Work in Japan : Specialist ｆor International Office

Minimum Experience Level

Over 3 years 

Minimum English Level

Business Level 

Minimum Japanese Level

Fluent 

Minimum Education Level

Bachelor's Degree 

Visa Status

Japanese national or permission to work in Japan required  

As the Specialist for the International Office at OIST provide resources for international members of the OIST community. Facilitate the transition of new employees to OIST. Provide an interface between the local Okinawan community and international OIST employees. Prepare and maintain a bilingual guide to settling and living in Okinawa. Provide advice about international recruiting.

1. Establish contact with international candidates and hirees early in the process to establish needs and expectations of individuals and their families.

2. Prepare and maintain resources to help new international members transition and settle at OIST and in the Okinawan community, including printed and web-based bilingual guides for OIST internal procedures, local housing, schooling, medical, visa, transportation, etc.

3. Provide ongoing support to international members of OIST.

4. Provide management with guidance concerning the recruiting and settling process from an international point of view.

5. Perform other related duties as required

BENEFITS
Relocation, housing and commuting allowances, annual paid leave, summer holidays, national social insurance (shakai-hoken) includes health insurance, welfare pension insurance (kousei-nenkin-hoken), and worker’s accident compensation insurance (roudousya-saigai-hosyou-hoken).

1. Fluent bilingual English and Japanese, including oral and written communications.

2. Experience with moving and transition of international families.

3. Experience with service oriented customer relations.

4. Experience with recruiting and settling senior as well as junior level employees.

5. Experience with public sector, political and social organizations

6. Bachelors degree or higher

The project to establish the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology was first announced in June 2001 by the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs and the Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy. The Japanese Cabinet Office promotes the project with the following three objectives:

Firstly, to establish in Japan a leading center for research and education that will address new challenges in science and technology. Having achieved economic development through technological innovation, Japan is keen to make significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology. Today, many emerging fields of science and technology require multidisciplinary research. The Institute will focus on integrative approaches to high level research and education.

Secondly, to provide a successful model of a research university for Japanese academia. Existing universities with rigid departmental structures face difficulties in developing new systems to accommodate integrative research and education. An additional challenge is to establish a fully internationalized environment. Aside from the Institute holding lectures in English, the Institute will encourage the use of English as the working language of the graduate university. It is hoped that the infusion of differing cultural mindsets will develop a creative atmosphere that nurtures an original and questing spirit.

Thirdly, to stimulate the economic transformation of Okinawa. As Okinawa moves beyond the 30th anniversary of Reversion to Japan (2002), the need to develop a self-sustaining, private-sector-driven economy is clear. As an integral step in this process, the Institute aims jump start the development of an industrial and technological cluster.

Okinawa’s beautiful natural surroundings and geographical proximity to several East-Asian metropolis provide an ideal setting for a world-class university.