Recruitment - Visiting Professors

For the second half - March to June 2026

7 July 2025
15 Sep 2025
Recruitment - Visiting Professors
  • School life

Application deadline: September 15, 2025 -

Each year,ENSA Normandie four guest professors to lead architectural, urban, or landscape design workshops during the second semester of the third year of the bachelor's degree program. These guest professors provide 120 hours of supervision for a group of around twenty students, and also give a masterclass lecture during the semester, which is open to all students at the school.

Please find below the eligibility criteria for applications

Visual: Project workshop by Ariel Genadt – Guest professorENSA Normandie

Expected

Candidates must demonstrate significant professional or academic experience in the field of architectural, urban, and/or landscape design. They are invited to propose a workshop course that is innovative and exploratory in relation to theENSA Normandie bachelor's degree program. The workshop will focus on teaching students design methods and issues that differ from those usually covered at ENSA schools. At least two of the four workshops are expected to be conducted in English.

Conditions

Candidates are required to provide evidence of professional activity in architecture and/or teaching or research duties in a higher education research establishment, either in France, Europe or abroad.

He also needs to be a qualified architect, urban planner or landscape architect.

Terms of the contract

Effective date of recruitment: March 1, 2026 for 6 months.

Remuneration: based on the increased index of the 1st step of the ENSA professors' corps, i.e. a net monthly salary of around €1,970 (€11,820 in total).

Teachers are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.

Superior authority: the director ofENSA Normandie

The teachers recruited are expected to work closely with the semester coordinators to ensure that their teaching fits in with the rest of the semester.

Recruitment procedure

Call for applications: July 7, 2025

Application deadline: September 15, 2025

Selection and audition of candidates: end of September 2025

Successful applications sent to the Ministry of Culture for recruitment: October 10, 2025

Application file (in English or French)

  1. Curriculum Vitae
  2. Book of professional and/or academic productions and publications, if any
  3. Pedagogical note of a maximum of 4 pages with :

A proposal for the project workshop, setting out its theme and method, specifying its organization, a provisional timetable and, if applicable, a provisional budget for visits and the purchase of teaching materials. Please note that it will be possible to run the workshop once a week from March to early June, or twice a week in May and June;

A proposed topic for a Masterclass lecture and a working title;

A note on any scheduling constraints that might affect the organization of the proposed teaching.

Applications should be sent by e-mail as PDF files to: direction@rouen.archi.fr

Documents to be provided at the time of acceptance, if applicable

  • Scan of carte vitale or social security certificate
  • Identification
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Documents attesting to a main activity that provides regular income (pay slips and contracts or business start-up and tax notice or micro-business income statement or balance sheet, etc.).
  • All relevant documents attesting to experience in the discipline being taught
  • État signalétique des services du service national or certificate of participation in the Journée de défense et citoyenne (Defence and Citizenship Day)
  • RIB with IBAN and BIC

For foreign nationals :

All of the above documents or equivalents, in French or in the original language with sworn translation attached;

Additional documents to be sent:

  • Residence permit valid as work permit for non-EU nationals OR work permit ;
  • Document attesting to compliance with national service obligations in the country of origin ;
  • The equivalent of an extract from the criminal record (bulletin No. 2) or, failing that, a sworn statement.