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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR, FORAGE IMPROVEMENT DIVISION
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation invites applications for the position of Senior Vice President and Director of the Forage Improvement Division (FID).
The position of Division Director serves as a senior member of the Noble Foundation’s management team and reports directly to the president. The FID Director provides strategic vision and leadership for the continued growth and impact of the division on a national and international scale. The FID Director is expected to maintain a personal research program. Candidates must be accomplished scientists and have administrative experience with a keen understanding of how to effectively manage a research team.
While FID targets the development of improved forage cultivars for the southern Great Plains, including their use as bioenergy feedstocks, the division and its scientific programs advance the science of plant improvement on a broader scale. The operational focus of the division promotes program interaction in a team setting among accomplished scientists, who conduct translational research in the areas of breeding and genetics of grasses and legumes, the application of genomic technologies, tissue culture/transformation, forage agronomy, and molecular mycology of fungal endophytes and pathogens. During this cultivar development process, the division also conducts basic and applied research, including studies concerning the application of biotechnologies, and publishes in reputable scientific journals.
To advance divisional as well as institutional research programs, the FID interacts with the Noble Foundation’s Plant Biology Division by integrating basic biochemical, genetic and genomic research findings into the production of novel crops. FID also benefits from the opportunity to move small-plot research to large-scale forage systems research in cooperation with the Noble Foundation’s Agricultural Division and its 12,400 acres of field research and demonstration farmland strategically located throughout southern Oklahoma. Additionally, the FID, through the Agricultural Division’s 1,500 farm and ranch cooperators, has potential to access over two million acres in southern Oklahoma and north Texas for on-farm research and demonstration projects. In addition, the FID has existing national and international research collaborations with industry, academia and government agencies.
Preferred candidate qualifications include: 1) Ph.D. and a distinguished record of scholarship with a strong research publication record in a discipline related to the crop improvement process; 2) visionary leadership in crop improvement capable of building upon the Forage Improvement Division’s current vibrant intra- and inter-organizational collaborations; 3) demonstrated administrative and managerial experience; 4) superior interpersonal and communication skills.
Interested applicants are encouraged to learn more about the Noble Foundation’s extensive agricultural research commitment via the Web site www.noble.org. Qualified applicants may apply through the internet at www.noble.org/Jobs or by submitting a letter of interest describing the applicant’s qualifications, potential interest in the position and a description of relevant experience and accomplishments, together with a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of four references (references will not be contacted without the candidate’s permission) to:
Dr. Richard A. Dixon, Search Committee Chair
radixon@noble.org
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.
Human Resources Department
Position Number: FB-S022-140
P.O. Box 2180
Ardmore, OK 73402
Website: http://www.noble.org/
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment, regardless of their race, color, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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