Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Sociology
• Humanities & Social Sciences - Social welfare
• Social Infrastructure - Architectural planning and city planning

Wages

• Common to all Job Types

  Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~ 13 million yen

  The salary will be paid in accordance with the university regulations.
  Associate Professor (non-tenured): 6 million to 9.6 million yen
  Professor or Associate Professor (non-tenured): 7.8 million to 12.6 million yen

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

  A doctoral degree awarded by the time of the commencement of employment. (or an equivalent qualification can be considered)

• Work experience

  All the following requirements must be fulfilled:
  ・Experience and qualifications that indicate the potential to produce excellent educational and research results and ensure smooth operation of the Special Program for Disaster Prevention and Reconstruction throughout the implementation period of the program
  A strong passion for education, research, and regional disaster prevention and reconstruction support
  ・Proficiency in Japanese sufficient to lecture, hold seminars, attend meeting and community activities
  ・Residency in Kanazawa or surrounding cities after employment

Employment Type

• Common to all Job Types

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Common to all Job Types

  Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  *Term of office: 5 years in principle (renewed each fiscal year, up to the age of 65 at the end of the fiscal year).
  Taking into account the budgetary situation, an internal review will be conducted at a prescribed time regarding the operation, education, and research performance. After the review, employment may be renewed for a period not exceeding 10 years from the initial employment start date.

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 920-1192 Ishikawa Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa City

Compensation

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2025/04/01

Starting date : 2025/04/01

Application period

• 2024/11/12~2025/01/14 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • 【Final】(Checked)地創_Announcement of Full-Time Faculty Position.pdf

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  (1) Curriculum vitae with a recent photograph, describing present address, phone number, email address, academic career (including the title of doctoral dissertation), research career, professional career and others.
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  (2) List of research achievement, including books, book chapters, original articles, other publications, presentations at scientific meetings, awards and others. In the case of articles, it should be indicated that it was refereed or not. The names of co-authors should be listed in the order they appear in each paper.

  Other online application forms
  The following documents, in an A4 or letter size, need to be submmited besides your curriculum vitae and list of research achievement.
  (3) Reprints of up to three major articles (copies are acceptable) Please attach a Japanese summary of 400 letters (approximately 300 words in English) for each article.
  (4) List of research grants (name of grant as Scientific research subsidy, Government Grant Project, Joint research with the nation, region, businesses, etc., and the project year (ex. 2017-19), research title, representative, amount of money, etc.)
  (5) Teaching plan: Syllabuses in Japanese and English of "Disaster Prevention and Reconstruction", "Disaster Management" (each class has 16 weeks, with introduction in week1 and final exam in week 16)
  (6) List of your classes in last three years, and the syllabus (or syllabi) of your main teaching subject(s).
  (7) If there are any reports or recommendations summarizing the results of past involvement in large-scale disaster response, etc., the originals and summaries
  (8) Awards and invited lectures, other notable achievements, and details of competitive research funding
  (9) Information about one reference person (including name, affiliation, e-mail address, phone number and relat
  
  The application documents should be submitted online (JREC-IN Portal Web) or by mail.
  (1) Web Application
  Convert all documents into PDF files, zip them together, and submit them via the online application on the JREC-IN Portal (for document (3) to be submitted, a PDF copy of the actual document or a PDF of a proofread manuscript prepared by a publisher is acceptable).
  For individual books, the actual item may also be sent by mail separately.
  (2) E-mail
  The documents should be sent by registered mail/courier marked with “Application to Faculty Position (Disaster Prevention and Reconstruction, Disaster Management)” on the envelope to:
  Chief NAGATA Yumiko
  Secretariat, Kanazawa University,
  Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-1192, Japan

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

  Applications who wish to have their documents returned must enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

• Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

  920-1192 Ishikawa Kakuma-machi，Kanazawa City
  Chief NAGATA Yumiko Secretariat, Kanazawa University

• * Out of application period.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  The selection will be based on the submitted documents. After the initial screening, short-listed candidates may be called for an interview and be asked to give a teaching demonstration.
  Travel costs (including overseas travel) for the interview will not be covered.

• Notification of result

  After the first screening, we will contact those who need to be interviewed.
  After the second screening is completed, all applicants will be notified of the results in writing or by email.

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