Job type

• Associate Professor
• Assistant Professor level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Unspecified

Wages

• Common to all Job Types

  Annual Salary : 4 million yen ~ 6 million yen

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Others

  Applicant should preferably meet all of the following requirements:
  ①Applicant has a doctorate (including Ph.D.) in the relevant field as of the time of employment or has equivalent research achievements.
  ②Applicant can actively prepare Course Materials and conduct classes for the global human resource development curriculum using ICT.
  ③Applicant has experience practicing and preparing Course Materials for project based learning (PBL) or active learning for class, or can actively do so.
  ④Applicant has sufficient educational experience at universities in and/or outside of Japan.
  ⑤Applicant has English proficiency for giving a class in English. Applicant should also have Japanese proficiency that enables him/her to support students in Japanese as necessary during class.

Employment Type

• Common to all Job Types

  Regular employee

  Full-time

Contract period

• Common to all Job Types

  Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  One-year term. Renewable up to two terms.

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 564-8680 Osaka 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi

Compensation

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  ① Salary and work conditions, etc.
  As specified in the university rules.
  ② Insurance, etc.
  Coverage of faculty & staff mutual aid for private schools (health insurance and welfare pension program), employment insurance, and industrial accident compensation insurance.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2025/04/01

Starting date : 2025/04/01

• Job content supplemental explanation

  [Job description]
  Successful applicant will perform the following six duties:
  ①Planning and operating extracurricular learning activities provided in English at Mi-Room (Multilingual Immersion Room)*1 (Planning and operation based on Japanese)
  ②Teaching courses offered in English (English training courses *2)
  ③Developing and managing summer/winter holiday reception programs for students arriving from abroad
  ④Developing and managing global educational programs
  ⑤Developing and being in charge of international programs at Kansai University (training in Japan and overseas dispatch)
  ⑥Other operations conducive to the promotion of internationalization*3
  
  *1: Mi-Room website
  https://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/Kokusai/globalnavi/mi-room/
  *2: “Course titles: Foundation for Academic English / TOEFL Score Up Training / KUGF Independent Study (English Skills Development)" and other classes in common liberal arts level (plan)
  *3: Successful applicant will be required to contribute considerably to operations related to international education aside from the above.
  
  [Workplace]
  ① Senriyama Campus
  ② Possible temporary work at satellite campuses (Sakai Campus, Takatsuki Campus, Takatsuki Muse Campus, etc.) when necessary.
  
  [Number of people to be recruited]
  One person
  
  [Scheduled date of employment]
  April 1, 2025

Application period

• 2024/06/24~2024/08/22 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • 01_curriculum_vitae.docx
  • 02_curriculum vitae_with Japanese translation.docx

• Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

  564-8680 Osaka 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi

• * Out of application period.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  document screening and interview

• Notification of result

  1. Documents required
  Convert the following five application documents into PDF format and combine them into a single zip file. Send your submission from “Web Application” on the JREC-IN Portal.
  ①Resume (form attached)
  ②Research achievements (form attached)
  ③ Description of your interests in international educational activities based on collaboration with overseas universities (not limited to student mobility) and your goals for engaging in education (Max. Two A4 sheets, any format, to be submitted in Japanese or English)
  ④ Three major educational and/or research achievements (publications, research papers, translated works, journal articles, textbooks, etc.)
  ⑤ Proof of any awards such as academic awards in your research area (if you have any)
  * Any personal information that you submit will only be used for considering your application to the teaching position and will be properly handled according to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information.
  
  (Precautions)
  - In your resume or research achievements, provide either your name and seal or your handwritten signature (no seal required) in the Name field before converting it into PDF format.
  - If any of your major achievements is a booklet or otherwise difficult to convert to PDF format, send three copies of such documentation. In principle, submitted achievements are not returned.
  [Send to] 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-8680
  International Education Support Team, International Education Office, International Affairs Bureau, Kansai University
  * On the front side of the envelope, please write in red [Application documents for Specially Appointed Faculty Members (Mi-Room) included] before sending your documents.
  
  2.Deadline of submission
  Documents must arrive by Thursday, August 22, 2024 17:00 (JST)
  
  3.Inquiries
  International Education Support Team, International Education Office, International Affairs Bureau, Kansai University
  E-mail: kugf@ml.kandai.jp
  * When making an inquiry, your subject should be: “(Inquiry) Application for Specially Appointed Faculty Member for the Division for Promotion of Educational Development.”
  
  4.Other
  ①Note that your application documents will not be returned.
  ②After reviewing your documents, we will send out the first screening result on Thursday, August 29, 2024.
  ③Applicants proceeding to the second screening will be asked to submit all achievements (all publications excluding verbal presentations) and a certificate of completion of highest education (copy of diploma is also acceptable).
  ④Submission of other documents may be required during the screening process.
  ⑤Applicants proceeding to the second screening will be invited for an interview, including giving a trial lesson, on Saturday, September 7, 2024. (online or face-to-face)
  ⑥Finalists will be asked to submit an official document certifying their educational background (certificate of completion of graduate school, master’s or doctorate diploma).
  ⑦We are committed to promoting gender equality, and we welcome applications from individuals of all genders and nationalities.
  

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