University Teaching Assistants at Université Paris Cité : Roles and Responsibilities

Your contract requires you to work for 300 hours for the year, which comes to around 12 hours of teaching per week, with semesters lasting for 12 weeks.

You will be teaching for three of the five days per week for both semesters, and you will conduct exams in January, May and June (see calendar).

Your will be teaching mostly undergrad classes and possibly a few postgrad classes as well. Your teaching assignments will be shared with you by the colleague who manages the lecteur team in the Department. You will also have regular meeting with that person to discuss class curricula, assessment methods, and any issues you might encounter.

Our Department boasts a developed system of teamwork which lessens the class preparation workload.

Please state on your CV any experience you may have in teaching English as a foreign language, any knowledge of phonetics/linguistics, skills in literature of English-speaking countries, film studies, art history, creative writing, etc.

For technical reasons, finalized timetables are rarely ready at the start of the academic year. Timetables may be adjusted in the first few weeks of the year.

Please note that teaching assistants are not to leave the Paris region without first informing their supervisor and asking permission.

Your contract begins on September 1, but the academic year begins in mid-September. Please make sure you arrive in Paris for the first week of September so that you have enough time to get settled.

During the second week of September, you will attend a week of crash courses in a range of disciplines. This week of training will allow you to get familiarized with the course content, learn about the campus, and start meeting people.

• 1^st semester: mid-September to mid-December
• 2 weeks of Christmas holidays
• 1^st semester exams: the first two weeks of January
• 2^nd semester: end of January to the end of April, with two weeks of spring break in March or April
• 2^nd semester exams : May
• Exam re-sit period for both semesters : June

You can consult the current year’s academic calendar for the Department of Anglophone Study on this page.

Gross annual salary: €18,588 including health insurance contributions

Net monthly salary: around €1,300 x 12 months

The risks covered by teaching assistants’ health insurance include: healthcare costs, pregnancy and childbirth, hospital stays, workplace injuries and disability (according to the conditions of the social security general regime). Healthcare contributions are included in the gross salary.

However, it is recommended that teaching assistants take out a policy for civil liability (which is an added feature of home insurance policies) and a policy for repatriation expenses.