Job type

• Lecturer level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Foreign language education
• Humanities & Social Sciences - English linguistics
• Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics

Wages

• Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~ 7 million yen

  (1) Basic yearly salary：JPY 6,180,000
  (2) Allowances：commuting allowance, duty allowance, overtime allowance, etc.

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor / Master

  Applicants must be able to start working from the above starting date, and must meet all the following eligibility requirements:
  (1) Must have at least a master’s degree at the time of application with a relevant research field.
  (2) Must have three or more years of experience in teaching English to Japanese university students. Must be passionate about education and research and be willing to actively participate in the operational affairs of our English language program.
  (3) Must have native or near-native proficiency in English. (Applicants who are nonnative speakers of Japanese should have an adequate command of Japanese to perform administrative duties.)
  *Those who have been employed with Ritsumeikan Trust on a fixed-term contract for six or more consecutive years immediately preceding the academic year before starting this position are not eligible to apply.

Employment Type

• Regular employee

Contract period

• Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2031 (5 years, not renewable) (No probationary term)

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 567-8570 Osaka 2-150 Iwakuracho, Ibaraki Ritsumeikan University

  Workplace: Osaka Ibaraki Campus（Osaka Prefecture）
  There is a possibility that you might be in charge of subjects taking place on the
  Kinugasa (Kyoto Prefecture) or Biwako-Kusatsu Campus (Shiga Prefecture).

Compensation

• Various systems

  Transportation expenses : 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

  ● Ritsumeikan campuses are completely no smoking

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  ● In accordance with the Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life, Ritsumeikan actively welcomes applications from women.
  ● Ritsumeikan has various systems in place to support work-life balance.
  Research-Life Support Division for Promotion of Gender Equality:
  https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/research/rsupport/eng/

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2026/04/01

Starting date : 2026/04/01

Application period

• 2025/06/11~2025/08/29 Deadline for receipt

  All application materials must arrive by no later than Friday, August 29, 2025(JST)

Application method

• Application documents (specified forms)

  • Fixed-term Faculty (Lecturer) for College of Information Science and Engineering (CISE).pdf

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Mailing

  Please submit a “Curriculum Vitae” in the designated form.
  Achievements and Activities : Mailing

  Please submit a “Research Achievement Report” (Form A) in the designated form.

  Other Mailing Documents
  Prospective applicants should submit the following:
  (1) Curriculum Vitae* (signed)
  (2) Full list of publications (see Form A*)
  * Curriculum Vitae Form (in MS Excel format) and Form A (in MS Excel format) can be downloaded from the following Recruitment Information site:
  https://en.ritsumeikan-trust.jp/info/employment/
  (3) Certificate of your degree (a photocopy is acceptable; successful candidates will later be required to present the original document to the office.)
  (4) Full copies of up to three academic publications in relevant areas
  (5) Summaries of the three academic publications (either about 400 characters in Japanese or 500 words in English for each)
  (6) An essay of explaining the applicant’s educational aspirations in
  Ritsumeikan University (either about 800 characters in Japanese or 1000 words in English) (free format)
  (7) Two references (names, contact information, and relationship to the applicant)(free format)
  
  All application materials must be sent in printed form to the address below (by registered postal mail).
  In addition to the printed materials, in the same envelope, applicants must enclose a CD-R, DVD-R, or other medium with all the application materials prepared in these formats: Curriculum Vitae and Form A in MS Excel format, and the others in PDF format.
  * Please note that materials submitted will not be returned.
  * Personal information provided for the application will be handled with the utmost care, in accordance with the university regulations. This information will only be used for applicant screening purposes.

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

• Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

  567-8570 Osaka 2-150 Iwakuracho, Ibaraki
  Administrative Office, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

  Precautions : Application materials must be sent by registered mail and the envelope clearly labeled in red ink as follows: “Application documents for the English lecturer position”
  * Applications submitted by e-mail or brought to the office will NOT be accepted.

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  1. The First Screening (Document Screening)
  2. The Second Screening (Interview and mock lesson)
  Transportation fees will be reimbursed only for domestic travel (public transportation only).

• Notification of result

  Only those applicants who pass the first screening will be notified and provided with details of the second screening by September 13.
  The result of the second screening will be notified individually.

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