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Head of the Historical Archive Department
Secretaría de Cultura · Ciudad de México · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Anyone interested can apply if they meet the job profile and the call's requirements. They must be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreigner whose immigration status allows them to do the job (FM3).
Education: Bachelor's degree · Holds a degree
Accepted degrees:
- Antropología
- Ciencias Sociales
- Artes
- Archivonomía
- Humanidades
- Computación e Informática
Experience: 3 years of experience
In these areas:
- Social anthropology
- Historical demography
- Economic geography
- Auxiliary sciences of history
- General history
- Political science
- Statistics
- Social change and development
- Social groups
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreigner whose immigration status allows the job.
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime.
- Be fit to perform the duties of public service.
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of any religion.
- Not be disqualified from public service or have any other legal impediment.
- Not have a final sentence for certain intentional crimes (against life, bodily integrity, sexual freedom and safety, psychosexual development, family violence, political violence against women, or violation of sexual privacy), and not be declared a delinquent alimony debtor.
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 21 to November 4.
Register at www.trabajaen.gob.mx between October 21 and November 4, 2026 to get your participation folio, and accept the rules. Check the messages in your TrabajaEn account and bring your documents on the date, time and place they tell you.
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:
- Stage I. Candidate registration and résumé review on TrabajaEn: October 21 to November 4, 2026.
- Request to revalidate scores: November 4 to 6, 2026.
- Stage II. Technical knowledge exam, general federal public administration exam and skills assessment: from November 9, 2026 to January 19, 2027.
- Stage III. Document review, experience evaluation and merit assessment: same calendar (November 9, 2026 to January 19, 2027).
- Stage IV. Interview by the Selection Technical Committee: same calendar.
- Stage V. Final decision of the selection process: same calendar.
Minimum score: 70 puntos de 100 posibles
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:
- Dates may change. TrabajaEn will notify you at least two business days in advance.
- If you miss an assessment or do not bring the original documents on the set date and time, you are disqualified. Copies are not accepted in place of originals.
- Finalists who do not win join the job's reserve list for one year.
- If you score below 70 on the technical knowledge exam, you are disqualified. Dates are not rescheduled at applicants' request.
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:
- Keep inventories, catalogs and search tools of the collections up to date.
- Control the loan, consultation and copying of materials requested by users.
- Write articles on historical, social, cultural and technical topics.
- Propose materials for exhibitions and publications.
- Check the environmental conditions where documents are stored.
- Diagnose the physical state of materials and propose which go to conservation.
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