Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor
• Assistant Professor level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics
• Others - Others

  social informatics

• Informatics - Information security

Wages

• Professor level

  Annual Salary : 8 million yen ~

• Associate Professor

  Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~

• Assistant Professor level

  Annual Salary : 4 million yen ~

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

• Description

  The applicant should meet all of the requirements below:
  (1) Have a doctoral degree.
  (2) Have an understanding of our university's education policies.
  (3) Be willing to participate in our university's priority tasks (such as quality assurance in education and globalization）.
  (4) Have a proven track record or willingness to promote international collaborative research and industry-academia research.
  (5) Be able to lecture in English.
  (6) For assistant professor applicants, have two-year experience or more as a postdoctoral researcher or in a research position.
  (7) Have an ability to contribute actively to undergraduate and graduate administration.
  (8) Have an excellent command of Japanese (N2 Level).
  (9) Do not fall under Specific Categories (*) on the date of employment and can pledge to do so.
  *Please see attached document for more information about Specific Cartegories.
  (10) Have an ability to educate in the classes related to informatiocs in Humanities and
  Social Sciences and Graduation Research in the Computer Science and Engineering Course/Computer and Communications Engineering Program.
  https://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/about/educational_foundation/recruit/info/
  

Employment Type

• Professor level

  Regular employee

• Associate Professor

  Regular employee

• Assistant Professor level

  Contract employee

Contract period

• Professor level

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  For associate professors and professors, the retirement age is 65.

  Probationary period present

  Trial period 6 months

• Associate Professor

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  For associate professors and professors, the retirement age is 65.

  Probationary period present

  Trial period 6 months

• Assistant Professor level

  Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  For assistant professors, the term is 3 years (renewed every year, and can be extended up to a maximum of five years. Those who have successfully passed the review process will be granted tenure along with promotion to associate professor)

  Probationary period present

  Trial period 6 months

Work location

• 337-8570 Saitama 307 Fukasaku, Minuma-ku, Saitama-shi,

  Nearest station: JR UtsunomiyaLine Higashiomiya station
  * You may be required to travel to a campus other than the work site once a week for classes, etc.

Compensation

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  〔Employer〕School Institution, Shibaura Institute of Technology
  
  〔Salary〕Based on our university's salary regulations
  
  〔Social insurance〕Private School Mutual Aid (PMAC) subscription, Employment insurance, Workers' accident insurance
  
  〔Semester-End Allowance (*does not apply to assistant professors)〕The equivalent of 5.6 month’s annual pay （ (base pay + Family Allowance + Housing Allowance) × 5.6）
  
  〔Allowances (principal types)〕
  Housing Allowance(Monthly pay)：14700 yen（Head of the household), 10800 yen（Non-household head）
  Family Allowance(Monthly pay)：16000yen (Spouse), 8500yen (Children under 18 years old), 10500yen (Children between the ages of 18 and 21), 5000yen (Parents)
  * See coverage of dependents under the Income Tax Law. Age is based on 4/1.
  Commuting Allowance：Commuting expenses will be provide a six-month commuting pass, capped at the price of a one-month JR commuter pass for a round trip of 100 km per leg.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Starting date : 2025/04/01

Application period

• 2024/04/30~2024/06/14 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • Summary of your achievements_distributed.pdf
  • (Example)Summary of your achievements.pdf
  • Template_List of Research Achievements.docx
  • Template_List of Educational Achievements.docx
  • Names and contact information of 2 people who can provide references about the applicant 1.docx
  • 【Full-time faculty members】Self-assessment form for specific categories.pdf
  • [Reference Material] To Applicants (Message from the President).pdf

• Attached documents

  Other online application forms
  Please upload all the following documents via the application form
  Regarding (9), please access the URL in the attached document and answer the questions.
  
  (1) Summary of your achievements （Refer to the attached example, and include all of the details shown there. Also, please attach a digital photo of your face.)
  ※This PDF form will be used to collect data. Therefore, when you enter your information and save, please keep the format just as it is. (Be sure not to change it to another PDF file format.)
  
  (2) List of research achievements （Please create the list by referring to the attached template. Be sure to match the content and number of cases written in the above "(1) Summary of your achievements".)
  
  (3) The theme and overview of your research up to now, as well as your research plan for the future (freestyle writing)
  
  (4) Up to 5 reprints of recent main papers
  
  (5) List of educational achievements (Please create the list by referring to the attached template. Be sure to match the content and number of cases written in the above "(1) Summary of your achievements".)
  
  (6) Your experience in education until now, and ambition for globalization of engineering education (freestyle, in about 500 words in English which is equivalent in 1,000 characters in Japanese)
  
  (7) One recommendation letter (written by a person who knows the applicant well, and resides in Japan) ※Please attach it as PDF file when applying.
  
  (8) Names and contact information of 2 people who will serve as referees for the applicant
  
  (9)Self-declaration Form about Specific Categories
  
  (10) Syllabus for the course “Information Technology and Information Society” (free format)

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  After screening application documents, an interview will be held. Note that we ask the applicant to cover any fees such as transportation for the interview.
  ※ Shibaura Institute of Technology promotes Gender Equality and will actively recruit female personnel if their evaluation is deemed equal in the selection process.

• Notification of result

  We will inform you by mail or email.
  Notification of result: Around 2024/09

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