Work in Japan : Academic Advisor

Minimum Experience Level

Over 3 years 

Minimum English Level

Native 

Minimum Japanese Level

None 

Minimum Education Level

Bachelor's Degree 

Visa Status

Japanese national or permission to work in Japan required  

Position: Academic Advisor

Department: Academic Advising Center, Undergraduate Program

Position Type: Full-time staff

Operating hour: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday

Salary/Benefits: Commensurate with experience.
Eleven days paid vacation in the first year increasing to 20 days after 6 years of employment, plus 5 paid “personal days” each year. Japanese social insurance and pension, commuting allowance, and tuition benefits for TUJ programs.

School Profile
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) is the Tokyo Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia. The undergraduate program at TUJ provides higher education for approximately 800 undergraduate students to pursue a degree in one of the Colleges of Art, Business, Communications, or Liberal Arts. All teaching and management functions are conducted entirely in English.

Job Description
- Provide academic advising for all undergraduate students, with particular responsibility for those studying for the Bachelor of Business Administration.
- Provide academic advising at all levels from choice of major through to graduation review, as well as to freshman and transfer students.
- Organize and conduct the new student orientation and advising.
- Serve as a liaison between the Academic Advising Center and the Business program, including providing the Business program
- Organize advising events to assist the students to develop their knowledge of the majors offered, the curriculum, policy and regulations, and their independence to pursue their academic career.

Qualifications
- Bachelor degree.
- A minimum of two years of experience of working in higher education at US institution providing student services/or academic advising.
- Excellent communication skills (oral and writing). The successful candidate will be expected work with a diverse student population in a multi-ethnic/multicultural environment.
- The ability to use the Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to create and edit advising materials.
- Detail-oriented, student-centered, independent, collaborate and able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Preferred qualifications
- A Master’s degree in a related field, living experience in Japan/knowledge of Japanese.
- Academic advising and/or educational background in Business Studies.

Temple University, the home campus of Temple University Japan, is a large, well-known, highly respected state-related university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1884, the university is today the 28th largest university in the United States and one of the nation’s leading centers of professional education. Temple University offers bachelors degree programs in about 130 areas, 110 master degree programs, 50 doctoral degree programs, and eight first-professional degree programs. Temple University has more than 35,000 students and 2,600 full-time faculty members.

Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ), is the oldest and largest foreign university in Japan. Founded in 1982, TUJ has developed into a nationally recognized institution offering an extensive range of educational programs. In addition to its core undergraduate program, TUJ offers graduate programs in law, business, and education; an English-language preparation program; continuing education courses; and corporate education classes.

The student population at TUJ stands at about 2,830 students and growing. TUJ takes pride in its top-quality, English-language education and in providing a unique opportunity for students to obtain American undergraduate and graduate degrees without leaving Japan.

TUJ is the first educational institution in Japan to be officially recognized as a Foreign University, Japan Campus by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. This status allows TUJ to sponsor student visas, enabling international students to study at the university on either a short-term basis (one or two semesters) or a long-term basis (such as to complete a full four-year program).

One of TUJ’s greatest assets is its student body. Students come from about 40 countries around the world, including Japan, the United States, East and Southeast Asia, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Its diverse student body helps make TUJ a rich, dynamic, and stimulating institution.

TUJ’s superb faculty works closely with students to help them achieve their academic objectives. We organize small classes to facilitate lively discussions and to allow professors to give special attention to students. Moreover, TUJ offers the Temple University brand of education, providing the same course content as that of Temple’s main campus and teaching all but its language courses in English. Studying at TUJ offers the same quality education as at Temple University in the United States and makes it easy to transfer to Temple’s main campus or to any other North American universities in the U.S. and elsewhere.