Assistant Professor; Agricultural Economic Policy

Position: Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economic Policy), #0085336
Description

Title:

Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economic Policy)

Position Number: 0085336

Hiring Unit:

College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR),Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM)

Location:

Hilo, HI

Date Posted:
October 8, 2025

Closing Date:
Continuous - application review begins December 5, 2025

Monthly Type:11 Month

Additional Salary Information:
Minimum Starting Salary $89,868; commensurate with education and experience.

Tenure Track:
Tenure

Full Time/Part Time:
Full Time

Temporary/Permanent:
Permanent

Other

Conditions:

Position Workload: 45% Instruction (25% Extension and 20% Academic), 35% Research, and 20% Service; subject to adjustment based on operational needs. First review to begin December 6, 2025 or soon thereafter. For best consideration, all application materials should be submitted by December 5, 2025, 11:59PM HST.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) invites applications for an 11-month, tenure-track faculty position in agricultural economics and policy to support equitable, sustainable, and resilient food systems, natural resources, and rural communities.

This position is critical tomeeting

CTAHR's strategic prioritiesofvibrant tropical and Pacific Island agriculture, food security, ecosystem health, and resilient and thriving communities.

Finally, this position supports the food and agricultural products self sufficiency goals of the state.

This position is designed to provide critical, state-wideagricultural economic analytical support for policies related to diversified, resilient and thriving agriculture. The successful candidate will build a research program targeted to provide timely, evidence-based insights to Hawai'ipolicy makers and industry leaders to drive impactful policy design and private sector decision making that improve agricultural sector outcomes. One key effort will be developingpartial equilibrium economic models that represent policies and markets accurately, and can be used to generate outlook reports and policy analysis.

The successful candidate will develop stakeholder-informed agile models capable of providing decision makers with timely estimates of the impacts of agriculture, trade, housing, land use, water rights, climate adaptation, biosecurity, and other policies.

Other research effortswould be informed by stakeholder needs and could focus on supply and value chain analyses(e.g., identifying new market opportunities for and bottlenecks to sustainable production and food value chains; assessing infrastructural and labor needs; identifying value-added opportunities) and the impact of new technologies.

We seek candidates with excellent agricultural economics skills who haveapplied experience in coupled agricultural-rural human-natural systems such as Hawai'i and the Pacific islandsand who have strong potential to develop an effective, integrated extension and research program in economic policy analysis to support resilient and thriving agricultural production systems and rural communities.

First-hand knowledge of relevant local and US policies and policy making process will be essential to frame the research, represent policy, and understand potential mechanisms and timelines. The successful candidate will have experience working with interdisciplinary research teams to tackle complex agricultural-economic policy questions.

Our campus welcomes all student but given our responsibilities to the community in which we operate, as part of our strategic mission, we strive to become a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, a place that is committed to integrating Native Hawaiian language, culture and/or values into its academic and campus environment.

Duties and responsibilities:

Instruction (45%) and Extension Instruction (25%):

* Provide extension leadership in agricultural economic analysis to support a resilient and thriving agricultural sector in the State of Hawai'i, and in partnership with private, non-profit, federal, state, and county agencies and stakeholders.

* Maintain an active extension program focused on identifying opportunities through new and innovative technologies to build resilient and thriving agricultural sector and rural communities; expanding local and global market opportunities; supporting public and private decision-making; and connecting stakeholders to appropriate federal and state grant and support programs.

* Develop audience-appropriate extension materials, such as training modules and decision support tools, for the adoption of new technologies for agriculture and food systems in Hawai'ii n partnership with the Agricultural Finance Agent, other agricultural economics faculty, and/or state of Hawai'i agricultural economists.

* Obtain internal and external grant funding to support this extension program.

Academic Instruction (20%):

* Teach one (1) to two (2) undergraduate…