Employment Opportunities

Provides high-level executive administrative support to the Dean of a complex academic college and coordinates the administrative functions of the Dean’s Office. Serves as the central point of contact for the Dean, managing a dynamic and highly visible schedule that includes executive meetings, faculty, staff, student engagements, and external stakeholders. Coordinates all aspects of meeting logistics, including agenda development support, preparation and distribution of materials, room reservations, technology and audiovisual arrangements, and tracking of follow-up actions.

To administer anesthetics to render patients insensitive to pain during surgical and other medical procedures, supervise/teach students in the practice of anesthesia, maintain equipment and keep related records.

The function of the Animal Health Technician is to perform a variety of duties involved in providing technical support to the Nancy Fair Link Laminitis Research Center. This position provides instruction to graduate students and supervision to student workers.

The Mississippi State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, has an immediate opening for a non-tenure track faculty position in Small Animal Surgery. This position is also cross-posted as a tenure-track position on PARF 510164.

Teaching responsibilities involve teaching and clinical training of professional students, interns, residents and graduate students. Service responsibilities involve clinical case management, rotating emergency duty, and consultation with private practitioners. Clinical duties in the Small Animal Internal Medicine service will be shared with four other faculty members. The service currently has three residents enrolled in an ACVIM-approved three-year combined residency and thesis-driven master's program. Participation in the college's continuing education and clinical research program is strongly encouraged, as is the development of a specific area of clinical and research focus and expertise. External grant acquisition and supervision of postgraduate degree students is encouraged and supported, and initial funding is available to support the development of research initiatives.

The College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University is seeking to hire an Assistant, Associate, or Clinical Professor of Veterinary Neurology.

The College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, invites applications for an assistant/associate/full clinical professor in aquatic diagnostics and research. This position is located at the Aquatic Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (ARDL), housed at the Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center in Stoneville, Mississippi. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in the field of aquatic animal medicine and aquaculture production. Situated in the heart of the Mississippi catfish industry, the ARDL plays a pivotal role in providing essential veterinary services, including diagnostics, preventive medicine, and disease management for catfish and other aquaculture producers in Mississippi and surrounding states.

The College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University invites applications for a clinical track faculty position in Farm Animal Internal Medicine and Surgery at the rank of Assistant Clinical Professor, Associate Clinical Professor, or Full Clinical Professor. This position is designed to support the college’s mission in clinical service, teaching, outreach, and advancement of food animal medicine and surgery.

The College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, invites applications for a non-tenure (clinical) track assistant/associate/full professor position in veterinary diagnostic microbiology. The position is in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine and the Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DLS), which is part of the Mississippi Veterinary Research and Diagnostic Laboratory System.

The Mississippi State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, has an immediate opening for a tenure-track faculty position in Small Animal Surgery. This position is also cross-posted as a clinical track position on PARF 510171.

The Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine has an immediate opening for a tenure track faculty position in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Teaching responsibilities involve didactic teaching and clinical training of professional students, interns, residents, and graduate students. Service responsibilities involve clinical case management, rotating emergency duty, and consultation with private practitioners. Clinical duties in the Small Animal Medicine service will be shared with four other faculty members. The service currently has three residents enrolled in an ACVIM-approved three-year combined residency and thesis-driven master’s program. Participation in the college’s continuing education and clinical research program is strongly encouraged, as is the development of a specific area of clinical and research focus and expertise. External grant acquisition and supervision of postgraduate degree students is encouraged and supported, and initial funding is available to support the development of research initiatives.

The College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University is seeking to hire an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Veterinary Neurology. The workload for this position will include time allocated for teaching, clinical service, research/scholarly activity and other service duties. The assignment will be 0.50 clinical services/teaching, 0.25-0.35 scholarly/research and 0.15-0.25 other service duties and didactic teaching in the veterinary, graduate and veterinary technology curricula. Development of an independent research program is also expected.

The Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine has an immediate opening for a tenure track faculty position in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Teaching responsibilities involve didactic teaching and clinical training of professional students, interns, residents, and graduate students. Service responsibilities involve clinical case management, rotating emergency duty, and consultation with private practitioners. Clinical duties in the Small Animal Medicine service will be shared with four other faculty members. The service currently has three residents enrolled in an ACVIM-approved three-year combined residency and thesis-driven master’s program. Participation in the college’s continuing education and clinical research program is strongly encouraged, as is the development of a specific area of clinical and research focus and expertise. External grant acquisition and supervision of postgraduate degree students is encouraged and supported, and initial funding is available to support the development of research initiatives.

The Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine has an immediate opening for a tenure track faculty position in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Teaching responsibilities involve didactic teaching and clinical training of professional students, interns, residents, and graduate students. Service responsibilities involve clinical case management, rotating emergency duty, and consultation with private practitioners. Clinical duties in the Small Animal Medicine service will be shared with four other faculty members. The service currently has three residents enrolled in an ACVIM-approved three-year combined residency and thesis-driven master’s program. Participation in the college’s continuing education and clinical research program is strongly encouraged, as is the development of a specific area of clinical and research focus and expertise. External grant acquisition and supervision of postgraduate degree students is encouraged and supported, and initial funding is available to support the development of research initiatives.

The Part Time Clinical Admissions Assistant position is the “face” and first line of communication with Clients and Referring veterinarians both in-person and by telephone. The clinical admissions assistant coordinates patient referrals, schedules appointments, manages hospital communications, completes patient admissions and provides excellent client services to the over 10,000 patients seen by the Animal Emergency & Referral Center each year.

This position provides consultation and referral services for the Animal Health Center.

This position manages and provides support for pre and/or post-award activities within a department for extramural projects including proposal development assistance, accounting reconciliations and forecasts, contract and grant management. Rankings and qualifications within levels (I, II, III, Senior) are based on education and experience.

Searching for someone to coordinate and supervise the work of subordinate custodial employees.

This position would provide veterinary, including emergency care, to equine patients admitted to Animal Health Center.

This internship at Mississippi State University is a 12-month clinical program. The intern will rotate between the surgery & medicine (food animal) and theriogenology (all species) services in house, and also the ambulatory service (large animal, including equine), with approximately equal time spent on each service. The internship provides training in clinical, hospital based service through interaction with clinical specialists (DACVIM, DABVP (Food Animal), DACT, MPH). The program is designed to prepare the individual for a residency in a corresponding discipline or entry into private practice. The program is directly supported by 2 diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2 diplomates of the American College of Theriogenologists, 1 diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Food Animal), 2 clinical faculty professors, 2 clinical instructors, and 4 support staff. The food animal in house clinic annual case load is 1,200-1,500 cases/year (beef 60%, dairy 30%, small ruminants 10%), and ambulatory makes 1000 trips/year (40% equine, 40% beef cow/calf and 20% dairy/small ruminants).

Responsible for performing mammalian serology, virology, and chronic wasting disease testing. This position collaborates with internal lab personnel as part of a team.

Perform tests on mammalian and poultry samples pertaining to Avian Serology, AGID and Avian Virology to obtain data for monitoring programs and accurate diagnosis and treatment of disease.

The Veterinary Laboratory Technologist in Molecular Diagnostics performs routine and high-throughput molecular diagnostic testing to support the detection and characterization of animal pathogens. The position focuses on PCR-based assays and related molecular techniques, ensuring accurate, timely, and quality-compliant results to support veterinary diagnostic services.

Provide support to veterinary pathologists, residents, and students during post mortem examinations. Duties include active participation in necropsy procedures for a wide range of animal species (mammalian, avian, reptile, etc.) and maintaining necropsy laboratory facilities and equipment in a clean, organized, and ready to use condition. This position requires regular communication and coordination with pathology faculty, other necropsy staff, sample receiving staff, case submitters, and other laboratory personnel.

The College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, invites applications for a resident position in veterinary clinical pathology. The position is in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine and the Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DLS), which is part of the Mississippi Veterinary Research and Diagnostic Laboratory System. This position will be a 3-year residency training program that will begin on July 16, 2026.

The Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences at Mississippi State University is recruiting a full-time Senior Research Associate to support human and animal research with emphasis in the area of cancer therapeutics. The successful candidate will support targeted/untargeted metabolomics’ approaches by managing two LC-MS/MS instruments located in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Prior “hands on” experience with LC-MS/MS instrumentation and utilization of appropriate software, for enabling chemical compound identification/annotation, is required. In addition, prior experience in the utilization of in vitro / ex vivo / in vivo cancer models for the development of experimental / translational cancer therapeutics, is a must. The position will be based in Starkville, Mississippi.

To assist the veterinary care team in the provision of animal care and treatment for a wide range of animals used in research, teaching, and/or client-owned animals.

This position will support IMED doctors, students, house officers and technicians in the provision of providing efficient, personal, and thorough care of patients and clients.