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Job of The Week: Office Assistant IV

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This week’s featured job is an Office Assistant IV for the Department of Economics in the College of Social Science (job posting 1114936). If you are interested in providing accounting, operational, and administrative support for a large, high-volume academic department, this may be the role for you. 

The MSU Department of Economics consists of three interrelated components: providing the highest quality instruction to students, conducting leading-edge research in economics, and providing service and leadership to professional communities.

In this position, you will support the Department of Economics Fiscal Officer, which includes supporting travel, reimbursements, vouchers, budget tracking, and financial compliance. Additionally, you will perform necessary operational and administrative functions required to support faculty, staff, and instructional activities. This includes scheduling rooms and coordinating logistics for seminars, conferences, and special events, maintaining departmental records, coordinating exam materials, and preparing financial records. Find a complete list of responsibilities in the job posting. 

This position requires knowledge equivalent from the first two to three years of college or technical school, and one to three years experience working in maintaining account ledgers, departmental operations, employment or related tasks. You should have experience in word processing, maintaining spreadsheets, and editing and composing correspondence. Find a complete list of required and desired qualifications in the job postings. 

Learn more about the Department of Economics. To learn more or apply for this position, please visit the MSU Careers website. Applications require a cover letter, CV/resume, and three professional references, and should be submitted by March 10.

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Job of The Week: Research Technologist II

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This week, we are featuring a job posting as a Research Technologist II for the College of Social Science  (job posting 1037763). If you are interested in assisting in a wet lab and animal experiments conducted in the Veenema laboratory, this may be the role for you.

The Veenema Lab, working in MSU’s Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology, explores the neural basis of social behavior. The Veenema lab’s research uses rats and mice as model organisms to understand the roles of neuropeptides, vasopressin and oxytocin in regulating social behavior such as social play, recognition, and investigation. The Veenema lab’s goal is to identify more effective treatment of social behavior deficits.   

In this position, you will primarily assist in wet lab and animal experiments conducted by other lab members. Additionally, you will analyze data including behavioral videos, digitized microscope or lightbox images, research literature to maintain knowledge of the current field, and attend scheduled lab meetings and lab journal club meetings. 

This role requires a degree in neuroscience or a related field, six months to one year of related or more extensive work experience performing basic research techniques, including laboratory animal handling and husbandry, behavioral testing in rodents, and wet lab techniques. You should be well-versed in database and desktop publishing software, and have experience handling potentially dangerous research animals. Find a complete list of required and desired qualifications here.

Learn more about the Veenema Lab and the College of Social Science. To learn more or apply, please visit the MSU Careers website. Applications require a resume, cover letter, at least one letter of recommendation, and should be submitted by June 3.

Job of the Week – Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Clinic

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This week’s job of the week is a Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Clinic (#644406) for MSU’s College of Social Science, specifically for the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. This position is seeking an individual with effective communication skills to oversee the day-to-day operations of the clinic.

The responsibilities for this role include overseeing business systems, supervising clinic staff, and providing support to the couple and family therapy program by teaching courses and helping with program reaccreditation. Additional responsibilities for this role include recruiting and supervising undergraduate interns, developing and maintaining a clinic database, and the purchasing of supplies and equipment.

The ideal candidate would possess knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a master’s degree in Couple/Marriage and Family Therapy, Family Psychology, or a closely related clinical area; see job posting for a complete list of desired qualifications.

For more details on the responsibilities of this position, and to view all our current postings, visit careers.msu.edu. Internal applicants should access postings through the Careers @ MSU tile in the EBS Portal.