Public Service moves the Subordinate Personnel exam, postponed due to rains, to November 15

The General Directorate of the Civil Service of the Government of the Canary Islands has designated Sunday, November 15, 2026, at 10:00 AM, as the new date for the single exercise of the selective tests to enter the Professional Group of Subordinate Personnel, intended for the specific reserve for people with mild, moderate, or borderline intellectual disabilities. The measure is adopted via Resolution of November 9, 2026, signed by the Director General Francisco Javier Rodríguez del Castillo, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (Boletín Oficial de Canarias) no. 228, of November 13, 2026, section II (reference BOC-A-2026-228-3944).

A process of twenty positions and three employment offers

The selection process was convened by Resolution of July 20, 2026 (BOC no. 153, of 7.31.2026) to fill career civil servant positions in the General Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands through an open call. The convened positions total twenty (20), with code E711, and are distributed as follows:

• 9 positions from the 2023 Public Employment Offer, approved by Decree 439/2023, of December 18.
• 7 positions from the 2024 Public Employment Offer, approved by Decree 207/2024, of December 16.
• 4 positions from the 2025 Public Employment Offer, approved by Decree 188/2025, of December 15.

The final list of admitted and excluded persons was approved by Resolution of October 28, 2026 (BOC no. 220, of 11.4.2026), following the correction process open between October 14 and 27. The location, date, and time of the exercise had been initially determined by Resolution of October 16, 2026 (BOC no. 211, of 10.22.2026), which set it for November 8, 2026, at 10:00 AM.

The rain alert that forced the suspension of the test

The resolution now published justifies the change based on the warnings from the State Meteorological Agency for November 8, 2026, which affected the Canarian archipelago, and the Rain Alert Declaration issued by the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands. Given this situation, the General Directorate of the Civil Service issued an urgent communiqué on November 7, 2026, disseminated on the selection process website, in which it agreed to “suspend the performance of the selective test for the Professional Group of Subordinates (Specific Reserve for Intellectual Disability), which was scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, November 8, 2026.”

The official text recalls that the call requires respecting a minimum period of ten business days between the announcement of the day, time, and place of the exercise and its actual celebration, which explains the advance notice with which the new date is published.

New call, same venues, and the same time

The resolution nullifies the date stated in the third point of the Resolution of October 16, 2026, and summons the admitted applicants on November 15, 2026, at 10:00 hours, in both provinces. The venues for the event remain as follows:

• Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: IES Chapatal, calle Unamuno, s/n, 38007 Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
• Province of Las Palmas: IES Profesor Juan Pulido Castro, Avenida del Cabildo Insular, 36, 35200 Telde.

Each applicant must appear at the venue corresponding to the examination province selected in their application for participation, providing their National Identity Document or any other document that reliably proves their identity. All other provisions of the resolution of October 16 remain in the same terms.

Regulatory Framework and Publicity

The decision is adopted in the exercise of the powers conferred by article 76.1.f) of the Organic Regulation of the Ministry of Presidency, Public Administrations, Justice and Security, approved by Decree 108/2024, of July 31. The resolution will be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands and on the website of the General Directorate of the Civil Service, the channel through which the suspension was already disseminated.

The postponement directly affects people with mild, moderate, or borderline intellectual disabilities competing for the twenty positions of the Professional Group of Subordinate Personnel: they now have barely two days from the official publication to confirm their venue and present themselves on Sunday, November 15, at 10:00 hours. This call is one of those with the highest social following among the specific reserves of Canarian public employment, therefore the change of date forces applicants to reorganize travel and preparation within a very short timeframe.

Source: Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, no. 228, of November 13, 2026, section II. Authorities and personnel, pages 41249-41250 (official reference: BOC-A-2026-228-3944).