mississippi agronomic crops industry. This Research Associate position will support research at the station. The incumbent is expected to work closely with the research team to satisfy the goals and expectations of funded projects. Areas of emphasis are agronomy production (fertility, weed management, plant physiology), soil health (cover crops, organic amendments), and variety selection for production. |
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Senior Extension Associate
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015901 - CREC-Coastal Marine Ext Program
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Jackson County
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| This is a full-time benefits eligible position with a primary duty station at the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GNDNERR) near Moss Point, MS that is administratively associated with the MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center in support of its Coastal and Marine Extension Program (CREC-CMEP). This position reports to the MSU CMEP Director. The primary function of this position is to provide leadership and support to the GNDNERR in fulfilling its grant obligations and organizational mission. The scope of work for this position involves interpretation of multi-faceted programmatic activities with state, regional, and national impact; providing leadership and guidance to staff; developing and implementing externally-funded grant projects that address the management objectives and research priorities of the GNDNERR; formulating strategic objectives and implementation plans to accomplish the work; maintaining a research project and publication database; managing budgets and project activities and personnel; providing support for outreach activities; technical oversight of major program initiatives; coordination of the work with internal and external NERR partners; progress reporting twice a year and other duties as assigned. |
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Extension Associate
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010500 - Agricultural Economics
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Department of Agricultural Economics is seeking a full-time extension associate to support data collection, curation, and analysis related to agricultural land valuation. |
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Research Associate
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010100 - MAFES Administration
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| Under general supervision, employs a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures in a particular field of specialization to plan, coordinate, and conduct research.
Research Associates in the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station hold part-time, or full-time, non-tenure track positions to assist in the planning, coordination and/or conduct of research projects. The Research Associate, an externally-funded professional, reports to a project director. These positions are contingent on the availability of funding, generally for a specified period of time.
MAFES disciplines and departments can be found at mafes.msstate.edu. |
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Postdoctoral Associate
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031100 - Biological Sciences
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Brown Lab at Mississippi State University seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the PhyloFisher v2: Advancing Accuracy and Reproducibility in Deep Phylogenomics project funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The position focuses on evolutionary genomics, high-performance computing, and software/database development for large-scale phylogenomic workflows. Applicants should have experience with next-generation sequencing data analysis, strong written/oral communication skills, and preferably expertise in phylogenomics and Python and R programming. Essential duties include those listed below. Perform large-scale analyses including phylogenomics, comparative genomics, and differential gene expression; curate orthologs and contribute to expanding PhyloFisher v2 (~400 eukaryotic and prokaryotic markers). Develop, optimize, and maintain PhyloFisher software/database components; implement efficient pipelines on HPC systems; carry out specialized computational tasks beyond the scope of departmental staff. Integrate genomic datasets to inform species concepts for targeted microbial eukaryote groups. Mentor undergraduate and graduate students; collaborate with an international team of investigators; contribute to manuscripts, documentation, and public releases of tools and datasets. |
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Lead Staff Psychologist
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313220 - Meridian Behavioral & Mental Health
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Meridian Campus - Meridian, MS, Riley Campus - Meridian, MS
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| The Lead Staff Psychologist is located in the MSU-Meridian Mental and Behavioral Health Clinic and reports to the Associate Dean of the College of Education and Head of the Division of Education. The Lead Staff Psychologist is primarily responsible for providing high-quality clinical services-including assessment, diagnosis, and individual and group therapy to children, adolescents, and adults in the community. In addition to direct service, the Lead Staff Psychologist provides supervision for graduate students, interns, and other psychologists as part of the Clinic's role as a training site. The position also contributes to program development, quality assurance, and the integration of telehealth services to expand access to care. |
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Office Associate
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012102 - Human Sciences- Early Childhood
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Hancock County
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| The Office Associate position follows clearly detailed specific procedures in completing several clerical steps performed in a prescribed or slightly varied sequence, such as coding and filing documents in an extensive alphabetical file; could involve simple posting to individual accounts, opening mail, calculating and posting charges to departmental accounts, operating basic office equipment, computer programs. |
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Postdoctoral Associate
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191001 - Northern Gulf Institute
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Miami, FL
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| 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. |
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Senior Research Associate
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182000 - Department of Comparative Bio Scien
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences at Mississippi State University is recruiting a full-time Senior Research Associate to support human and animal research with emphasis in the area of cancer therapeutics. The successful candidate will support targeted/untargeted metabolomics’ approaches by managing two LC-MS/MS instruments located in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Prior “hands on” experience with LC-MS/MS instrumentation and utilization of appropriate software, for enabling chemical compound identification/annotation, is required. In addition, prior experience in the utilization of in vitro / ex vivo / in vivo cancer models for the development of experimental / translational cancer therapeutics, is a must. The position will be based in Starkville, Mississippi. |
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Postdoctoral Associate
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191001 - Northern Gulf Institute
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| 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. |
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Coordinator, Thrive Scholars Program
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440601 - Holmes Center for Student Success
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Coordinator for Thrive Scholars Program is responsible for serving as a resource for students by providing individualized support and coaching for students experiencing challenges, including, but not limited to, previously in foster care, emancipated minor, at risk for homelessness, who have experienced the death of a parent(s), or at risk for housing instability or food insecurity. Reporting to the Associate Director of the Holmes Center for Student Success, this individual is responsible for evaluating and coordinating gaps in support and assisting students in accessing resources that will contribute to their success. |
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Office Associate I, II, or Senior
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068800 - Dean of Engineering
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| Performs a variety of basic to complex office support and/or secretarial duties for a specified unit/department, which require a range of skills and knowledge of organizational policies and procedures. |
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Media Specialist
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185100 - CVM Office of the Dean
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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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| The Media Specialist assists with all aspects of promotional content for communications, marketing, and outreach efforts for the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The individual provides writing, videography, photography, and some graphic design content for digital and print marketing and collateral materials. The position reports to the CVM Director of Communications. |
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Extension Program Associate
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012102 - Human Sciences- Early Childhood
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North MS Area
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| Encourage and support early care and education providers, families, and children across the state and provide referrals and resources to families. |