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Selection examination for the 2025 academic year (assistant director level / unit chief level (major career-track employee equivalent) (tentative)

Employees at assistant director level / unit chief level (equivalent to major career-path employee) who are in charge of administrative work related to the administration of the Digital Agency are scheduled to be recruited under the following terms and conditions.
We will announce it again on this page when we start accepting applications.

Table of Contents

  1. Job Description
  2. People who seek application requirements
  3. Selection Schedule (tentative)
  4. Details of selection (tentative)
  5. Examination Site (Third Selection) (tentative)
  6. Planned number of new hires
  7. Scheduled date of employment
  8. How to apply
  9. Application Summary

1. Job description

Digital Agency Of the government positions belonging to the classified job ladder for which the standard government position concerning administrative organs under the jurisdiction of the prefectural government is section chief, government positions whose duties are planning and drafting of policies or affairs related to research and study, and for which the foreign national is able to utilize work experience at private enterprises or other similar experience.

  • Following example
    • Smooth execution of operations in each specialized area of the back office, centered on general affairs, personnel, and accounting areas
    • Management related to the identification of issues and measures to resolve them when providing products developed by Digital Agency
    • Planning and coordination of laws and ordinances and systems under the jurisdiction of Digital Agency, response to inquiries about interpretation, and liaison and coordination with parties concerned with legal revisions
    • Planning, management and coordination of decision-making meetings for policy implementation

2. Who is the application requirements?

Eligibility

Assistant director level

  • Eligibility
    • At the time of application, persons who have worked at the University, etc. (excluding Junior College) for 8 years or more after graduation or completion of a graduate school program, etc.
  • Who You Want
    • A person who has a strong interest in public affairs and the enthusiasm to work as a servant of the whole
    • A person who has the ability to think logically, judge, express themselves and have other comprehensive abilities to solve difficult problems
    • Person who has the ability to appropriately and effectively conduct personal negotiations and coordination with a wide range of stakeholders
    • A person who has a basic ability in a foreign language that is necessary for performing his / her duties.
    • A person who has acquired techniques for efficient and agile business execution as well as other knowledge and ability through work experience
    • A person who is expected to improve his / her knowledge and ability through training or work experience after initial appointment.
    • Employees with experience in management

Assistant manager level

  • Eligibility
    • At the time of application, persons who have worked at the University, etc. (excluding Junior College) for three (3) years after graduation or completion of a graduate school program, etc.
  • Who You Want
    • A person who has a strong interest in public affairs and the enthusiasm to work as a servant of the whole
    • A person who has the ability to think logically, judge, express themselves and have other comprehensive abilities to solve difficult problems
    • Individuals with excellent communication skills who can coordinate with a wide range of stakeholders
    • A person who has a basic ability in a foreign language that is necessary for performing his / her duties.
    • A person who has acquired techniques for efficient and agile business execution as well as other knowledge and ability through work experience
    • A person who is expected to improve his / her knowledge and ability through training or work experience after initial appointment.

*In order to confirm whether or not the final successful candidate satisfies the applicable qualifications, the final successful candidate shall submit a Certificate of Employment, etc. Please note that the period during which a Certificate of Employment, etc. cannot be submitted will not be included in the work experience. In addition, if a Certificate of Employment, etc. cannot be submitted or a Certificate of Employment, etc. containing a false statement is submitted, the offer of employment may be cancelled.

Please note that those who fall under the following categories will not be able to apply.

  • A person who does not have Japanese nationality
  • Persons who are not eligible to become a national government officer under Section 38 of the national government officer Act.
    • A person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a severer punishment and who has not yet completed the execution of the sentence or to whom the sentence still applies
    • A person who has been subject to disciplinary dismissal and for whom two years have yet to elapse from the date of such disposition
    • A person who, on or after the day on which the Constitution of Japan came into effect, formed or became a member of a political party or any other organization which advocated the overthrow by force of the Constitution of Japan or the Government established thereunder;
  • Persons who have been declared quasi-incompetent pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Code prior to revision in 1999 (excluding those due to diminished capacity)
  • Persons who fall under the retirement age prescribed in Article 81-6 of the national government officer Metropolitan Law (retirement due to retirement age) by the scheduled time of employment (the retirement age in the 2025 academic year is 62 years old)

3. Selection Schedule (tentative)

We will let you know on this page when we start recruiting.

4. Details of Selection (Scheduled)

  • Primary screening
    • Document screening
    • Short essay test
  • Second Selection
    • Aptitude test (Test to measure basic ability and personality. Web test is planned.)
  • Third round of screening
    • Multiple interviews (testing personality, interpersonal skill, etc.)

5. Examination Site (Third Selection) (Scheduled)

As a general rule, face-to-face meetings are planned at the Digital Agency office.

6. Number to be hired

A few persons

7. Scheduled Hiring Date

We will let you know on this page when we start recruiting.

8. How to apply

We will let you know on this page when we start recruiting.

The following documents are scheduled to be submitted at the Primary Screening (Document Screening and Short Essay Examination). Please download and submit the documents listed below. The format of the short essay is limited to unit chief level. For assistant director level, it is a free format of up to two A4 pages.

Essay Topic

Assistant director level

  • Describe your experience in resolving issues involving any (or all) of the following elements in your work experience to date, and how your experience will be useful in Digital Agency. (A4 size, 2 pages or less, free format)
    • Discovery and investigation of issues
    • Planning and drafting solutions
    • Internal and external explanation and coordination
    • Implementing Solutions
    • Management of subordinates, colleagues and juniors

Assistant manager level

  • Write about how your work experience will be useful in Digital Agency's various policies and organizational design, while touching on the specific contents of various policies and the characteristics of Digital Agency's organizations (and their issues). (Up to 2000 characters) (Designated Form)

9. Application Overview

Salary

  • The monthly salary at the time of initial appointment shall be determined in consideration of the balance with the monthly salary received by employees who were appointed through the Examination for Comprehensive Service by national government officer (university graduate) or the Level I Examination for national government officer and who have the same number of years of experience as the newly appointed employee.
    • In the case of assistant director level
      • Assistant director level at headquarters (Level 4 of Administrative Service (I): 380,660 yen or more per month)
      • Assistant director level at headquarters (Level 5 of Administrative Service (I): 422,960 yen or more per month)
    • In the case of assistant manager level
      • Unit Chief level at headquarters (Grade 3, Administrative Division (1): 335,860 yen or more per month)

Place of employment

  • Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, 1-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094

Working hours

  • In principle, 7 hours and 45 minutes

Holiday

  • Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year's holidays (December 29 to January 3)

Annual leave

  • 20 days per year (if hired on April 1, 15 days per year of employment)
  • Sick leave, special leave (summer, marriage, childbirth, bereavement, volunteer work, etc.), family care leave, etc.

Other allowances

  • Payment of dependent allowances, housing allowances, commuting allowances, overtime allowances, term-end / diligence allowances (bonuses), allowance for employees on unaccompanied postings, etc., according to the circumstances of employees

Pay raise

  • Annually