Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
Background of the recruitment and description of the project
Hiroshima University (HU) herewith makes an open international job offer and seeks to appoint Professor with tenure; Associate Professor on Tenure Track System in the research area of Studies in Modern and Contemporary German History. This position is based on the ‘Policy for recruiting/cultivating excellent faculty members’.
https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/employment/kyoinkobo
Work content and job description
Teaching responsibilities
The following courses are scheduled to be taught.:
(1) Undergraduate level (general education courses): Basic German (in Japanese), European History (in Japanese), Peace Studies (in Japanese), Peace Science Course (in Japanese), etc.
(2) Undergraduate level (discipline specific courses): European History (in Japanese), Comparative Study of Social Culture, Supervision of undergraduate theses (in Japanese), etc.
(3) Graduate level (master’s programs): European Society in History (in Japanese or Engish), European Culture, Special Study (in Japanese or English), etc.
(4) Graduate level (doctoral programs): Special Study (in Japanese or English), etc.
Note: The subjects you are responsible for may be changed or added.
Assigned department
Existing departments
Work location
Address
739-8521 Hiroshima 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Hiroshima University
Number of hired
Number of hired: 1 person(s)
Hiring date: 2027-04-01 00:00:00
Starting date: 2027-04-01 00:00:00
Where to apply
Website: https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&ln=1&id=D126080269&ln_jor=1
Additional Information
Benefits
Compensation
Leading Researcher (R4)
Annual salary: 7 million yen
Wages description:
- The annual salary system (II) which was enforced in October 2021 will be applied to the successful candidates.
- Successful candidates may be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred for the trip from their home or former place of work to the new place of work to assume their post in accordance with the relevant regulations of Hiroshima University. For more information, please contact us.
Working hours: 08:30-17:00
Break time: 12:00-12:45
Holidays: Holidays are Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays in principle.
Overtime and other explanations: If you are agreeable to the application of the Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work, you are deemed to work for 7 hours and 45 minutes a day.
Employment type: Regular employee
Contract period: Tenured
Probationary period: Present; six (6) months
Established Researcher (R3)
Annual salary: 6 million yen
Wages description:
- The annual salary system (II) which was enforced in October 2021 will be applied to the successful candidates.
- Successful candidates may be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred for the trip from their home or former place of work to the new place of work to assume their post in accordance with the relevant regulations of Hiroshima University. For more information, please contact us.
Working hours: 08:30-17:00
Break time: 12:00-12:45
Holidays: Holidays are Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays in principle.
Overtime and other explanations: If you are agreeable to the application of the Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work, you are deemed to work for 7 hours and 45 minutes a day.
Employment type: Regular employee
Contract period: Nontenured-Tenure-track
Contract period description: 7 years (in case that tenure-track Associate Professor gets promoted to tenured Associate Professor)
- Tenure-track faculty members will undergo a tenure review at least six (6) months or more in advance of the expiration date of appointment, and those who have successfully passed the review process will be granted tenure along with promotion either to associate professor.
- Granting a candidate for tenure is subject to two reviewing process: an intermediate and final review. If a candidate is not granted tenure in final review, he/she will be dismissed from the university upon completion of the term of appointment.
- If a candidate has taken a leave because of some life events such as delivering a baby, child-raising and caregiving, he/she may extend the term of appointment up to certain period according to the length of such leave.
Probationary period: Present; six (6) 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
Hiroshima University has been entirely smoke-free from January 2020.
Supplementary explanation of compensation
※Hiroshima University has introduced a system whereby researchers' personnel expenses are paid out of direct expenses such as competitive research grants and joint research grants, and the obtained research financial resources can be used to improve the treatment of researchers themselves (additional Salary) and to improve the research environment.
※We conduct individual performance evaluations for all Hiroshima University faculty members after their employment, numerically rate their performance, and salary and benefits are commensurate with performance indicators.
Work Location(s)
Number of offers available: 1
Company/Institute: Hiroshima University
Country: Japan
City: Hiroshima
