CAJ has existed to serve the educational needs of children of English-speaking missionaries and Christians, as well as more recently the general public (in that order of priority) in Japan since 1950. Presently 40% of our 464 students are missionary children.
CAJ provides a modest annual salary of 3.12 million yen, just enough for a single person to live on, so we suggest that our employees solicit additional financial support through friends and family and churches. CAJ's salary is intended to provide a significant portion, but not all, of the amount required to live in Japan. A separate responsibility allowance is added to this salary for staff appointed to the administration (Leadership Team). Staff may be eligible for any or all of the three benefits available: monthly childcare allowance for staff with pre-school children; annual tuition benefit for staff with children enrolled as students at CAJ; monthly longevity allowance for staff who have served at least three years at CAJ.
Although CAJ contractees are not required to join a mission agency, we do encourage staff members to affiliate with a sending agency through which CAJ contracts for the services of the individual staff member, because of the significant long-term benefits of having a prayer support team in place, as well as home country health care plan, retirement plan, and other long-range financial planning.
For those CAJ employees who choose to not affiliate with a sending mission organization, CAJ advises the following:
- health insurance coverage in the employee's home country
- additional support outside the salary CAJ provides
The second item above can be addressed through a CAJ employee's fundraising agreement with Japan Christian Academy Association (JCAA), the offices of which are located in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The process is further described in the JCAA fundraiser manual, available from CAJ to interested applicants.
CAJ does not provide housing free of charge to its staff. However, CAJ does arrange and enter into off-campus housing agreements on behalf of its employees, and occasionally has vacancies in one or more of several school apartments for rent, located adjacent to the campus in a four-story staff housing building.
We ask new staff members to make a non-binding two-year verbal commitment, though the initial contracts are issued for one-year terms.
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