Professional Aide Project Pay

This is a project pay position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions.

We are seeking a motivated researcher to contribute to an innovative interdisciplinary project examining the relationships between producer wellbeing, grazing management, and resilience in cow-calf production systems. The successful candidate will work across quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods to investigate how subjective wellbeing influences grazing management decisions and how management practices, in turn, shape wellbeing outcomes. The project combines analysis of longitudinal wellbeing data, thematic qualitative research, participatory systems mapping using fuzzy cognitive maps, and agent-based modeling of social-ecological systems. 

• Required Degree: PhD
• Mixed methods researcher
• Research experience in US cow-calf systems
• Published research on subjective social wellbeing

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

• Letter of interest
• Current CV

ON-CALL

https://www.canr.msu.edu/csus/

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.

Advertised: Sep 29, 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: Oct 1, 2026 Eastern Daylight Time

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