Tenure-Track Faculty Position, Center for Language Research (TESOL)

Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2), Leading Researcher (R4), Established Researcher (R3)

Application Deadline: 9 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (UTC)

Country: Japan

Type of Contract: Temporary

Job Status: Not Applicable

Hours Per Week: See description

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Background of the recruitment and description of the project

The Center for Language Research is inviting applications for a tenure-track faculty position.
Job Rank: all ranks
Specialty Areas: TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Department: Center for Language Research (CLR), the University of Aizu

Work content and job description

All CLR professors teach an average of four class periods ("koma") per week, with each class period lasting 100 minutes. Core EFL courses are already prepared, but elective courses are designed by each professor. Note that all students major in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). All CLR professors serve on committees, conduct and publish research, and assist with entrance-exam related tasks.

Assigned department: Existing departments

Work location

965-8580 Fukushima Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima-ken, Japan

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

Additional Information

Benefits

Compensation
Annual salary: 4 million yen - 10 million yen
Wages description: (*1) The above is the total amount of base salary and bonus. (*2) Other allowances are paid in addition to the base salary. (*3) Social security premiums, taxes, etc. will be deducted from the salary.
Working hours: 08:30-17:15
Break time: 12:00-13:00
Holidays: Weekends, national holidays, and year-end and New Year holidays (Dec. 29-Jan. 3); 20 paid holidays per year
Overtime and other explanations: 7 hours 45 min/day, 38 hours 45 min/week. (*The UoA uses a discretionary working hour system for faculty members. As discretionary workers, faculty are in principle given discretion over the start and end of their workday, the content of their teaching and research duties, the methods for carrying out those duties, and the allocation of time related to such duties.)
Employment type: Regular employee
Employment type description: Full-time
Contract period: Nontenured-Tenure-track
Contract period description: Three-year tenure-track appointment followed by evaluation and tenure until the mandatory retirement age of 65 if qualified.
Probationary period: Probationary period absent

Various systems

Pay increase system: available
Bonus: available
Retirement allowances: available
Transportation expenses: available
Retirement age: 65

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

Supplementary explanation of compensation

• Insurance: Japan Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers
• Pension and severance payment systems are in place
• Subsidized furnished/unfurnished housing in faculty apartments (2.5 km from campus)
• Very large, well-equipped private office (approx. 27 m2)
• New-employee allowance for computer and research equipment
• Well-equipped, high-tech classrooms
• Annual budget for research, business travel, academic memberships, etc.
• Opportunities to apply for more internal and other external funding
• Consulting and other business activities permitted
• Subsidy on overseas moving cost to Aizuwakamatsu (according to regulations)

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available: 1
Company/Institute: The University of Aizu
Country: Japan
City: Fukushima

Contact

City: Fukushima