Detailed information

Ended
Date of update : 2025/03/10 End date of accepting applications : 2025/05/16
Ended
Date of update : 2025/03/10
End date of accepting applications : 2025/05/16

Work location : Hokkaido district - Hokkaido

Date of publication : 2025/03/10

Associate Professor(management engineering)

D125030618

National university

Kitami Institute of Technology

Research field : Others - Others - management engineering

Associate Professor : Regular employee - Nontenured - Non-tenure track - Probationary period present

Job description

  • Background of the recruitment and description of the project

    Kitami Institute of Technology (KIT) is the northernmost national university in Japan and is located in Kitami City, the core city of industry and culture in the Okhotsk area in eastern Hokkaido. It is surrounded by a beautiful natural environment with four national parks including Shiretoko, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
    With its vision “to nurture people, develop technology, contribute to the community, and work toward a better future” under the philosophy of “Developing technology that harmonizes with nature”, KIT’s mission, in a time of rapid progress of science and technology becoming more and more advanced and complicated, is not only to provide basic skills and knowledge on specialized fields, but to train the ability to be able to deal flexibly with interdisciplinary fields and newly developed areas.

  • Work content and job description

    (1)Teaching: Subjects related on data Science for undergraduate and graduate Students
    (2)Research: Topics on utilizing artificial intelligence and data science to solve regional challenges related to primary industries, disaster prevention, energy, etc.
    Additionally, practical experience in companies or other organizations is required.

  • Assigned department

    Existing departments

    Division of Regional and International Education

Job type

  • Associate Professor

Research field

  • Others - Others

    management engineering

Wages

  • Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~ 7 million yen

    Annual salary system

Working hours

  • Working hours :08:30-17:15

    Break time :12:00-13:00

    Holidays : 2 days off per week

    Overtime and other explanations : Discretionary labor system(The working hours for a day is deemed as 7 hours and 45 minutes.)

Application requirements

Qualifications

  • Education and Degree Requirements

    Ph.D. / Doctor

    An earned doctorate or Ph.D. degree is required at the point of appointed.

  • Official qualification in specific field, etc.

    Non-native speakers of Japanese expected to have Japanese reading, writing, listening and speaking abilities enough to perform administrative tasks and supervise students in a Japanese language environment.

Employment Type

  • Regular employee

    Full-time

Contract period

  • Nontenured - Non-tenure track

    The initial contract period is five years. An interim assessment will be held during the initial contract period, and the applicant will be examined whether to go on to the tenured position with promotion opportunities.

    Probationary period present

    Trial period 6 month

Work location

  • 090-8507 Hokkaido Kitami 165 Koen-Cho

Compensation

  • Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace

    Smoking in designated areas only

Application Considerations

Number of hired

    1 person(s)

    Hiring date : 2025/10/01

    Starting date : 2025/10/01

  • Job content supplemental explanation

    Starting date: October 1, 2025 or later (a mutually agreed upon date)

Application period

  • 2025/03/10~2025/05/16 Deadline for receipt

Application method

  • Application documents (specified forms)

    • Associate Professor(management engineering).pdf

  • Attached documents

    Application Form : Online Submission , Mailing
    (1) A prescribed CV having the following items: personal information, a recent passport-size photo, educational records starting from high school, degree/licenses received, job experience records, academic and social activities (including academic society memberships)
    (2) List of publications (in the order of refereed journal papers with impact factor (IF), reference papers (international conference proceedings, commentary, reviews, etc.), books, patents, oral presentations, and others). The refereed journal papers whose corresponding authors are the applicant should be marked.
    (3) Copies of all major published refereed journal papers (up to five).
    (4) List of grants awarded
    (5) A brief summary of research achievements and educational experiences. If you have any practical achievements in data science, please also include a summary of those achievements.
    (6) Ambition for future research, education, and regional contribution making full use of applicants’ specialty
    (7) Contact information of two references (name, institution, phone number, e-mail address)
    Achievements and Activities : Online Submission , Mailing

  • Return of application documents

    Others

    The submitted document will not be returned to the applicant.

  • Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

    090-8507 Hokkaido Kitami 165 Koen-Cho
    Professor Fumiko Uchijima

    Precautions : Postal or email Application is acceptable.
    In postal application, the registered post must be used with the words, “Associate Professor Application Enclosed”, in red on the application envelope.
    In email application, an electronic file (PDF, etc.) must be attached. Please combine all the documents into one electronic file (PDF, etc.), set a password, and put “Associate Professor” in the subject of the email.

  • * Out of application period.

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Selection / Notification of result

  • Selection

    (1) First screening based on submitted documents.
    (2) Second and final screening based on the interview with the respective candidates who passed the first screening.
    * Note: Interviews will be conducted at Kitami Institute of Technology or online. The applicant is responsible for any travel expenditures incurred due to the interview.

  • Notification of result

    e-mail

Contact details

Kitami Institute of Technology

Division of Regional and International Education

Professor Fumiko Uchijima

0157269405

ucchi_f(at)mail.kitami-it.ac.jp

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Notes

(1) The institute selects faculty members in the spirit of the Basic Law on Gender Equality.
(2) For promoting gender equality and recruitment of foreign faculty members, the evaluation system of the institute takes into consideration the special circumstances of the life events of females, and a period until the foreign faculty members adapt to Japan society.
(3) Please download the CV and the list of publications templates from the following site: https://www.kitami-it.ac.jp/about/saiyou/

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