POSITION LOCATION: Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University
POSITION DESCRIPTION: The position is the CHS Chair in Risk Management and Trading.
This is a faculty position in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, and the successful candidate will also serve as the Director of the Center for Trading and Risk. The successful candidate would be tenured and hired at either the Associate or Full Professor rank, depending upon qualifications. The position is for a 9-month academic year, and the split is 70% research and 30% teaching.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The successful candidate will be expected to develop leadership in the department's research and teaching programs in agribusiness with an emphasis on commodity trading, agricultural markets, and risk. Focus areas may include logistics, commodity derivatives including futures and options, and agricultural technology. Teaching responsibility would depend on the needs of the department and the Center. The candidate would be expected to teach two courses in commodity marketing, or related courses, with an emphasis on risk.
Faculty evaluations are based on successful publications in leading disciplinary journals, active participation in professional activities, effective teaching and advising at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, satisfactory service and outreach activities to the profession, state, university, and department, and successful pursuit of extramural funding sufficient to support an active research program.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum requirements include:
1. earned Ph.D. in agricultural economics, or related disciplines;
2. experience in teaching and research in Agribusiness or Commodity Trading and Risk;
3. expertise in agribusiness risk and quantitative methods;
4. effective oral and written communication skills;
5. demonstrated ability to conduct research and disseminate results in leading academic journals.
Preferred qualifications include:
1. evidence of teaching effectiveness;
2. ability to supervise MS and Ph.D. students;
3. ability to obtain extramural funding to support research activities;
4. ability to communicate research results to clientele groups;
5. demonstrated consistent and excellent contributions to research and publication, and scholarship; and
6. a record of externally funded research in agricultural economics, agribusiness, finance and/or risk analysis.
SALARY: The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package
POSITION AVAILABLE: To be filled by August 15, 2025, when the successful candidate would be in residence.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Screening of applicants will begin in June 3, 2025 and continue until a suitable candidate is hired.