Job Information
Michigan State University(MSU) Specialist - Outreach-Continuing in East Lansing, Michigan
Position Summary
The Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), Business (BUS) Natural Science (CNS), and AgBioResearch (ABR) at Michigan State University (MSU) invite applications for a full time, 12-month, Academic Specialist-Outreach in the continuing system with a 15% teaching, 80% outreach, 5% service assignment. The position start date is anticipated to be August 1, 2024.
The global food system, sustainability, and supply chain management have each converged to critical inflection points presenting unique and complex challenges. CANR, BUS, CNS and ABR collectively can be a foundational platform for MSU to lead the needed multi-disciplinary approaches addressing the growing sustainability-related challenges faced by society. While we have a significant foundation of faculty talent and expertise to lead in this area, we lack the necessary leader and facilitator with the established connections and perspective from the private sector to help attract necessary funding and facilitate success and desired impact in research efforts and academic programs.
The successful candidate will contribute 80% of their time to outreach and work as a convener to work collaboratively with faculty leaders in the three colleges and ABR to 1) bring a unique "fluency" to amplify the value proposition to the corporate sector, commodity groups and federal and state agencies by helping translate/bridge existing and new research and data to actionable strategies for various audiences, 2) leverage their extensive external network to broaden MSU's reach and influence research directions, funding opportunities pursued and outreach strategies, 3) provide a new business-based perspective and mindset to gather external input critical to enhance and enrich curriculums to develop the next generation workforce and practitioners in response to external stakeholder needs, and 4) facilitate internal and external relationships and partnerships leaning on extensive experience managing and facilitating various multi-industry collaborations leading to new funding streams and research and educational opportunities. This novel partnership across the three colleges and ABR will enable MSU to become "the benchmark" as the omnichannel source of actionable research for business, developer of transformational collaborative models and the producer of the needed problem solvers of the future.
The successful candidate will also devote 15% of their time to undergraduate and (or) graduate teaching via contributing invited lectures on supply chain sustainability in relevant courses in CANR, BUS and (or) CNS. Future development and delivery of new coursework in supply chain sustainability is encouraged.
The successful candidate will also devote 5% of their time to service including, but not limited to 1) working closely with college advancement offices in particular engaging with the Capital Campaign, 2) working with communications teams in CANR, BUS, CNS, and ABR to facilitate internal and external communication of sustainability strategies, outcomes and impacts and facilitate translation of academic discoveries to management in corporate sector and 3) providing input to the Sustainability at MSU program.
The selected candidate will be appointed in ABR and report to the Director of ABR with close relationship and input from the Deans of CANR, BUS and CNS.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
Required Degree
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