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06/07/2021

Associate Professor or Tenure Track Assistant Professor (Educational Technology / Learning Engineering)

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  • ORGANISATION/COMPANY
    The University of Electro-Communications
  • RESEARCH FIELD
    Computer science › Informatics
    Educational sciences
    Information science › Library science
    Technology › Information technology
  • RESEARCHER PROFILE
    Leading Researcher (R4)
    Established Researcher (R3)
    Recognised Researcher (R2)
  • APPLICATION DEADLINE
    24/09/2021 23:59 - Asia/Tokyo
  • LOCATION
    Japan › Tokyo
  • TYPE OF CONTRACT
    Permanent
  • JOB STATUS
    Full-time
  • HOURS PER WEEK
    See description

OFFER DESCRIPTION

[Field of specialty]
- Educational technology / Learning Engineering
We are looking for a researcher who is well grounded in online educational systems and higher education, and who is familiar with key educational/learning technology such as e-learning, advanced learning media, learning analytics, learning management system (LMS), educational user interface, instructional design, evaluation/test, etc.

[Responsible subjects]
The successful applicant will be expected to take charge of jobs related to e-Learning center, and to engage in research and practice for promoting effectiveness of online education and for developing educational systems with advanced technology.

The successful applicant will be also expected to have an enthusiasm for education. In particular, the tenure-track assistant professor must be highly motivated to educate. Teaching graduate/undergraduate classes and giving research guidance to students will also be evaluated factors in the tenure-qualification review. There is accordingly a possibility that the successful applicant is requested to teach classes and give research guidance to students.

[Place of employment]
The University of Electro-Communications (1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan)

[Title and number of position]
Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), one position

[Start of employment]
Apr. 1, 2022 (or later at the earliest possible date.)

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Additional Information

Benefits

(1) Term of employment:
-Associate Professor position: permanent full-time (until the mandatory retirement age)
-Assistant Professor position: UEC Tenure Track
･The tenure-track period will last 5 years from the start of employment. In case tenure is not granted at the 5th year, up to a maximum of 2 more years of non-tenure-track employment period can be added, which would serve as a preparatory period to look for outside opportunities.
･The tenure-track period can be extended if you take childcare, prenatal, postnatal, or nursing care leave. In this regard, the implementation of both the tenure interim evaluation and examination can be changed within the extended term. However, the total tenure-track period from the hiring date should be within a maximum of 10 years.

(2) Employment status: Full-time research and education employee

(3) Place of employment: The University of Electro-Communications (1-5-1Chofugaoka, Chofu,Tokyo)

(4) Work hours: Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work
Based on standard work hours of 7 hours and 45minutes during 8:30am-5:15pm, an individual employee may decide how his/her schedule will fit into work day.

(5) Holidays: Saturday, Sunday, holidays prescribed by the National Holiday Act, New Year's holiday, and the days designated by UEC.
However, if an employee teaches a night course of the Fundamental Programs for Advanced Engineering that is offered on Saturday, the day off should be taken on one of the weekdays instead. For securing the number of credit hours, an employee may need to work on public holidays.

(6) Paid holidays: Annual paid holidays, special leave, childcare leave, and nursing care leave

(7) Insurances: Health insurance/pension (the Monbukagakusho Mutual-Aid Association insurance), employment insurance, and worker's compensation insurance

[The measures against second-hand smoking in your workplace.]
There are measures for indoor passive smoking.

Additional comments

･As for UEC tenure track, please refer to the following URL for general information.
http://www.uec.ac.jp/eng/research/activity/uec_tenure_track/index.html
･All faculty members of UEC belong to the Academic Institute where individual faculty members are assigned to specific departments or centers.

･Based on an aim to engage in the target value that is described in the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet office, Government of Japan), the government is acting to achieve a ten percent increase in the number of young researchers under 40 years of age, and hopes to increase this number by over thirty percent in the overall higher educations for the future. UEC is recruiting well-qualified young researchers in order to foster them and accelerate their dynamic research activities. For more information, please refer to the following URL:
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/tougosenryaku/index.html

･To further promote gender equality and diversity measures, UEC endeavors to increase the number of female faculty members through an effort to ensure women-friendly working environment such as activities in consideration of work-life balance and supports for Research Career Advancement. For further information, please refer to the following link.
http://www.ge.uec.ac.jp/en/

Work location(s)
1 position(s) available at
The University of Electro-Communications
Japan
Tokyo

EURAXESS offer ID: 661378
Posting organisation offer ID: D121061987

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