Job type

• Associate Professor
• Lecturer level
• Assistant Professor level

Research field

• Environmental science - Rural environmental engineering and planning
• Environmental science - Environmental load reduction and remediation
• Environmental science - Environmental policy and social systems
• Social Infrastructure - Architectural environment and building equipment
• Social Infrastructure - Architectural planning and city planning

Wages

• Associate Professor

  Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~ 9 million yen

  Salary, allowances and benefits will be provided in accordance with Yamaguchi University regulations.
  The annual salary system will be applied.

• Lecturer level

  Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~ 8 million yen

  Salary, allowances and benefits will be provided in accordance with Yamaguchi University regulations.
  The annual salary system will be applied.

• Assistant Professor level

  Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~ 7 million yen

  Salary, allowances and benefits will be provided in accordance with Yamaguchi University regulations.
  The annual salary system will be applied.

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

• Description

  Applicants must satisfy all of the following requirements.
  1)Applicants should hold a Doctor degree that was earned within 10 years (*1) or be expected to be earned by the time of hiring.
  2)The hired applicant should apply to be selected for the "HIRAKU-Global Program Selected Teachers" recruited by the consortium of “World-Class Researcher Development Through Regional Collaboration” (hereinafter referred to as "HIRAKU-Global").
  HIRAKU-Global program overview: www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiraku-g
  3)Based on the achievement of architectural design and engineering, urban engineering, or environmental engineering, applicants are anticipated to develop a new filed called "urban/local environmental engineering for GX," extending a traditional environmental engineering for architecture.
  4)Applicants should lecture and provide research supervision to undergraduate and graduate students.
  5)Applicants should positively engage international education and research activities.
  6)Applicants should have language skills necessary for education and research and international exchange.
  7)Applicants should be able to communicate in Japanese or English.
  If the hired applicant is unable to communicate in Japanese, by the end of the appointment, he/she has to improve his/her Japanese skill enable to lecture and provide research supervision to undergraduate and graduate students.
  (*1) Applicants who took maternity and/or childcare leaves after they acquired their Doctor degrees, are exempt from such time constraints.
  
  

Employment Type

• Associate Professor

  Regular employee

• Lecturer level

  Regular employee

• Assistant Professor level

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Associate Professor

  Nontenured - Tenure-track

  Five years

  Probationary period absent

• Lecturer level

  Nontenured - Tenure-track

  Five years

  Probationary period absent

• Assistant Professor level

  Nontenured - Tenure-track

  Five years

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 755-8611 Yamaguchi 16-1 Tokiwadai 2-chome, Ube-shi

Compensation

• Various systems

  Pay increase system : available

  Bonus : available

  Retirement allowances : available

  Transportation expenses : available

  Retirement age : available

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  [Research fund]
  1) As a start-up fund, 5 million yen for the period of five years is distributed.
  The amount of distribution of each year is decided based on the intention of the tenure-track faculty member.
  2)When you will be decided to be a HIRAKU-Global program selected faculty member, the following expenses will be distributed in addition to the startup funds above.
  ･Research infrastructure expenses of 1 million yen each in the first and second years.
  ･The travel and living expenses, etc. for the joint research or research exchange at overseas institutions are 500,000 yen in the first year,1 million yen in the second year, and 500,000 yen in the third year. (the year-on-year allocation amount can be adjusted)
  
  [Evaluation of tenured position's assignment]
  Not only an intermediate evaluation in the 3rd year but also a final evaluation by 6 months prior to the end of the appointment will be made for applicant's research and educational performance. The associate professor, the lecturer or the assistant professor who passes his/her tenure reviews will receive a tenured position (associate professor or lecturer), thus being employed at Yamaguchi University until a mandatory retirement age.
  
  [Salary]
  Salary will be provided in accordance with Yamaguchi University regulations.
  The annual salary system wii be applied.
  
  [Working hours]
  Discretionary labor system
  
  [Holidays]
  Saturdays and Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year holidays (12/29 - 1/3)
  
  [Insurance]
  Mutual Aid Association (health insurance, welfare pension), employment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2025/10/01

Starting date : 2025/10/01

• Job content supplemental explanation

  [Content of job information]
  1.Number of positions available
  One Tenure-track Associate Professor, or one Tenure-track Lecturer, or One Tenure-track Assistant Professor
  2.Contract term
  Five years
  3.Affiliation
  Department of Architectural Design and Engineering, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University
  4.Areas of research
  Urban/local environmental engineering for Green Transformation (GX)
  5.Starting date
  The earliest possible date after October 1, 2025
  6.Job details
  1)Conducting research activities actively.
  2)Producing research outputs (e.g., publication in peer-reviewed journals and/or patents).
  3)Disseminating research outputs to society as well as presenting results at international conferences.
  4)Acquiring research grants and external funds actively.
  5)Giving lectures and research supervision to undergraduate and graduate students in their researches.
  6)Being involved in other duties as considered necessary by the department.
  7.Educational activities
  1)Lectures and exercises on Urban/local environmental engineering for GX
  2)Lectures and exercises on Environmental engineering for architecture
  3)Lectures and exercises on Building-equipment engineering
  4)General education
  
  
  [Work location]
  The Tokiwa campus of Yamaguchi University
  16-1 Tokiwadai 2-chome, Ube-shi, Yamaguchi
  
  

Application period

• 2025/02/03~2025/05/16 Deadline for receipt

  Deadline for receipt is 9:00 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) on May 16, 2025

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • 01公募要項（感性デザイン_都市地域環境GX）_ueban_GX（TT）.pdf
  • 【英訳】WLB支援しています！20241111.pdf

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  1)Curriculum vitae
  A curriculum vitae that presents face photo, educational background after graduating from high school, professional background, activities on academic societies, etc., and contact information directly connecting to the applicant should be submitted.
  
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  3)List of research activities
  A list of academic papers, conference proceedings, books, reviews, presentations, invited lectures, patents and awards should be submitted. In the list, the peer review papers are distinguished from others. If a paper written by the applicant as the corresponding author, the applicant's name should be shown accompanied with underline in the list of the authors. All co-authors should be presented for each paper.
  

  Other online application forms
  12.Application documents
  2)Copies of Dissertation and diploma
  Copies of Dissertation and the diploma for the Doctor degree should be submitted. However, if an applicant has not yet obtained but is expected to obtain the Doctor degree before hiring, he is allowed to submit a written document for his promising by his supervisor on this application and submit copies of Dissertation and the diploma after obtaining the Doctor degree.
  4)Major papers up to three can be included with brief summaries.
  5)Summary of past research activities should be shown on one page.
  6)A future plan of education and research activity at Yamaguchi University should be shown on one page.
  7)Two people who can refer the applicant’s achievements should be shown with their names, titles, affiliations and contact details.
  13.Application period
  Deadline for receipt is 9:00 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) on May 16, 2025
  14.Application method
  All documents should be submitted in PDF format not only to the e-mail address of submission destination but also the e-mail address of the contact person as a carbon copy. The total file size must not exceed 10 MB. Larger documents may be submitted in separate files numbered as follows: 1_3, 2_3, 3_3, etc. On the head of the e-mail title, please show [Application Documents]. The chairperson will send a confirmation of receipt to the applicant. It is strongly advisable to make sure this confirmation message arrives after submitting the application.
  16.Submission destination: Katsuhiro Miura, Chairperson
  miura-katsu@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
  17.Contact person 1: Katsuhiro Miura, Chairperson
  miura-katsu@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
  Department of Architectural Design and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University
  Contact person 2: Shinji Ikaruga, Professor
  ikaruga@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
  

• 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

  15.Selection method
  The results of the first screening will be announced by e-mail to applicants. There is a possibility that an interview will also be conducted after the first screening. Invited candidates must cover the full travel expenses to attend the presentation.

• Notification of result

  The results of the first screening will be announced by e-mail to applicants.

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