Working at Centrale Lyon

Centrale de Lyon is a public scientific, cultural and professional institution (EPSCP). The school trains tomorrow's engineers and scientists, and welcomes nearly 3,000 students and 550 permanent or temporary staff.
2 campuses
in Lyon and Saint-Etienne
3 000
students
530
membres du personnel
55% share
share of Teaching-Research staff
2
associations du personnel
40%
de femmes dans des postes de direction
32%
d'agents en télétravail

Recruitment

Centrale Lyon regularly recruits staff for its various departments under the following status:

  • civil servant
  • contractual agent

Opportunities (excluding competitions) are published on the Recruitee platform. Candidates are invited to apply directly on this tool.

 

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aerial view of the Centrale Lyon campus

Because excellence in teaching relies on excellence in research, École Centrale de Lyon is committed to recruiting the best teacher-researchers in France and internationally.

200
industrial contracts per year
15,5M€
in sales
200 items
per year in international journals
23 000 m²
assigned to research

In 2007, Centrale Lyon embarked on a progressive approach to the recruitment, career and mobility of researchers, signing the European Researcher's Charter and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. In July 2020, Centrale Lyon was awarded the HRS4R label for its human resources strategy for researchers. This labeling enables it to extend its visibility at European and international levels, increase the School's attractiveness and pursue its activity in the European Research Framework Program.

To go further, the School's practices have been led to evolve in order to come as close as possible to the recommendations set out in the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The implementation of a policy of Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment (OTM-R) is a key action for improving internal practices.

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The ATER recruitment campaign usually opens between March and April. Please check back at this time for application opportunities.

Administrative, technical and library staff are grouped together under the BIATSS designation.

The competitive examinations for Research and Training Engineers and Technical Staff (ITRF) concern all professional fields and are open to all, subject to diploma requirements. These research and training professions are divided into 8 Branches d'Activité Professionnelle (BAP), comprising 35 professional activity families and 242 job-types.

ITRFs carry out their duties in higher education establishments, major establishments (Collège de France, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Observatoire de Paris, etc.), establishments under the supervision of the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry.), establishments under the supervision of the French Ministry of Education (INRP, CNDP, CNED, ONISEP, CEREQ) or the decentralized departments of the French Ministry of Education (rectorats and academic inspectorates).

Graduation requirements
For external competitive examinations (open to people from outside the civil service as well as to internal candidates), diploma requirements depend on the recruitment category:

  • Category C: minimum level CAP/BEP
  • Category B: minimum level bac to bac+2
  • Category A: bac +2 to doctorate depending on the body

Equivalences may be required.
These major categories are themselves divided into grades, which comprise several steps.

Application 
Registrations for the ITRF recruitment campaign take place in April. Information will be published at that time.
 

To apply as a part-time lecturer, you must directly contact the head lecturer or the teaching department corresponding to your field of expertise. Once you have been pre-selected, you will receive an e-mail inviting you to follow the dematerialized application procedure to be submitted at: https://scol.ec-lyon.fr/

In all cases, interventions can only take place once the application has been submitted and validated.

Recruitment procedures and status of part-time lecturers

Part-time lecturers governed by Decree 87-889 fall into 2 categories: part-time lecturers and part-time temporary staff.

Part-time lecturers
Part-time lecturers are people chosen for their expertise in a particular field who also have a main professional activity.

Those recruited must meet the following two conditions:

  • be under 67 years of age,
  • exercise a principal activity which may consist of:
    • the management of a business,
    • a salaried activity of at least 900 hours of work per year (at least 300 hours when teaching activities are involved),
    • a non-salaried activity (self-employed, self-employed entrepreneur) on condition that they can prove by any means that this activity provides regular means of subsistence.
       

Agent-es temporaires vacataires
Those recruited must meet one of the following two conditions:

- be enrolled in the preparation of a postgraduate diploma
- benefit from a retirement pension, an early retirement allowance or a leave of absence, provided that at the time of termination of their duties they have exercised a principal professional activity outside the Ecole Centrale de Lyon
- They may only provide TD, BE or TP within the limit of 96 hours TD or 64 hours for contract doctoral students.
 

Rate of remuneration

The current rate is €43.50 gross per hour of tutorial work. All hours are paid in TD equivalent hours.

Conversion method (CM, TD, TP)

  • 1 hour lecture equals 1,5 hour equivalent of tutorial work
  • 1 hour of tutorial work is equivalent to 1 hour of equivalent tutorial work
  • 1 hour of practical work is equivalent to 2/3 hour of equivalent tutorial work

 

Pro bono speakers

Pro bono speakers must submit an application to be authorized to speak. They are not remunerated for their interventions.