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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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Mississippi - Main Campus
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010300 - Ag & Bio Engineering
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Executive/Administrative/Managerial
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Faculty
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Regular Full-Time 12-month
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Agri. Forestry and Vet Medicine - CALS - AGR
The head is a full-time administrative position and reports to the Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS) and Director of the Mississippi Agricultural Forestry & Experiment Station (MAFES), the Director of the Mississippi State University Extension Service (MSU-ES), and the Dean of the College of Engineering. The head provides visionary leadership for all aspects of the department's current and future activities in teaching, research, Extension, and service. The head is responsible for administrative management fostering teamwork among faculty, staff and students of the department by using appropriate communication, management methods, and organizational guidelines to develop, enable, implement, and evaluate programs. The head fosters relationships and communication with other academic and center/institute heads on- and off-campus, and external stakeholders. The head is responsible for managing appropriated funds, extramural support as gifts, grants and/or contracts, allocating departmental resources, making timely decisions, delegating responsibility, and motivating faculty and staff toward accomplishment of defined teaching, research, and service objectives, as well as other scholarly activities on- and off-campus.
This position holds the William & Sherry Berry Endowed Chair.
