Margarita Ruiz-Acal Esteban, new technical director of the Provincial Council through internal promotion

The Provincial Council of Seville has announced the hiring of Margarita Ruiz-Acal Esteban as permanent contractual staff for the position of Technical Director, via the internal promotion track. The decision was approved by Resolution 8405/26, dated November 6, and published in the BOP of Seville number 219, dated November 12, 2026, in the announcement of the Public Employee Area with reference BOP-SE-2026-219003. The candidate has passed the selection tests and has the mandatory proposal from the Qualifying Board.

The announcement is based on Article 62 of the Recast Text of the Law of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 30, which mandates the publication of the hiring of permanent contractual staff in local administrations. The position belongs to the contractual staff payroll of the provincial Corporation and is linked to the 2024 Public Employment Offer, under the internal promotion modality for contractual staff.

In recent months, the Provincial Council has accumulated several publications of this type within the same vacancy coverage cycle. Resolution 5925/26, dated August 25, finalized the hiring for a Psychologist position from the 2024 OEP via internal promotion, and Resolution 6190/26, dated September 2, did the same for a Teacher position corresponding to the 2023 OEP.

The position and the selection process

• Position: Technical Director, within the contractual staff payroll of the Provincial Council of Seville.
• Track: internal promotion.
• Originating offer: 2024 Public Employment Offer (internal promotion / contractual staff).
• Selected person: Margarita Ruiz-Acal Esteban, the candidate who passed the corresponding tests.
• Proposing body: the Qualifying Board that judged the tests convened for this purpose.
• Enabling regulation: Article 62 of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee.

The procedure is resolved through the internal promotion system, meaning the position is filled by staff who already maintain a relationship with the Corporation and who access a position of greater technical responsibility after passing the selection process. The publication does not include the number of applicants who applied nor the score obtained, data which remain in the file of the Public Employee Area.

Publication and official data

• Bulletin: BOP of Seville, number 219, Thursday, November 12, 2026.
• Section: I, Local Administration, page 8.
• Official reference: BOP-SE-2026-219003.
• Authorization: Resolution 8405/26, dated November 6.
• Signature: the Secretary General, Fernando Fernández-Figueroa Guerrero, by delegation of the Presidency as recorded in Resolution no. 1221/26, dated March 3.
• Electronic signature date: November 10, 2026.

Deadlines and appeals

The resolution concludes the administrative process; therefore, the announcement details two alternative avenues for appeal:

• Optional appeal for reversal (recurso de reposición) before the Most Excellent President of the Provincial Council of Seville, within one month from the day following the publication of the announcement, in accordance with articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, of October 1.
• Lawsuit before the Social Section of the Court of First Instance of Seville, within two months, according to article 69 of Law 36/2011, of October 10, regulating Social Jurisdiction.

The announcement identifies the hired person by first and last name and with a partially hidden ID number (DNI), and does not detail the specific destination or the functions of the position, which are referred to the Corporation’s list of job positions.

The appointment consolidates a new coverage within the provincial technical structure and closes one of the pending internal promotion vacancies in the workforce for the candidates of the 2024 OEP (Public Employment Offer). For the staff of the Provincial Council, the publication opens the appeals calendar and confirms the result of the selection process; for the remaining candidates of the offer, it marks the pace at which the Corporation is resolving processes inherited from previous years.

Source: BOP of Seville, no. 219, November 12, 2026, section I, Local Administration, p. 8 (official reference: BOP-SE-2026-219003).