Assistant/Associate Professor (Consumer Horticulture Specialist)

Assistant/Associate Professor (Consumer Horticulture Specialist) tenure-track position in the School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA. The position responsibilities are 75% extension, 15% teaching, and 10% research. The successful candidate will develop a nationally recognized extension, teaching, and research program in horticulture.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in horticulture or a closely related discipline
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Experience in media interviews or segments, popular press and magazine articles, and generation of extramural funding (desirable)

Benefits

• retirement
• multiple medical insurance options
• supplemental insurances (dental, life, long-term disability, accident, vision, long-term care)
• Tax Saver Flexible Benefits Plan
• university holidays
• generous annual (vacation) and sick leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• possible educational leave and tuition exemption for coursework at campuses of the LSU System