Assistant​/Associate Professor in Agricultural Animal Field Service

Assistant/Associate Professor in Agricultural Animal Field Service

The Washington State University (WSU) Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS) in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) seeks to fill a full-time open rank (assistant professor/associate professor/professor) continuous career track faculty position in Agricultural Animal Field Service. Veterinarians with agricultural animal clinical experience are encouraged to apply – residency training is not required. The successful applicant will join a dedicated team of faculty and staff focused on multiple aspects of agricultural animal health including in-hospital and ambulatory clinical service, clinical and preclinical teaching, production/population medicine, extension, and research/scholarship.

Salary range is $145,000 - $165,000 per year.

Our Agricultural Animal Service provides in-hospital and ambulatory clinical services and operates out of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) in Pullman, Washington. Our VTH is the leading referral center in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest with over 20,000 patient visits per year, aspiring to be the country's best academic veterinary hospital for patients, students, clients, colleagues, and community.

The joint mission of the VTH and VCS is to improve the health and well-being of all animals through excellence in medical care, training future veterinarians, and finding innovative ways to diagnose and treat disease. Dedicated to this vision and mission are more than 60 full-time faculty members and 170 staff and house officers.

This position will emphasize agricultural animal ambulatory clinical service and clinical teaching, with up to 75% effort devoted to these activities. The successful candidate will provide agricultural animal clinical ambulatory service for the VTH, to a variety of livestock operations including beef (cow-calf and feedlot), dairy, small ruminant, camelids and swine. This position will involve communication with practitioners, owners and farm workers, as well as collaborative work with colleagues in the CVM, the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resources Sciences (CAHNRS), and the University of Idaho Department of Animal Sciences.

The successful candidate will be responsible for clinical instruction and supervising veterinary students and house officers in the field service setting. Teaching responsibilities may include participation in lecture courses, discussions, and case-based learning and laboratories in the DVM and house officer graduate programs. Leading experiential student learning rotations on cooperating livestock operations in the region focused on population/production medicine, will be an expectation of the position.

This is a full-time (100% FTE) permanent position. Tenure or Career track available.

This position is overtime exempt.

Annual Salary: $145,000 - $165,000 | Commensurate with qualification and experience.

In accordance with RCW 49.58.110, the above salary reflects the full salary range for this position. Individual placement within the range is based on the candidate's current experience, education, skills, and abilities related to the position.

Considerations regarding rank will be determined based on the interests and qualifications of the candidate, as will division of time between clinical duty and teaching. Applicants for associate professor must have a higher level of clinical and teaching experience as compared to assistant professor applicants. Likewise for applicants for the professor rank in comparison to candidates at the associate professor level.

WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation, optional supplemental retirement accounts; training and development; and employee tuition waiver. For additional information, please review the detailed Summary of Benefits offered by WSU for AP staff and Total Compensation.

Required Qualifications:

• The successful candidate must have a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or equivalent…