Barbate announces open competitive examination for three General Administration Technician positions

The Barbate City Council has announced an open competitive examination to fill three positions for General Administration Technician, classified under group A, subgroup A1, of its civil service staff. The call and the regulatory bases were approved by the Local Government Board in an ordinary session on September 8, 2026, and are published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz no. 190, dated October 1, 2026 (announcement no. 312.639). Applicants will have a period of 20 business days to submit their applications.

The three positions belong to the Public Employment Offer of 2023, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz no. 243, dated December 26, 2023. The approval of the call is supported by the powers delegated by Mayoral Decree no. 2026-2418, dated August 14, 2026. The bases will be published in the BOP, in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía, and the announcement of the call in the Official State Gazette, the latter publication from which the application period is calculated.

Characteristics of the positions

• Three vacant career civil servant positions in the staff of the Barbate City Council.
• Group A, subgroup A1; General Administration Scale, Technical Subscale.
• Selection system: open competitive examination, in accordance with article 61.6 of Legislative Royal Decree 5/2015, which approves the revised text of the Law of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee.
• Required qualification: degree in Law, Business Sciences, Political Science, or Human Resources; equivalent qualifications are accepted.

Deadline and submission of applications

• Twenty business days starting from the day following the publication of the call in the Official State Gazette.
• Applications, addressed to the Mayor’s Office-Presidency, shall be submitted in accordance with article 16 of Law 39/2015, using the model appearing as Annex I of the bases.
• Once the deadline has expired, the Mayor’s Office-Presidency will issue a resolution within a maximum period of one month with the provisional list of admitted and excluded candidates, which will be published in the BOP.
• Excluded applicants will have ten business days to rectify their applications, in accordance with article 68 of Law 39/2015.

Selection process and qualifying board

• First test: two eliminatory exercises, a test of 80 questions plus 10 reserve questions, and the written development of a topic to be chosen from two.
• Second test: resolution of two practical cases related to the syllabus of Annex II.
• Minimum score of 5 points in each exercise to continue in the process.
• The Qualifying Board will be composed of a presidency, four members, and a secretariat, all of whom are career civil servants.
• The constitution of the body and the performance of the two tests have been set for November 18, 2026, at 10:00 AM, in the Assembly Hall under the Plaza.

Appointment and appeals regime

• Applicants who pass the process will be appointed as career civil servants, and the appointment will be published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz.
• The period to take office will be one month from the day following the notification of the resolution.
• An optional appeal for reversal may be filed against the rules within one month, or a contentious-administrative appeal within two months.

The call reinforces the technical staff of the Barbate City Council with three level A1 positions and opens a new opportunity for candidates for the upper subgroup of the General Administration. The process, with tests scheduled for November 18, 2026, adds to the council’s pending public employment offer and requires interested parties to stay alert for the publication of the announcement in the Official State Gazette, which marks the effective start of the application period.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, no. 190, October 1, 2026, Local Administration, p. 5 (official reference: announcement no. 312,639).