Organization for Promotion of Tenure Track (OPTT) of University of Miyazaki is calling application for one tenure track associate professor.We hope you will apply to this call.

Research and education areas/ Faculty: Livestock Science/ Agriculture
Position: tenure track (TT) associate professor (one position)
We are seeking a scientist who has an excellent ability to teach and carry out research in fields such as feeding, physiology and nutrition, genetic improvement and breeding, environmental management and so on of livestock animals.

*Qualifications
(1) Applicants should have research experience in the above-mentioned research area or related fields. In addition, applicants should be able to work independently and be highly motivated in their pursuit of original and innovative research in their own area of interest. Furthermore, applicants are expected to contribute actively to the education of undergraduate and graduate students. Applicants must have a Ph.D. awarded within the past 10 years. Since the OPTT is applying for the Program to Disseminate Tenure Tracking System by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the program requires that a tenure track staff should be less than 40 years old to get a fund from the program, the age of an applicant should be less than 40 years old (if an applicant graduated from a medical school or a veterinary school, he or she should be less than 43 years old) at the point of application deadline.
(2) International applicants must be able to communicate in English. The international TT associate professor will be expected to develop the ability to communicate in Japanese while he or she works at our university because he or she will have to teach students after promotion to associate professor.
(3) A person who is hired by the University of Miyazaki cannot apply for this call.

For additional information and application form, please visit our website at http://www.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/ttkikou/en/app-info/recruit2013-eng/

*Contact information for application submissions and inquiries

Organization for Promotion of Tenure Track Office
Research Management and International Affairs Department
University of Miyazaki
Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
TEL: +81-985-58-7675
FAX: +81-985-58-7675
E-mail: ttoffice@of.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
URL: http://www.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/ttkikou/
Communication by email is preferred.