Associate Professor or Assistant Professor with fixed-term contract

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Job Announcement, IFES-GCOE staffs

We recruit eight staff members in the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Employment is along the initiative of "Establishment of Center for Integrated Field Environmental Science: Proposing Adaptive Strategies for Earth System" (IFES) as a Global Center for Excellence Program (GCOE).

Position:
GCOE Associate Professor, or GCOE Assistant Professor with fixed-term contract

Term of employment:
Positions should be filled by 1 April 2009, for the period until March 2011, extendable until March 2013.

Mission fields:
Candidates are expected to have research experience of environmental science (based on one of earth science, bioscience, and chemical science), and are willing to carry out research, education, and/or support of the IFES-COE relevant to following activities:

(a) Promotion Office of Overseas Research and Student Exchange (3 staffs)
Promotion of research and education at overseas monitoring stations set in Siberia, Mongolia, and Indonesia etc., liaison between the promotion office and overseas stations, planning and management of international summer schools, strategic support to foreign research students.

(b) Promotion Office of Regional Education and Outreach (2 staffs)
Establishment of the employment-support center, planning and management of open courses for citizen, training students for environment communicators, and promoting internship programs. Candidates are expected to have experience not only in research but also in practice.

(c) Task Force of Integrated Modeling (2 staffs)
Developing regional integrated models on core-field sites in Hokkaido, Siberia, Mongolia, Indonesia, etc., and supporting the use of datasets on global change. Candidates are expected to have modeling expertise on either regional meteorology, terrestrial ecosystems, or hydrology, and are willing to develop integrated models including social aspects.

(d) Project Support Unit (1 staff)
Promotion of integrated research programs such as GCOE, collaborating with the administration office of the graduate school, supporting project leaders, coordinating budget and paper works of projects.

Application forms requested:
(1) Curriculum vitae
(2) List of scientific publications; separate original peer-reviewed papers, books & review papers, and others.
(3) Reprints of representative papers (up to three)
(4) Brief of research achievement and expertise relevant to expected mission field (two pages)
(5) Vision statement, with willing position, and mission field chosen from the above (a) to (d) (two pages)
(6) Two names of reference with e-mail addresses

Addressee:
The above application documents should be sent by mail to
Professor, Toshio Iwakuma
Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University,
Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
Specify on an envelope as "Application to GCOE position".

Queries:
Any query on this job announcement will be directed to
Yasuhiro Yamanaka, GCOE Leader
Tel +81.11.706.2363; Fax +81.11.706.4865;
Email

Information:
IFES-GCOE is the initiative for the term 2008-2013. Outline is at http://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/gcoe/en/index.html
GCOE staffs can supervise research students at Graduate School of Environmental Science. GCOE staffs will keep 20% activity to individual research, for that they get ca. 0.8 million-yen research budget from IFES-GCOE. On Hokkaido University, visit http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/en/index.html