The Lleida City Council opens the urgent provision of the vacant position of Chief Official

The Lleida City Council has opened the non-definitive provision of the position of Chief Official (Oficial/a Major), vacant and reserved for local Administration civil servants with national qualification, through provisional appointment, service commission, or accumulation. Decree DEC-11195-2026, of October 14, 2026, approves the call and the bases of the procedure, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 201, of October 21, 2026, with the reference BOP-2026_0_201_8745 (pp. 1-6). The deadline for submitting applications is five business days.

The text bears the signature of the mayor, Fèlix Larrosa Piqué, and is framed within the Department of Good Governance, through the HR Selection, Promotion, and Provision Service. The corporation justifies the call due to the need to fill the position “with an urgent and non-deferrable character,” in accordance with article 81.3 of the revised text of the Law of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 30, and under the terms of Royal Decree 128/2018, of March 16, which regulates the legal regime of civil servants with national qualification.

A management position with 74,668.24 euros in specific supplement

The bases describe a management position of free appointment, assigned to the General Secretariat of the Lleida City Council as a collaboration position:

• Position type: management.
• Access group and subgroup: A1.
• Destination supplement level: 30.
• Annual specific supplement: 74,668.24 euros.
• Scale: Local Administration with national qualification, Secretariat subscale, superior category.

The functions are those provided for in Royal Decree 128/2018 and those assigned by the holder of the reserved position, with prior authorization from the mayor. Among the most relevant are the substitution of the head of the General Secretariat in case of vacancy, absence, illness, or abstention, and the exercise of public faith in matters of urban planning, urban management, and urban agreements.

Legal advice and sitting on the board of a municipal company

The position also assumes mandatory and non-mandatory legal advice in six areas: urban planning, urban management, urban agreements, urban intervention and discipline, activity intervention and discipline, and patrimonial liability. Furthermore, the holder must occupy the Secretariat of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Urban Agenda Company of Lleida, and may receive specific assignments of other reserved functions by providence of the general secretary.

Five business days, Catalan test, and suitability report

The procedure establishes the following conditions:

• Requirement: to be a career civil servant of the national qualification scale and prove Catalan language proficiency at level C1; those who do not possess it must pass an eliminatory written and oral test administered by the Consortium for Linguistic Normalization.
• Documentation: national qualification degree, valid ID (DNI), curriculum vitae and accreditation of merits, submitted electronically via the electronic registry.
• Deadline: five business days from the day following the publication of the last of the announcements on the electronic board and in the bulletin.
• Evaluation: general scale of merits, experience in similar positions —with specific scoring for corporations of more than 100,000 inhabitants—, training and, if applicable, an interview.
• Suitability report: prepared by a commission composed of the General Secretariat, the Audit Office (Intervenció) and the Assistant to the General Secretariat.
• Duration: the provisional appointment lasts until the position is permanently filled; the service commission, one year extendable for another; the accumulation, until coverage through other means.

The provisional appointment takes precedence over the service commission and accumulation, which can only be applied if the impossibility of filling the position via the previous method is proven in the file. If no applicant meets the requirements, the call will be declared void. The announcement will be forwarded to the Council of Colleges of Secretaries, Auditors and Treasurers of Local Administration of Catalonia (CSITAL) and Lleida, and an appeal for reversal may be filed against the resolution within one month or, directly, a contentious-administrative appeal within two months.

The filling of this position is particularly sensitive because the Chief Official (Oficial/a Major) assumes functions of public faith and legal advice on urban planning, a subject with a direct impact on licenses, planning, and patrimonial liability in the municipality. The vacancy necessitates resolving the substitution within a few weeks and leaves the area providing legal support to the General Secretariat in the hands of a civil servant with national qualification.

Fuente: Official Bulletin of the Province of Lleida, no. 201, October 21, 2026, Local Administration - City Councils, pp. 1-6 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_201_8745).