24 March: fyi -- English, Japan

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NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS

Vacancies for English Language Assistant Professors
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies

Organisation: NUCB is a private University situated in an unusually
expansive and beautiful green campus just outside Japan's third
largest city, Nagoya. NUCB comprises of just over 3,500 students and
100 lecturers and professors.

Job specification: We have vacancies for full-time lecturers in
English language teaching, cross-cultural studies and business
communications. The faculty has a teaching staff that draws from 15
different nationalities, and includes teachers diverse in age,
experience and qualifications. Professionalism in the faculty is
defined as working to agreed common global standards in language
education. This requires a high degree of collaboration, team effort
and readiness to a range of evaluation instruments. These include
regularly conducted external reference testing of student's
proficiency levels as well as teaching evaluations by the students.
As well as typical classroom duties, lecturers may be requested to
participate in other affairs, such as supporting Open Campus events,
holding demonstration classes at High Schools, and attending other
important promotional events.

Requirements: Applicants should: have a Ph.D in a language related
field, have teaching experience at University level, and be published
in the field. Preference will be given if applicants: have some
Japanese language knowledge, or previous experience of living in
Japan.

Offer: Salary and benefits will be established according to
qualifications, experience and level of appointment offered with
possible twice-annual bonuses of up to 20% of salary. Airfare to
Japan and relocation allowance provided. Initial contract is for 2
years thereafter renewableannually by mutual agreement.

Starting date: September 2004.

Method of application: Please send CV & cover letter, copies of degree
certificates, list of publications and contact details of three
referees by e-mail, fax or post. We would like to fill the positions
as soon as possible.

Address for Applications:

Attn: Anca Anghel
4-4 Sagamine
Komenoki-cho
Nisshin-shi, Aichi-ken 470 0193
Japan

Position is open until filled.

Contact Information:
Anca Anghel
Email: aanghel@nucba.ac.jp
Fax: +81 561 75 2430
Website: http://www.nucba.ac.jp/

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