​Research Support Personnel Program helps you to maintain your work-family balance. Please see the information below to apply for the program for the fiscal year of 2020.

 

1.       Outline

Research Support Personnel Program provides financial support to employ an assistant for OPU researchers’ work-family balance. This program aims to make an environment that researchers can have enough time for research when they have life events such as pregnancy, child delivery, childcare, and nursing care of a family member.

 

2.       Applicant Eligibility

Applicants	Requirements	Provided support
Faculty members (Both male and female, faculty members with limited-term are included)	Pregnant Childcare (The youngest child has to be under the 3rd grade in junior high school) Nursing care of a family member	Assistant serving time: For 10 hours in maximum per a week

*Applications are reviewed every year.
*The support will be provided for 5 years in maximum per the same conditions which require support (Total period from 2016FY).

 

3.       Application Schedule

Wednesday April 1, 2020 – Friday April 17, 2020
(Applications submitted after the above deadline will not be accepted.)

 

4.       Assistant

The Assistant will be employed as a temporary staff at OPU (Office assistant, Technical assistant, etc.

• The assistant will support the applicant’s research, office work, etc.
• In principle, the applicants have to recruit and employ an assistant by themselves.

 

5.       Start Date of Employment

From/later than July 1, 2020

 

6.       Submission

Kanako NAKAMURA, Center for Women in Research
Email:            diversity@ao.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Location:       Building C4, Nakamozu Campus

 

7.       Documents for Application

• Application Form for 2020FY Research Support Personnel Program
• Work-Family Balance Parameter Sheet for 2020FY Research Support Personnel Program
• Other documents such as National Health Insurance Card, Maternal and Child Health Handbook etc.

 

8.       Review Process

Applicants will be reviewed through the submitted documents and an interview by the review board consists of the Chief Director of Center for Women in Research and the Program Management Board. Applicants will be notified of the result in February 2020.
Please note that we might not be able to accept all the applications in case the number exceeds the allowance of budget.

 

9.       Others

• If 2020FY budget is approved, this program will be implemented.
• Before using this program, please try to include the costs for employing an assistant in the application for any external fund (i.e. KAKENHI).
• Applicants must submit the research result report until the end of March, 2021.

 

10.    Contacts

Kanako NAKAMURA from Center for Women in Research
Office hours: Monday – Friday 9:30 am – 5:00 pm, except national holidays
Location:       Building C4, Nakamozu Campus
Tel/Fax:         (072)-254-9856 (Extension: 5056)
E-mail:          diversity@ao.osakafu-u.ac.jp

 

 

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[Application Call] 2020FY Research Support Personnel Program（PDFファイル/468.74KB）

【Must Submit】Application Form for 2020FY Research Support Personnel Program

【Must Submit】Work-Family Balance Parameter Sheet for 2020FY Research Support Personnel Program（Excelファイル/35.17KB）