Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor
• Assistant Professor level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Politics
• Humanities & Social Sciences - International relations

Wages

• Professor level

  Annual Salary : 7 million yen ~ 14 million yen

• Associate Professor

  Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~ 11 million yen

• Assistant Professor level

  Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~ 10 million yen

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

• Description

  Candidates who meet the following criteria will be eligible to apply:
  (1) Those who have completed a doctoral course at a university and have obtained their doctoral degree or those who have doctoral degrees at the time of being considered as a candidate for employment.
  (2) Those who are willing to follow the basic educational legacy of Sophia University that is based on Christian humanism - “Others, with Others.”
  (3) Those who can manage educational and administrative works both in English and Japanese.
  (4) Sophia University is committed to promote gender equality and welcomes applications from women.
  (5) Those who is proactive in education and research, and capable of engaging in university-required tasks such as entrance examination-related duties.

Employment Type

• Professor level

  Regular employee

• Associate Professor

  Regular employee

• Assistant Professor level

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Professor level

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period present

  Trial period 3 months.

• Associate Professor

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period present

  Trial period 3 months.

• Assistant Professor level

  Nontenured - Tenure-track

  The term of employment for an assistant professor is maximum 5 years. Promotion to the position of associate professor is possible before or at the end of the term.

  Probationary period present

  Trial period 3 months.

Work location

• 102-8554 Tokyo Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University, Kioicho 7-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, JAPAN

  (Scope of Change) The campuses determined by the Sophia School Corporation

Compensation

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  Applicants must be willing to observe the regulations of the Sophia School Corporation.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2026/04/01

Starting date : 2026/04/01

Application period

• 2025/02/28~2025/05/06 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • Call History of International Politics FGS Sophia.pdf
  • CV_FGS_Sophia.docx
  • List of Attainments_FGS_Sophia.docx
  • Applicant information sheet_FGS_Sophia.xlsx

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  Form available as an MS Word file. Submission should be made in PDF format.
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  Form available as an MS Word file. Submission should be made in PDF format.

  Other online application forms
  ・Description of career in research and education (No form will be provided, but the description must be on a letter-sized or A4-sized sheet with 25 lines and 80 letters in every line. Submission should be made in PDF format.)
  ・Summary of three major works (No form will be provided, but the description must be on a letter-sized or A4-sized sheet with 25 lines and 80 letters in every line. Submission should be made in PDF format.)
  ・Applicant information sheet (Form available as an MS Excel file. The submitted file should also be an Excel file.)
  
  In the description of career in research and education, please write about your past experiences and future plans for research in less than 800 words (2,400 letters in Japanese), and for education in less than 550 words (1,600 letters in Japanese).
  
  In the summary of your three major works, please write about each work using less than 400 words (1,200 letters in Japanese).
  
  All the application documents should be attached in the email sent to the above email address, with “Application for History of International Politics” as the subject. Please be careful NOT to set a password or any kind of security settings to prevent your files from being opened and modified, so that the Faculty office can handle the information in the files easily.
  
  We will send an email to inform you of our receiving the application. As we disclaim any kind of responsibility for delay or non-delivery of applications, please make sure not to fail to submit yours before the deadline.
  
  Email inquiries about the application process will also be accepted at the email address given below.
  

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  After screening the documents in your application, we may request you to send us some of your works or copies of them. Also, interviews and trial lessons in Japanese and English may be required.
  

• Notification of result

  The Dean of the Faculty will send you a letter or an email to notify you of the results of selection of the Faculty by the end of October, 2025 at the address you mention in your CV. Those who passed the selection of the Faculty will be required to have interviews with Chancellor and Trustee for Personnel Affairs of the Sophia School Corporation as well as with President of Sophia University.
  

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