Seven social educator positions at the Provincial Council of Alicante via competitive examination

The Provincial Council of Alicante has announced seven social educator positions—six reserved for the open competitive examination track and one for the internal promotion track via a competitive merit-based process—and has approved the creation of a job bank in this category. The agreement was adopted by the Governing Board in an ordinary session on November 6, 2026, and the guidelines are published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante (BOP) No. 215, dated November 11, 2026, in announcement 8746 of Section III (Local Administration).

The positions are vacancies within the provincial corporation’s staff, are reserved for career civil servants, and are included in the 2025 Public Employment Offer. They are classified under the Special Administration Scale, Technical Subscale, Middle Technician Class, and are endowed with the emoluments of classification subgroup A2 as provided for in Article 76 of the Recast Text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees Law, approved by Legislative Royal Decree 5/2015, of October 30.

The call for applications is approved using the powers delegated to the Governing Board by the President’s Resolution number 3,402, of August 4, 2023 (BOP No. 155, of August 11, 2023). The first guideline specifies that any internal promotion position that remains vacant will be added to the open track. The open track job bank will serve to cover needs within the Council itself and, additionally, in its autonomous bodies, dependent entities, and the province’s city councils adhered to the corporation’s Framework Agreement for sharing job banks.

University degree and two years of seniority as requirements

• Open track: Diploma in Teaching, Social Education, Social Work, Sociology, or Pedagogy, or a Degree in Psychopedagogy, or an equivalent qualification from the current university system.
• Internal promotion: be a career civil servant of the Provincial Council of Alicante and be classified in subgroup C1, with a minimum seniority of two years in the group, scale, or category.
• Spanish nationality—or that of a European Union member state under the terms of the second guideline—, functional capacity, and an age between sixteen and compulsory retirement.
• Examination fee: 30.00 euros; applicants from the internal promotion track are exempt as it does not constitute a new definitive entry of personnel.

Ten business days from publication in the BOE

The deadline for submitting applications is ten business days counting from the day following the publication of the announcement-extract of the call in the Official State Gazette (BOE), and the administrative effects of the call take place from that same publication. The extract will also be disseminated in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana.

The application must be submitted electronically through the Provincial Council’s electronic office, using a digital certificate or DNIe: the open entry track via the personnel procedure and the internal promotion track via the employees and public officials section. Application for one track excludes the other. The provisional lists of admitted and excluded candidates will be resolved within a maximum period of one month and will allow for corrections during ten business days.

Two eliminatory exercises and a competition phase

• Open entry: theoretical test of 100 questions (topics 1 to 60, a minimum of 100 minutes, scored from 0 to 10 points with five required to pass), with a penalty of one-third for each wrong answer.
• Open entry: theoretical-practical test on topics 13 to 60, lasting up to two hours and thirty minutes, valued from 0 to 10 with a minimum of five.
• Internal promotion: theoretical test of 60 questions (topics 1 to 25, at least 60 minutes, from 0 to 30 points and fifteen to pass), with a penalty of one-fifth per error.
• Internal promotion: theoretical-practical test from 0 to 30 points and a competition phase of up to 30 points (professional experience up to 20, previous passing of selection processes up to 6, and other merits up to 4).

The Technical Evaluation Commission will be composed of five career civil servants —presidency, three members, and secretary— and will be located in the Tucumán Building, calle Tucumán nº 8, Alicante. Between the end of one exercise and the start of the next, between two and forty-five calendar days must elapse, and the tests may be taken in Valencian or Spanish.

The call for applications represents one of the largest incorporations of social services personnel announced in the province and opens a dual path: external access for university graduates and the promotion of the Provincial Council’s own staff. The resulting job bank, extensible to city councils adhered to the framework agreement, will also allow for covering substitutions and temporary needs throughout the province.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante (BOP), nº 215, of November 11, 2026, Section III. Local Administration, page 1 (official reference: announcement 8746/2026).