Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is creating an environment that affirms community across all dimensions. This is a 9-month tenure-accruing position that will be 60% teaching (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences) and 40% research (Florida Agricultural Experiment Station) available in the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Florida.

Duties will include teaching courses in agricultural and applied economics that span the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The candidate is expected to develop a nationally recognized research program on economic issues important to the food and agricultural industry, particularly international trade, agricultural policy, or related issues. The faculty member will seek contract and grant funding actively to support their program.

The faculty member will engage in Extension activities in their program area.

The successful candidate will engage in scholarly activities related to instruction, including teaching undergraduate and/or graduate courses, advising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, participating in curriculum revision and enhancement, seeking funding for the teaching program, supervising undergraduate and graduate research and creative work, publishing teaching-related scholarship, producing learning tools, and engaging in professional development activities related to teaching and advising.

Faculty are encouraged to support and participate in the CALS Honors Program, distance education, and international education.

Because of the IFAS land-grant mission, all faculty are expected to be supportive of and engaged in all three mission areas—Research, Teaching and Extension—regardless of the assignment split specified in the position description.

Required Qualifications:

A doctorate (foreign equivalent acceptable) in agricultural and/or applied economics, economics, or a closely related discipline is required. Candidates should have demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication, interpersonal relationships, and procurement of extramural funding. Candidates must be supportive of the mission of the Land-Grant system. Candidates must also have a commitment to UF core values.

Preferred:
Some proficiency with, or interest in, modern data-science methods such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.