Job type

• Associate Professor
• Lecturer level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Clinical psychology

Wages

• Associate Professor

  Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~ 8 million yen

  Annual salary system will be applied.

• Lecturer level

  Annual Salary : 5 million yen ~ 7 million yen

  Annual salary system will be applied.

Qualifications

• Work experience

  Have three or more years of full-time (or part-time) teaching experiences for students' practical training and seminars of psychology in university programs
  (including graduate programs, two-year college or specialized training college programs).

• Official qualification in specific field, etc.

  Have a “Licensed Psychologists” license (a clinical psychologist license issued by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) or have a plan to obtain the license. We further welcome licensed clinical psychologists issued by the Foundation of the Japanese Certification Board for Clinical Psychologists.

• Description

  [Details of required special expertise, qualification of the specific fields or degrees, etc.]
  
  All of the following requirements must be fulfilled:
  (1) Have three or more years of full-time (or part-time) teaching experiences for students' practical training and seminars of psychology in university programs
  (including graduate programs, two-year college or specialized training college programs).
  (2) Have a “Licensed Psychologists” license (a clinical psychologist license issued by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) or have a plan to obtain the license. We further welcome licensed clinical psychologists issued by the Foundation of the Japanese Certification Board for Clinical Psychologists.
  (3) Have experiences of clinical psychotherapies in medical and health area.
  (4) Those who are enthusiastic and proactive in the training and education of licensed psychologists at Kanazawa-University.
  (5) An applicant of any nationality can be considered. A command of Japanese sufficient to lecture, hold seminars and attend meetings is required.
  (6) Residence in Kanazawa or surrounding cities after employment.

Employment Type

• Associate Professor

  Regular employee

• Lecturer level

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Associate Professor

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period present

  Trail period 6 months

• Lecturer level

  Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  The term of lecturer is set for 5 years at the time of employment. (If you are currently working at our university and work continuously, the total term of office, from the current term to the next term, cannot exceed 10 years.) The candidate will be converted to adequate tenured status, based on the following achievements, which is to be implemented during the term.
  (1) Educational achievements (Lecture, Practicum, Seminar, Research guidance, etc.)
  (2) Research achievements (Research papers, Presentations at conferences, Research grants)
  (3) Contribution to the university and society, and so on

  Probationary period present

  Trail period 6 months

Work location

• 920-1192 Ishikawa Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa

Compensation

• Various systems

  Pay increase system : available

  Bonus : unavailable

  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

• Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace

  There are designated smoking areas.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2025/10/01

Starting date : 2025/10/01

• Job content supplemental explanation

  [Available positions (Job title, number of positions, etc.)]
  
  One Associate Professor (tenured) or Lecturer (five-year fixed-term contract*)
  *The term of Lecturer is set for 5 years at the time of employment. (If you are currently working at our university and work continuously, the total term of office, from the current term to the next term, cannot exceed 10 years.) The candidate will be converted to adequate tenured status, based on the following achievements, which is to be implemented during the term.
  (1) Educational achievements (Lecture, Practicum, Seminar, Research guidance, etc.)
  (2) Research achievements (Research papers, Presentations at conferences, Research grants)
  (3) Contribution to the university and society, and so on
  

Application period

• 2025/04/02~2025/06/20 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • 01_Curriculum Vitae.doc
  • 02_Research achievement.docx
  • 03_Acquisition of competitive research funds.docx
  • 04_Educational performance.xlsx

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  With photo and detailed description of your academic and professional back-ground starting from the graduation from university(including a list of research achievements, the information of peer-reviewed articles, the details of research grants). E-mail address is also required.
  Please use the university format (attached documensts).
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  Research achievement, acquisition of competitive research funds, experience in contribution to society and educational performance.
  Please use the university format (attached documensts).

  Other online application forms
  ○ Clinical experiences:
  ① List of clinical activities. Necessary to include (i) your major area (“Social Welfare”, “School and Education (including counseling institutions in the university)”, “Medical and Health”, “Forensic and Criminal”, and “Industrial and Organizational”), (ii) period of activities, (iii) subject person for the clinical support in your activities, and (iv) your position of the activities.
  ② Summary of your major activities in clinical psychology (In Japanese, case reports and so on, approximately two A4-sized pages)
  ③ Lists of experience in providing supervision to graduate students, support workers, etc.(Specify what agency or field, for how long, and to what subjects you conducted your supervision).
  ○ Ambitions and plans for future education of “Licensed Psychologists” (approximately 1,000 characters in Japanese)
  ○ Within five* major publications and their summaries (for each publication,
  approximately 1,000 characters in Japanese).
  * For Associate Professor, just five publications and summaries are required.
  ○ Information of one or more reference persons (name, affiliation, e-mail address, phone number and relationship to the applicant).
  ○ If you have following licenses. A copy of document that can prove that you have a “Licensed Psychologists” or “Clinical Psychologist” qualification.
  ○ If you have completed the Training Program for Practical Training Instructors of Licensed Psychologists or the Training Program for Supervisors of Practical Training for Licensed Psychologists, please submit a copy of the certificate. If you have not completed those courses, you will be required to take the courses as soon as you start working at the university.

  Other Mailing Documents
  As for the research book(s), you may choose to mail the original book(s) to the address .

• Return of application documents

  Others

  Submitted the research book(s) will not be returned unless requested. Applicants who wish to have their documents returned must enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
  

• Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

  920-1192 Ishikawa Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Human and Social Sciences
  Professor Tsutomu OKADA

  Precautions : Please write “Application for Full-Time Faculty Position in Faculty of Humanities” in red on the front of the envelope.
  

• * 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 interview and be asked to give a teaching demonstration, we will inform you of the result by e-mail after various meetings at the university.
  

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