Board and departments

Based on the needs and strengths of the faculty environment, the general management proposes and regulates the allocation of resources, while identifying and supporting structural projects with a view to continuously improving the service provided to staff and users. To this end, it engages in close management dialogue with the various departments, training departments, and research laboratories. It is responsible for the organization, operation, and effective coordination of faculty services. It coordinates the network of departmental administrative managers.

It ensures the financial sustainability of the faculty's projects and activities and monitors performance indicators using the institution's expertise and tools. It organizes and monitors faculty bodies and conducts social dialogue in close collaboration with the dean. It provides legal support to departments and units. It participates in the implementation of the health and safety prevention policy within the faculty. It defines the internal communication system and ensures the smooth flow of information. In order to maintain the consistency of the institution's project and promote interaction between different professions, the general management is in regular contact with the general management of services and the departments at university level.

Contact

Executive Director: Stéphane Paccard
Deputy Executive Director: Catherine Hocquinghen

4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris
Tél : 01 44 27 73 03 / Courriel

The Training and Student Life Department is responsible for implementing the faculty's guidelines on initial and continuing education, schooling, and student life. It oversees, manages, and monitors the training programs offered. It acts as the point of contact for the training departments in implementing schooling and training program management procedures and regulations. It supports them in establishing national and international partnerships. It monitors and disseminates regulations governing higher education. It is responsible for supporting students, particularly those with disabilities, facilitating their educational integration, guidance, professional integration, and international mobility.

The department contributes to the implementation of various forms of social assistance depending on the student's situation (monitoring, one-off or annual assistance, and referral to appropriate structures). It promotes “lifelong learning” by enabling employees, individuals, self-employed persons, and job seekers to acquire new skills as part of their professional and/or personal projects. It participates in the development of the information system in the field of education. It encourages and supports student initiatives and assists students in carrying out cultural or entrepreneurial projects.

At the faculty level, the research and development department contributes to the development of the university's research and innovation policy, participates in the drafting and monitoring of the objectives and resources contract, coordinates and supervises the functioning of research support, contributes to the quality and specifications of management tools and, more generally, implements the university's research and innovation policy within the faculty. It receives support from the university's research and innovation department in developing contractual activity, particularly in terms of European projects, for both research and development activities.

The human resources mission is divided between the faculties and the university in order to promote a cross-functional and common human resources policy while maintaining the quality and proximity of service provided to staff. Within this framework, the faculty's human resources department is responsible for strategic management and human resources management within its scope.

The Finance and Purchasing Department (DFA) is directly involved in budget preparation, monitoring, and analysis of its implementation. It prepares and implements the allocation of financial resources to the various components, departments, or units within the Faculty and redeploys funds in accordance with the Dean's policy. Responsible for monitoring cash flows in terms of revenue and expenditure, it provides support to the structures and coordinates the network of financial managers on a daily basis. Finally, it contributes to the definition of the purchasing policy and its implementation, assisting the structures in drawing up their purchasing plans and monitoring the financial execution of contracts.

The Logistics and Maintenance Department implements the resources and means dedicated to the operation and maintenance of the real estate portfolio, the security and safety of the premises, logistical support, and the management of the faculty's sites and campuses. Its scope of action covers the faculty's seven sites, totaling 400,000 m² of premises. It oversees the operation of the Pierre and Marie Curie campus, coordinates and provides support to external sites. It also acts as project manager for certain works and project supervisor for interventions within its scope.

Information systems management at Sorbonne University has been divided between the university and faculty levels to ensure local service while harmonizing and developing the information system as a whole. The Information Systems Department (ISD) is responsible for helping to define the university's IS policy and ensuring its implementation. The faculty IT department provides local assistance to users, manages the IT infrastructure, and coordinates IT support structures within the various departments. It also acts as a link between the business departments and the IT department's shared services center.

The Occupational Risk Prevention Department (SPRP) is under the responsibility of the prevention advisor for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Its objective is to develop an occupational risk prevention policy that is as close as possible to users, taking into account the diversity of risks present in the faculty as well as regulatory obligations and developments in the field of prevention.

Its scope of action covers the Paris region (Pierre and Marie Curie campus, Saint-Cyr campus, Institute of Astrophysics, Henri Poincaré Institute) as well as the provinces, with three marine stations located in Banyuls, Roscoff, and Villefranche-sur-Mer.

The department's main responsibilities are:

• Coordinate and lead the network of prevention stakeholders (prevention assistants, laser safety officers, radiation protection advisors),
• Support and assist all faculty units in the risk assessment process (assistance with EVRP software, accident analysis, job studies, prevention visits, etc.),
• Manage hazardous chemical/biological/radioactive waste (advice to laboratories, on-call duty at the waste storage area, scheduling waste collection with service providers),
• Ensuring the monitoring of certain regulatory controls with accredited bodies,
• Arranging for the disinfection and pest control of premises (pests),
• Contributing to the work of the F3SCT.