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Now recruiting
Date of update : 2025/06/06 End date of accepting applications : 2025/08/18
Now recruiting
Date of update : 2025/06/06
End date of accepting applications : 2025/08/18

Work location : Chugoku district - Okayama

Date of publication : 2025/06/05

Call for Associate Professor (Division of Geochemistry)

D125060348

National university

Research field : Environmental science - Environmental impact assessment | Environmental science - Environmental dynamic analysis | Natural Science - Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences | Natural Science - Biogeosciences

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

Job description

  • Background of the recruitment and description of the project

    Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology is seeking to appoint a suitable candidate to the position of Associate Professor of Geochemistry. Please refer to the following URL about the Department of Earth Science.

    https://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/earth/index_e.html

  • Work content and job description

    Educations of basic and specialized subjects relating to Earth Sciences for undergraduate and graduate students, and researches in the field of geochemistry.

  • Assigned department

    Existing departments

    Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology

Job type

  • Associate Professor

Research field

  • Environmental science - Environmental impact assessment
  • Environmental science - Environmental dynamic analysis
  • Natural Science - Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences
  • Natural Science - Biogeosciences

Wages

  • Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~

    Basic annual salary and Performance-based annual salary: Associate Professor 6,758,000-7,980,000 yen
    An annual salary system is applied. The amount of annual salary is determined in consideration of the person’s educational background, work experience, etc. according to the Okayama University annual salary Regulations.
    The percentage of annual performance pay depends on the length of service within six months prior to the base date (June 1 and December 1), and the performance rate varies depending on the results of the evaluation.
    As allowances, commuting allowance, support allowance, housing allowance, adjustment allowance, etc. will be paid separately to the applicable employees.
    Salary rules: https://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/tp/society/boshyu-kyoiku.html

Working hours

  • Working hours :08:30-17:30

    Holidays : Saturdays and Sundays, national holidays, and December 29 to January 3 (Article 42, paragraph 2 of the Personnel Work Rules)

    Overtime and other explanations : If the employee agrees to the application of the discretionary work system for specialized work, working hours will be deemed as 7 hours and 45 minutes per day. Overtime work is not required in principle. Day-off work may be required. (Articles 41 and 42 of the Personnel Work Rules)

Application requirements

Qualifications

  • Education and Degree Requirements

    Ph.D. / Doctor

  • Description

    (1) Applicants must have a doctoral degree or PhD in a related field.
    (2) Applicants must have substantial research achievements and future promising possibilities in the field of environmental geochemistry.
    (3) Applicants must have ability to promote research and education in collaboration with other members of the department.
    (Preferred)
    (4) The applicant with sufficient Japanese language skill is preferred.

Employment Type

  • Regular employee

Contract period

  • Tenured - Non-tenure track

    Probationary period present

    Trial period 6 month

Work location

  • 700-8530 Okayama 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita-ku, Okayama City

Compensation

  • Various systems

    Retirement allowances : available

    Transportation expenses : available

    Retirement age : available

    Others : Salary increase: Not available （However, the grade may be revised according to the separately determined standard）
    Performance-based annual salary: Available (under separately established criteria)

  • 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

    Smoking is prohibited on campus.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

    1 person(s)

    Hiring date : 2026/04/01

    Starting date : 2026/04/01

  • Job content supplemental explanation

    【Post commencement date】
    As soon as possible after April 2026

Application period

  • 2025/06/05~2025/08/18 Deadline for receipt

    Upload to the JREC-IN Portal site must be completed by 23:59 (JST) on Monday, August 18, 2025.

Application method

  • Application documents (specified forms)

  • Attached documents

    Application Form : Online Submission
    (1) CV (Form 1)

    Other online application forms
    (2) Activities in academic societies and society (Form 2)
    (3) Curriculum vitae on education (Form 3)
    (If you have experience supervising graduate students, please state whether you have master's or doctoral degrees.)
    (4) Research achievement summary (Form 4)
    (5) List of research achievements (Form 5)
    (6) Contact information of two reference persons (Form 6)
    (7) Books, reprints, etc. (up to 5 representative publications)
    (8) Essay on applicant's policy on the research and education (free format)
    (For each of the research and education, less than one page of A4 paper, including figures and tables.)
    Forms 1-6, please use these attached documents.
    Forms 1-6 and application documents (8) should be combined into one PDF file. Each reprint in (7) should be a separate PDF file.
    Compress (Zip) all the PDF files above mentioned, and submit them electronically through the JREC-IN Portal site. Name of the compressed (Zip) file should be "Applicant's full name.zip".

  • Return of application documents

    We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

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Selection / Notification of result

  • Selection

    After reviewing the documents, interviews will be carried out as needed.
    The interview schedule will be announced later.
    (The applicants should pay transportation and accommodation expenses for the interview.)

  • Notification of result

    The selection result will be notified to all applicants.

Contact details

Okayama University

Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology

TERASAKI HIDENORI

desc-prof@okayama-u.ac.jp

Notes

Okayama University promotes gender equality and supports female teachers. We welcome active participation of women in the application process.

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