empirical research using large-scale data, with a focus on the multifaceted sustainability assessment of cities, regions, and industries. Beyond environmental and economic value, the scope encompasses natural and human capital, organizational diversity and governance structures, and ultimately their effects on the well-being of the people who live there. Building on these research outcomes, the successful candidate will be expected to establish methods for evaluating societal change and information, and to advance education and research on policy formulation and social implementation in collaboration with national and local governments and industry.
Work content and job description
Specialties: Urban and Transportation Engineering, Data Science, Socio-Economic Systems Engineering, Sustainability Engineering
Teaching Responsibilities: Undergraduate: lectures on basic and applied subjects in the Department of Civil Engineering — such as Urban Planning, Introduction to Community and Regional Development, and Transportation Engineering — together with related exercises and experiments.
Graduate: lectures on applied and advanced subjects in the relevant specialized fields in the Department of Civil Engineering.
The successful candidate will also share responsibility for KIKAN (fundamental) education subjects for lower-year undergraduate students, and will share in delivering lectures in English at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Work location
Address: 819-0395 Fukuoka 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Number of hired
Number of hired: 1 person(s)
Starting date: 2027-04-01 00:00:00
Job content supplemental explanation: If an earlier appointment becomes possible at Kyushu University, the start date may be moved forward in coordination with the final candidate.
Where to apply
Website: https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&ln=1&id=D126072210&ln_jor=1
Additional Information
Benefits
Compensation
Annual salary: 7 million yen
Wages description: The annual salary system, which was introduced on 1st of April 2020, will be applied. The annual salary is determined in accordance with the university's pay scale based on experience, etc. The adove annual salary are general guidelines and may be less than the above annual salary in some cases.
Working hours: 08:30-17:15
Break time: 12:00-13:00
Holidays: In addition to *annual leave, Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays and the period from the 29th of December to the 3rd of January
Overtime and other explanations: Based on the agreed-upon discretionary labor system for professional work, it is regarded that working hours are 7 hours and 45 minutes irrespective of how much time the employee actually spends on his/her work
Employment type: Regular employee
Contract period: Tenured
Probationary period: Probationary period present
Trial employment period: Three months
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
Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace
No smoking is permitted on the university premises.
Supplementary explanation of compensation
Additional comments
Kyushu University is committed to promoting gender equality in accordance with the spirit of the Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society (Act No. 78 of 1999).
Applicants who have been subject to disciplinary action or any equivalent measures due to acts of sexual violence, including sexual harassment against students, are required to declare the details of such disciplinary action and the specific reasons for it in their curriculum vitae or other application documents. If any declaration is found to be false, the applicant may be disqualified from the selection process, or any offer of employment may be withdrawn. In addition, disciplinary action may be taken if such false declaration is discovered after employment.
Work Location(s)
Number of offers available: 1
Company/Institute: Kyushu University
Country: Japan
City: Fukuoka
Contact
City: Fukuoka
