Research Support System for Achievement of Life-Work Balance
for SemesterⅡof Academic Year 2023
Application guidelines
The Research Support System for Achievement of Life-Work aims to offer
research/teaching support to those researchers who are not able to set aside sufficient time
for research activities due to child birth, child care and/or family care. If you wish to hire
research and/or teaching assistants under this Support System, please apply in accordancewith the following guidelines.
1. Eligibility for application
Applicants must be TMU-employed researchers involved in pregnancy, child birth, childcare and/or family care.
- “Researchers involved in pregnancy, childbirth, childcare and/or family care” include
those who are on a leave for child birth, child care and/or family care.
- “TMU-employed researchers” do not include contract teaching staffs who are engaged
in teaching only.
- “Child care” means to be given, in principle, to children in the sixth grade or younger.
However, this does not apply if there are special circumstances, such as rehabilitation ofa disabled child.
- “Family care” means to be given, in principle, to the spouse, the parent(s) of theapplicant and the parent(s) of the spouse of the applicant.
- Persons whose adoption total amount of this system exceeds 3 million yen cannot apply.
However, the amount adopted in the “Women Researcher Support System” in 2012 and2013 is not counted as the amount adopted in this system.
2. Number of assistants to be employed
Approximately 10 (tentative)
3. Work content of assistants and types of hiring
Assistants will be hired as one of the following three types. The wages are subject to theTMU public corporation’s rule and regulation.
(1) Temporary staff
To provide assistance in research activities, such as preparing research papers, search for
information and academic materials, audio typing, etc., and office work related to researchor education.
(2) Research assistant
To provide expertise assistance in experiment, statistical processing, data analysis,
preparation of survey slips, etc.
(3) Teaching assistant (master’s programs and doctoral programs) and Senior-teachingassistant (doctoral programs)
To provide teaching assistance*The teaching assistants will provide assistance in accordance with the 2015 TMU
Guidelines for Teaching Assistants.
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4. Important notes in using the support system(1) Up to 500,000 yen is provided per user and per semester to hire assistants. The university
will pay the cost of commuting, employment insurance (corporate burden) and workers'
accident compensation insurance separately.
(2) An applicant may submit a single allocation for hiring temporary staff members, research
assistants, and teaching assistants all together.
(3) As a rule, the user shall not hire the same person as temporary staff and as teachingassistant concurrently. If you have any questions about how to hire assistants, please contact
the staff in charge of your Faculty/Department Office. Be sure that the work should notinterfere with the assistant’s study and research.
(4) Regarding teaching assistants, the applicant may apply to use a teaching assistant as
many times as the number of the sessions of a seminar or a lecture. As a rule, it is calculated
in 2 hours per frame.
(5) The applicant may apply to hire more than one teaching assistant for one session of aseminar or a lecture.
(6) Working hours for research assistants shall not exceed 7 hours 45 minutes a day, 20hours a week.
(7) For salary levels and rewards, please refer to the attached document "Temporary staff,RA salary levels, etc. and TA reward hourly unit price (FY2023)".
5. Securing of assistants
After your application has been selected, you will complete the hiring procedures at yourFaculty/Department Office to secure assistants. Assistants will be hired in accordance with
the TMU’ Rules and Regulations. Assistants must have the abilities to fit your research planand activities. If you want to hire assistants from outside this university, you should contact
us before making application. You can also secure assistants through the Career Support
Affairs Office.
6. Period of hiring
From October 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024
7. Selection process
The Diversity Promotion Committee will examine and select applications. The following
matters will be taken into account.
- First-time applicants will be prioritized.
- Some applications may require adjustments, such as shortening work hours and shifting toassistants at lower pay rates depending on the work content in order to be selected.
8. How to apply
Please submit an application form (Form 1) to the Diversity Promotion Office by e-mail.
(diverwww@tmu.ac.jp). At that time, include the director of the department belonging to
the CC of the mail. Also, when sending from a non-university account, enter the university
email address in the CC.

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9. Application closing date
Monday, June 12, 2023 (Application must arrive at the Office no later than this date.)
10. Notification of selection results
Notify by mid-July 2023
* Notify the applicant and the director of the department to which he / she belongs, theselection result (including the adopted amount).
* If there is a change in salary level, etc. when using the system, hire support staff up to theadopted amount.
11. Reporting on the use of the support system- After the period of using the support system ends, a report on the use of the support system(Form 2) should be submitted.
- The Diversity Promotion Office may ask the user to present a report on the use of thesupport system at a symposium, or a similar event.
12. Others- The application form can be downloaded from the website of the Diversity Promotion
Office. (http://www.comp.tmu.ac.jp/diversity/)- Personal information provided in the application will be used only for selection purposes
under this project.
- The results of selection will be notified in middle July to each applicant and the head ofthe department.
- In principle, the user’s faculty/office will undertake procedures to hire and manage
assistants, management of employment, and make payment. However, costs incurred fromhiring assistants will be paid out of the budget of the President’s office.
- After consulting with the head of the department and others, the user on a leave for childbirth, child care and/or family care can designate a person to supervise assistants on behalfof the user during the leave. In this case, the user should indicate so in the plan for the useof the Support System.
- The assistant will be allowed to make a business trip only when he/she accompanies theuser. The user shall secure costs for business trips for assistant separately, that means suchcosts will not be paid out of the budget of the support system. Regarding business trips inaddition to the above, the user shall follow the TMU Rules and Regulations. If the user has
any questions, he/she should contact the staff in charge of his/her Faculty/Department Officefor clarification.
- As for hiring assistants, the user may be asked to provide proof that selection process ofassistants has been appropriately carried out. If it cannot be proved that the process of
selection has been appropriately carried out, the selection committee will conduct reexamination.
- If it becomes necessary to make adjustments such as reduction, we will notify youseparately.
- Since the adopted amount is distributed based on the employment situation of the support
staff after the adoption, the adopted amount and the dividend amount may not match.
- If you have used this system before and the reason for application is the same as before,3you can omit the following two points from the items described in the application form.
2. Reasons for the use of the Research Support System for Achievement of Life-Work
Balance 1) Current circumstance in relation to pregnancy, child birth, child care, and/or family care, 2)Difficulties in conducting research activities due to the circumstances described in section 1) above

Person in charge and contact information:
Shin FUJIYAMA (Project researcher in charge of promotion of Gender Equality)
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Diversity Promotion Office (Central Library 1F)
1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-city, Tokyo, 192-0397
Phone number: Extension 2571
E-mail address: mtfuji @tmu.ac.jp

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