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Standards Liaison
Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural · Ciudad de México · Closed
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Any interested person who meets the education and experience requirements of the post and the legal requirements can apply. Foreign nationals must have an immigration status that allows them to do the job.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Degree holder (titled)
Accepted degrees:
- Ciencias Agropecuarias
- Agronomía
- Biología
- Veterinaria y Zootecnia
- Ciencias Forestales
- Ingeniería y Tecnología
Experience: 2 years of experience
In these areas:
- Life Sciences
- Plant Biology (Botany)
- Agricultural Sciences
- Agricultural Engineering
- Agronomy
- Animal Production
- Forest Science
- Horticulture
- and 6 more
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreign national whose immigration status allows the job
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime
- Be fit to perform duties in the public service
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of any religion
- Not be disqualified from public service and have no other legal impediment
- Not have a final sentence for certain serious violent crimes, such as crimes against life, bodily integrity, sexual freedom or family violence
- Not be declared a delinquent debtor of alimony payments
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 14 to October 27.
Register only on the Trabajaen portal from the publication date, no later than October 27, 2026. The system checks whether your information matches the profile and gives you a participation folio or a rejection folio.
To register you need your CURP and RFC, a TrabajaEn account and an up-to-date TrabajaEn CV. When you register for this job you get a folio number: keep it, you need it at every stage.
3 Exams and documents
The stages of the contest:
- I. Résumé review (applicant registration): October 14 to 27, 2026
- II. Knowledge exams and skills tests: October 30, 2026 to January 11, 2027
- III. Experience review and merit assessment: October 30, 2026 to January 11, 2027
- IV. Interviews: October 30, 2026 to January 11, 2027
- V. Final decision: October 30, 2026 to January 11, 2027
Minimum score: Examen de conocimientos técnicos: 70 para Enlace y Departamento, 75 para Subdirección y 80 para Dirección. Puntaje mínimo de aptitud en el sistema general: 75 sobre 100.
Look on TrabajaEn for the topics of the knowledge exam of your job, and check your messages often: that is where your exam and document-check appointments arrive.
Keep in mind:
- If you do not attend, do not bring documents, or do not take or pass a stage at the day, place and time given in Trabajaen, you are discarded with no responsibility for SENASICA. You have 15 minutes of grace time.
- Documents with handwritten signatures must be shown as originals for checking, and scanned files must be PDFs that are legible and complete.
- Skills tests are not a reason for discard. Passing results on the general knowledge exam are valid for one year.
- Finalists who are not selected join the agency's reserve list for one year. The competition can be cancelled or declared void.
Documents for the document check (tick them when you have them):
4 Interview and result
The interview is with the Selection Technical Committee: prepare examples of your experience in the duties of the job. Then the committee chooses the winner. If you are a finalist and do not win, you join the candidate reserve for the job for one year.
The duties of the job:
- Supervise certification bodies, verification units and testing laboratories.
- Verify activities at federal inspection points and animal health inspection offices.
- Analyze phytosanitary certification and authorization processes.
- Communicate technical elements to create or change phytosanitary rules.
- Supervise certification of facilities, lots and services.
- Organize activities of the annual supervision visit program.
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