Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor
• Assistant Professor level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Foreign language education

Wages

• Common to all Job Types

  Annual Salary : 4 million yen ~

  Salary will be approximately:
  <55-year-old full professor>10.40 million 〜
  <45-year-old associate professor> 8.40 million 〜
  <35-year-old assistant professor> 6.40 million 〜
  * The above salaries do not include individual benefits.
  
  Basic salary (monthly), FY2024 results
  full professor）　45-year-old　594,000yen, 50-year-old　647,300yen
  associate professor）40-year-old　520,000yen, 45-year-old　579,200yen
  assistant professor）　35-year-old　439,000yen, 40-year-old　505,000yen

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Master

  Holder of a Master’s degree or above in the area of English language education (TESOL), applied linguistics, or a related academic field

• Description

  1)First language is English
  2)Holder of a Master’s degree or above in the area of English language education (TESOL), applied linguistics, or a related academic field
  3)At least three years’ English teaching experience at the university level
  4)Sufficient Japanese proficiency for general administrative tasks
  5)Resident of the Kinki area of Japan during the contract period
  6)At least two academic publications

Employment Type

• Common to all Job Types

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Common to all Job Types

  Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  5 years
  The mandatory retirement age of this faculty is 65.

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 610-0394 Kyoto 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe

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

  Others : Benefits include health insurance (administered by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan).

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  ・Salary, research funds, working hours and holidays are stated in the Doshisha University Regulations.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2026/04/01

Starting date : 2026/04/01

Application period

• 2025/06/11~2025/08/04 Deadline for receipt

  Application materials must arrive by Monday, August 4, 2025.

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • Curriculum Vitae (rirekisho), a list of academic publications (gyosekisho).xlsx
  • A list of previous work experience within Doshisha schools (shokumukeireki-houkokusho).xlsx

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  Other online application forms
  Please submit PDF files for all of the following:
  1)Curriculum Vitae (履歴書, rirekisho), a list of academic publications (業績書, gyosekisho), and a list of previous work experience within Doshisha schools (職務経歴報告書, shokumukeireki-houkokusho) [if not applicable, please write “NA” or “なし” in the form]. The necessary forms can be downloaded from the links above.
  2)Two academic publications, with either an abstract or a 300-word summary in English for each publication
  3)Statement in English (about 1,000 words), explaining the reason for applying, including personal philosophy/comments regarding teaching methods
  4)Names and contact information of two references (affiliation, phone number, e-mail address)
  5)Scan of either Master’s degree diploma or Doctorate diploma
  6)Scan of TESOL diploma/certificate (if available)
  7)Scan of document(s) certifying qualification at a certain level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) or similar measurement of Japanese proficiency (if available)

• Return of application documents

  ・Application materials cannot be returned.
  ・Application materials will be retained by the Faculty of Global Communications and will be safely disposed of after the selection. Personal information will not be used for purposes other than the selection, according to the Protection of Personal Information Law of Japan.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  1)After receipt of initial application materials, requests may be made for additional items.
  2)We may request to see original degree certificates/diplomas.
  3)Upon completion of initial screening procedures, final candidates will be interviewed in both English and Japanese.
  4)For those candidates who are requested to come to Doshisha for an interview, partial funding for transportation costs may be available according to the Faculty’s regulations regarding such funding.

• Notification of result

  ・Candidates will be directly notified of the results upon completion of all selection and administrative procedures.

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