Job description
The University of Groningen is a research university with a strong international outlook. It is socially engaged and deeply connected to its local community. Researchers and lecturers across a wide range of disciplines pursue their work with a passion for scholarship. The university empowers everyone to achieve their full potential, actively fostering the talent, ambition, and achievements of both students and staff. Quality has been central to the university for 400 years—and with great…
success: it consistently ranks among the top 100 universities worldwide.
Faculty and Degree Programme
The Faculty of Arts builds upon a four-century-old tradition. Our mission is to be an ambitious, leading faculty in education and high-quality research, characterized by a strong international orientation and deep roots in the Northern Netherlands. We create and share knowledge through excellence in teaching and research. We educate over 5,000 Dutch and international students within a modern, broad-based, and international institution, producing future-oriented, articulate, and intellectually independent graduates.
What are you going to do?
Je bereidt taalvaardigheidscursussen Frans voor, overziet deze, organiseert ze en geeft ze volgens de methode die is ontwikkeld door het Language Learning Team van het ETC, zoals beschreven in onze missieverklaring. Daarnaast werk je nauw samen met andere collega's binnen de opleiding Europese Talen en Culturen, aan de verdere ontwikkeling van onze aanpak.
Requirements
- You have a command of the French language at the C1/C2 level.
- You hold a master’s degree in the humanities, e.g., in linguistics, literature, cultural studies, or history, or a Master of Education.
- Ideally, you have relevant experience in an academic FLE context:
- teaching courses up to the B1 level
- teaching through tasks, following usage-based and CLIL principles
- creating evidence-based and research-based teaching materials based on the CEFR.
- using digital tools to enhance your face-to-face teaching experience
- organizing virtual exchanges is a plus.
- You enjoy working both independently and as part of a team and producing high-quality work.
- Your strengths include pedagogical creativity, team spirit, autonomy, entrepreneurship, communication, and efficient organization.
- You can communicate and participate in meetings in English (CEFR C1 level in reading, listening, writing, and speaking).
The interviews will most likely take place on 15 and 16 October 2026.
Conditions of employment
Fixed-term contract: This is a temporary position, due to sick leave replacement.
What can you expect from us?
- 232 vacation hours per year, based on a 38-hour workweek (1.0 FTE). You can also work more or fewer hours in exchange for more or fewer free hours. For example, with a 40-hour workweek, you save 96 extra free hours, and with a 36-hour workweek, you lose 96 hours.
- End-of-year bonus of 8.3% and 8% holiday allowance.
- Extensive opportunities for personal and professional development.
Employer
University of Groningen
At the University of Groningen (UG), researchers from all fields of academia and technology are working on academic challenges and societal questions. Lecturers prepare their students for meaningful careers within or outside the academic world. Interdisciplinary research and teaching, sharing of knowledge, collaboration with businesses, government institutions, and societal organizations are aspects that are of the utmost importance to this European top university. The UG aims to be an open academic community with an inclusive and safe working climate that invites you to add your value.
Department
Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is a large and dynamic faculty located in the heart of the city of Groningen. More than 5,500 students and 900 staff work every day at the frontiers of knowledge. The Faculty offers a diverse range of academic programmes, with 16 Bachelor's programmes and over 40 Master's programmes. With its strong international orientation, the Faculty conducts research in fields including archaeology, cultural studies, history, international relations, journalism, literature, and linguistics.
Students in the BA European Languages and Cultures (ELC) programme choose a specialization track—Language and Society, Culture and Literature, or Politics and Society—combined with one of eight languages. In addition to German, these include Dutch as a Second Language (NT2), English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The language programmes build on the expertise of a motivated international team of language instructors, ensuring that language acquisition is fully integrated with learning about the target language and culture. At ELC, we employ effective, research-based teaching methods and the latest technological innovations to support language learning and to strengthen our students' profiles as future language ambassadors and cultural mediators for Europe.
Additional information
Do you have any questions or need more information?
Questions about the content of the job?
Anja Schüppert (Associate Professor): A.Schueppert@rug.nl
Questions about your application process?
Sanna Buurke (Head of Department): M.S.D.Buurke@rug.nl