Valdepeñas announces a merit-based competition for head of sports facilities

The Valdepeñas City Council has approved the rules for the merit-based competition to fill the position of Head of Sports Facilities Group, identified by number 75 and assigned to the Ciudad de Valdepeñas Sports Complex. The call is approved by Mayoral Decree 2026-8246, dated October 8, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ciudad Real (BOP) number 195, dated October 9, 2026, under announcement number 3270.

The call is framed within the principle of equal treatment between men and women as set forth in Article 14 of the Spanish Constitution and is developed in accordance with Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 30, which approves the Revised Text of the Law of the Basic Statute of Public Employees, Organic Law 3/2007, of March 22, and Law 12/2010, of November 18, on equality between women and men of Castilla-La Mancha.

The process is directed exclusively at the permanent contractual staff of the Valdepeñas City Council and is resolved by a merit competition, not by competitive examination. The position is listed in the municipal Job Position List (RPT) and its descriptive sheet is attached as Annex I of the announcement.

A single position in the citizen services area

• Designation: Head of Sports Facilities Group, position number 75.
• Assignment: citizen services area, sports services department.
• Destination: Ciudad de Valdepeñas Sports Complex.
• Group and classification: C2, AE scale, special services subscale, trade personnel class.
• Working day: ordinary continuous morning schedule, with high availability outside of the usual working day.
• Additional requirement: B driving license.
• Position valuation: destination supplement level 18 and specific supplement of 375 points.
• Number of homogeneous positions: four.

Permanent contractual staff of the Valdepeñas City Council who belong to the reference group or subgroup and meet the RPT requirements may apply. It is required to have remained in the current permanent position for at least two years, except for legal exceptions, and those in any administrative situation may participate except those with final suspensions. The announcement specifies that public employees holding position number 15, Sports Facilities Official, may fill this position.

Scoring scale: up to 100 points between seniority, training, and memorandum

• Seniority: maximum 50 points. Experience as a non-temporary public employee of the City Council is valued at 2 points per year in the same scale, subscale, class, and group, and 1 point per year in others; seniority as a temporary laborer or interim employee is computed at 0.50 points per year, with a cap of 20 points.
• Training: maximum 10 points. 0.010 points are granted per hour for transversal courses (up to 5 points) and 0.020 points per hour for courses directly related to the position (up to 10 points), with a maximum seniority of 15 years and a minimum of 10 hours per course.
• Report: maximum 40 points, with a minimum of 20 to be considered fit.

The report must be submitted along with the application and will focus on the Ciudad de Valdepeñas Sports Complex. It shall have a cover page, index, 30 A4 format pages, and a maximum of 10 pages of annexes, and it will be defended in a public act before the evaluation commission. Guiding topics include access control, maintenance of facilities and buildings, equipment and machinery, personnel organization, risk prevention, and the organization of federated and non-federated sporting events.

Electronic applications and evaluation commission

Applications shall be submitted exclusively through the municipal electronic office, https://valdepenas.sedelectronica.es, using Cl@ve, electronic ID (DNIe), or electronic certificate, and must be electronically signed. The deadline is fifteen business days starting from the day following the publication of the announcement in the BOP.

The evaluation commission will consist of a presidency, three members, and a secretariat, with voice and vote, and may hold a maximum of five sessions. The legal representation of the workers will be invited to participate as an observer. In the event of a tie, the following order will be observed: the score of the report, the seniority in section A.1, and the seniority in section A.2.

Claims, job bank, and appeals

The list of contestants will be displayed on the electronic office and, if applicable, on the notice board for ten business days to file claims. Subsequently, the final award proposal will be formulated. The timeframe for incorporation into the new destination will be determined by the needs of the affected departments.

A job bank will be established in accordance with municipal regulations and Article 48 of Law 4/2011, of March 10, on the Public Employee of Castilla-La Mancha. Against the rules, which exhaust the administrative route, a motion for reconsideration may be filed within one month before the Mayor’s Office, and a contentious-administrative appeal within two months before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Ciudad Real.

The call for applications opens an internal promotion route for the permanent contractual staff of the Valdepeñas City Council and reinforces the coverage of a key position in the maintenance and organization of municipal sports facilities, with a scoring system that prioritizes seniority and the technical report over the theoretical test.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Ciudad Real, no. 195, of October 9, 2026, section I (Local Administration, City Councils), page 25 (official reference: announcement number 3270; CVE 5FD/vv/LYP0nBVPmq5Ko).