USC offers 174 permanent faculty positions for the year 2026

The University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) published this Friday, November 13, its public employment offer (OEP) for teaching and research staff for the year 2026, consisting of 174 permanent faculty positions. The decision was approved by the university’s Governing Council at its meeting on June 19, 2026, and is detailed in the Resolution of November 6, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) number 218, section III, Other provisions, under the official reference CVE-DOG: 8emcxmo7-vjp5-74k4-nsh5-dgmatfshpt85.

How the 174 positions are distributed

The offer is organized into two access systems. 124 positions are offered through the open call, while the remaining 50 are for internal promotion. The details appear in the annex of the resolution:

Open call, contracted staff: 53 permanent labor faculty positions.
Open call, university teaching bodies: 69 university associate professor positions and 2 university professor positions.
Internal promotion: 50 university professor positions.

Of the total 124 open call positions, 19 are reserved for the incorporation of doctoral research staff: 9 permanent labor faculty, 9 university associate professors, and 1 university professor. This reservation complies with the obligation established in article 71.1 of the Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, on the university system (LOSU), which requires at least 15% of the offered positions to be allocated to the entry of research staff with I3 or R3 certification.

Processing and regulatory framework

The resolution is based on a broad block of regulations: article 70 of Legislative Royal Decree 5/2015, which approves the revised text of the Law on the Basic Statute of the Public Employee; article 48 of Law 2/2015, of April 29, on public employment in Galicia; article 20 of Law 31/2022 on the general state budgets, extended for 2026, and article 37.un of Law 4/2025, of December 23, on the general budgets of the Autonomous Community of Galicia for 2026. The USC statutes were approved by Decree 14/2014, of January 30.

The text also details the administrative itinerary prior to publication:

Negotiation and agreement at the PDI Table on June 15, 2026.
Favorable report from the Commission for Academic Organization and Faculty on the same date.
Agreement of the Governing Council on June 19, 2026.
Authorization from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration of the Xunta de Galicia on November 5, 2026.

The resolution is signed by the Rector of the USC, with delegation of signature in the Resolution of October 5, 2026 (published in the DOG of October 14), to Pablo Taboada Antelo, Vice-Rector for Faculty and Teaching Innovation.

Disability reservation and upcoming calls

The resolution indicates that the 5% reserve corresponding to this offer, provided for in Article 59 of the recast text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees and in Article 48 of Law 2/2015, will be materialized in the calls for applications published in execution of the approved offer.

Furthermore, the competitions derived from this OEP will be published in the Diario Oficial de Galicia and, if applicable, in the Boletín Oficial del Estado, and will be executed within the maximum period fixed in Article 70 of the Basic Statute of Public Employees. The university refers to the website of the Servizo de Planificación de PDI of the USC, in the section for vacancy calls, to consult the documentation and the acts derived from the processes.

An offer in a context of budgetary restriction

The resolution itself justifies the positions as responding to permanent human resource needs in the teaching and research field with budgetary allocation that cannot be covered with current staff, “within the global context of budgetary restriction affecting all public administrations.” According to the text, the human resources planning of the USC is oriented towards the attention of priority functions, the correct dimensioning of the volume of staff, and promoting the stabilization of its teaching and research personnel.

The PDI offer shares the publication date with that of the technical, management, and administration and services personnel of the same university for 2026, also approved on November 6 and published in the same issue of the DOG.

The publication of this offer is relevant for new research personnel and for departments throughout Galicia: it fixes the volume of positions that will be called in the coming months and generally guarantees a minimum access quota for those who prove I3 or R3 certificates, a direct route to labor stabilization in the Galician university system.

Source: Diario Oficial de Galicia, no. 218, November 13, 2026, section III, pp. 56880-56882 (official reference: CVE-DOG: 8emcxmo7-vjp5-74k4-nsh5-dgmatfshpt85).