Auxiliar de Conversación in Valencia: Pay, Dates and Visa

The Ministry's assistant programme gives a monthly allowance of 800 euros (more in some regions) for 14 hours a week in schools. The 2026-2027 window closed on 30 June 2026, so you cannot apply this year. No dates are out for the next call, so keep an eye on the Ministry's programme page and prepare your letters in the meantime.

You can receive a monthly allowance of 800 euros (more in some regions) for 14 hours a week helping in Spanish schools, if you have a degree or are in your second year at university. The 2026-2027 window closed on 30 June 2026, so this guide shows what to prepare for the next call.

What you get and what you do

The 800 euros covers upkeep and accommodation. Pay arrives in arrears, for 7 payments in total, and the first one may slip to the end of December, so land with savings. Your school calendar runs from 1 November 2026 to 31 May 2027.

In class you help with conversation practice next to the teacher. You do not teach groups on your own or cover absent teachers, and the call says this is in no case an employment activity. If you want paid work on top, see Jobs in Valencia for English speakers.

Who can apply

You need a degree, or to be at least in your second year at university, plus nationality or permanent residence in a listed country. The list includes the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

• You must be 18 or over before 1 January 2026, and new candidates must be under 45 on 1 January 2027.
• New applicants need a signed motivation letter and a reference letter dated no earlier than September 2025.
• New applicants also need a negative certificate of sexual offences.
• Participation is limited to four years in total, and renewal is not automatic.

Start with the body in your home country, because the criteria that apply to you come from there.

How to apply

Where you apply depends on your passport. New applicants from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand first contact the Education Office in their home country. New applicants from the UK and Ireland apply through their own country’s body. Renewals from every country go through Profex 2.

If you apply through the Education Office route, the steps after that are:

1. Check the age, degree and nationality rules.
2. Prepare the letters and the certificate.
3. Submit through the Ministry’s electronic office on Profex 2.
4. If a place is allocated, accept or reject it within 2 days.
5. Confirm acceptance before 1 September.

Reject a place and you will not get another offer, though you can apply again next call. Dates for the next call are not out yet, so check the Ministry’s programme page every few weeks. In earlier years the call opened at the beginning of February.

Will Valencia pay you?

Ask before you accept. The Comunidad Valenciana is on the Ministry’s list of participating regions, yet the Conselleria announced it was leaving the programme. The Ministry’s 2026-2027 table lists the Comunidad Valenciana under the Ministry quota, and Ministry-quota assistants are appointed and paid by the Ministry.

Visa for non-EU assistants

Non-EU assistants come on a long-stay visa for training activity, because the immigration regulation counts work as a conversation assistant as a training activity.

e) Realización de actividades formativas. Se entenderá, exclusivamente, por actividades formativas, las comprendidas en los siguientes supuestos: 1.º Funciones como auxiliares de conversación extranjeros en centros educativos españoles inscritos en el Registro estatal de centros docentes no universitarios o en los registros oficiales correspondientes.

e) Carrying out training activities. Training activities shall be understood, exclusively, as those included in the following cases: 1.º Functions as foreign conversation assistants in Spanish schools registered in the State Register of non-university schools or in the corresponding official registers.

BOE · Real Decreto 1155/2024, art. 52.1 e) 1.º

New candidates file the visa application at the consulate two months before the joining date, and ask which visa type it issues. A consulate note calls it a study visa. Flights and visa costs are yours. After you arrive, the TIE card guide and the empadronamiento guide cover the paperwork, and the student visa guide explains the general route.

Health cover

EU assistants need the European Health Insurance Card, and UK assistants the GHIC. Everyone else gets a policy arranged by the Ministry or the region. It does not cover pre-existing chronic illnesses or medicines, so budget for those yourself.

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Not confirmed: Who pays Valencia's assistants. The Comunidad Valenciana is on the Ministry's list of participating regions, yet the Conselleria announced its exit. Ask the Ministry before you accept a place.

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