French Programming Assistant

This position is for a French Programming Program Assistant who will coordinate peer-led French language learning activities. Responsibilities include planning and facilitating cultural visits, volunteer placements, and conversation events, while tracking participation and preparing reports. Applicants must be full-time McGill students with excellent French proficiency and advanced English communication skills.

• Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Develop and plan French language programming in collaboration with the team, scheduling events at opportune times and liaising with on- and off-campus partners in the planning process.
• Reach out to community organizations to organize activities during which students will be able to practice their French conversational skills.
• Act as a facilitator during events, encouraging and prompting students as needed to promote active participation and French language learning, and guiding them where necessary.
• Track participation. Reach out to other partners to collaborate on promotion and sharing best (better) practices.
• Collaborate with CL&E’s Communications team on the promotion of French-language events, determining effective channels of promotion and collaborative promotional opportunities with partners, including McGill LearnFrench website.
• Liaise with students and university organizations for outreach, information exchange and collaboration
• diplomatic communications and relationship-building.
• Track results and prepare a final activity report, detailing number of participants and number of students hours implemented during the period.
• Perform other duties and tasks, as required.