Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor

Research field

• Others - Others

  Applied Linguistics, or English Language Teaching (in particular, those who specialize in CLIL, curriculum development, materials development, or language testing and assessment)

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics
• Humanities & Social Sciences - English linguistics
• Humanities & Social Sciences - Foreign language education

Wages

• Common to all Job Types

  Annual Salary : 10 million yen ~ 10 million yen

  Based on the rules of Rikkyo University.
  Outline: The base salary is graded based on the number of years of experience (or passed) after graduating from a university or college. For example, for a faculty member in his/her twentieth year after graduating from a university, the total annual salary is around ten million yen, including base salary, bonuses and other benefits.

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

• Description

  1) PhD in the field of Applied Linguistics/English Language Teaching, or those who have equivalent teaching and research in the relevant area;
  2) Extensive knowledge of recent language teaching theories and approaches, such as CLIL and CEFR;
  3) Expertize in English language curriculum development;
  4) Extensive experience and high management skills applicable to administering the English language program;
  5) Able to teach various types of courses through English and have sufficiently high Japanese language proficiency to perform a variety of administrative work; and
  6) Teaching and administrative experience as a full-time academic lecturer at the university level.

Employment Type

• Common to all Job Types

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Common to all Job Types

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 171-8501 Tokyo 3-34-1 Nishi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku

  Office: Center for Foreign Language Education and Research, Ikebukuro Campus Teaching: Ikebukuro Campus

• 352-8558 Saitama 1-2-26 Kitano, Niiza-shi

  Teaching: Niiza Campus

Compensation

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

Application Considerations

Number of hired

2 person(s)

• Description

  A small number of English professor or associate professors' positions

Starting date : 2025/04/01

Application period

• 2024/05/27~2024/08/05 Deadline for receipt

  All documents must arrive no later than noon on Monday, August 5, 2024.

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • Rikkyo CV_English.docx
  • Sample - Rikkyo CV_English.pdf
  • 履歴書所定様式.docx
  • 履歴書記載見本.pdf
  • Global Studies Course List.pdf

• Attached documents

  Other online application forms
  1) Rikkyo CV (Word format)
  ・Use the Rikkyo CV (no other formats will be accepted).
  ・Must include contact information (including telephone number and email address).
  ・Download the Rikkyo CV, Sample - Rikkyo CV and follow the instructions carefully to complete the CV.
  ・Complete it either in Japanese or English.
  2) ID photo (either JPEG, PNG, GIF format)
  3) 3 major research publications related to Applied Linguistics and/or English Language Education (PDF format)
  ・Preferably include a research paper published on or after January 1, 2019.
  ・At least one must be written in English.
  ・In case of no abstract, an abstract in English should be attached to the published articles/items (free format, approximately 300 words).
  4) A syllabus for a one-semester CLIL course satisfying the following conditions (PDF format):
  ・Target students: Those whose level is CEFR B1
  ・Course contents: Download the Global Studies Course List and select one CLIL course from the list
  ・Class size: approximately 20 students
  ・Lesson time & number of lessons: Rikkyo University lessons are 100 minutes, and meet once a week for 14 weeks per semester
  ・A4 size, 1 page, written in English
  5) Teaching plan of the course based on the 4) syllabus (PDF format)
  ・Select a lesson from other than the first or the last
  ・A4 size, up to 3 pages, written in English
  6) Essay in the following questions (PDF format)
  ・“How should the university's English education in the future be?” and “How can I contribute to its realization?”
  ・The essay should reflect your research and teaching experience.
  ・Write either in English (approx. 800 words) or in Japanese (approx. 1500 characters).
  7) Names and contact information of 2 referees
  ・Provide the names and contact information of two referees who can assess the candidate's educational experience and research accomplishments.
  *Letters of recommendation will be requested after passing the document screening.
  8) Certificate of your highest degree (PDF format)

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

• * Out of application period.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  After the documents screening, those who pass the screening process will be interviewed.

• Notification of result

  ・Those selected in the first screening will be contacted via email by Monday, September 2.
  ・The interview is scheduled to take place either on Wednesday, September 11 or on Friday, September 13, 2024 at the Ikebukuro Campus. In addition, applicants will be asked to give a 20-minute model lesson in English based on the submitted syllabus and teaching plan.

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