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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The College of Agricultural Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) seeks a candidate for the Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness. This endowed faculty chair is a non-tenure track (NTT) position in Agribusiness at the rank of Teaching Professor. The endowed faculty chair provides resources to support the chairholder’s contributions to teaching, research, public service, and academic advising. The position comes with a competitive salary based on 36 weeks of service annually, which can be supplemented with additional salary from external competitive grants, contracts, and/or endowment funds up to a total of 48 weeks annually. The position carries a 40% teaching appointment (3 courses per year) and a 60% administration appointment as the Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) in the College of Agricultural Sciences. These components could be changed with the addition of a research appointment, if appropriate.

This is a term appointment, funded for three years from date of hire.

The successful candidate will hold a faculty appointment in the College’s Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education (AESE). AESE is a welcoming community with scholarship that focuses on people, society, and economic systems. Faculty and students develop and employ rigorous approaches to discover fundamental and applied principles that advance science in their core disciplines, and that improve the health, prosperity, and welfare of people in Pennsylvania and beyond. AESE offers four graduate programs and four undergraduate programs, including an undergraduate major in Agribusiness Management. The successful candidate could also hold a joint appointment in another academic department in the College, depending on the candidate’s qualifications.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as Director of E&I in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The Director provides strategic leadership to E&I within the College, in consultation with the College administration, College E&I Advisory Board, Penn State Office of Technology Transfer, Invent Penn State, Penn State Office of Entrepreneurship and Commercialization, and the Penn State Corporate Engagement Center.

• Support the College’s leadership team (deans and department heads) in engagement with agribusinesses. Among other things, this will include regular interaction with the College Corporate Relations Office and the Ag Council (the external advisory committee to the Dean).

• Provide support and advice to new and emerging College industry engagement and research translation initiatives such as the FAO World Food Forum Youth Food Lab at Penn State.

• Guide College faculty through the process of p