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Head of the Department of Public Tenders, Competitions and Invitations
Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural · Ciudad de México · Closes in 11 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Mexican citizens with full civil rights, or foreign nationals whose immigration status allows them to do the job. They must meet the education and experience required for the position.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Finished or pasante (completed all coursework, degree not yet obtained)
Accepted degrees:
- Contaduría
- Administración
- Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública
- Derecho
Experience: 3 years of experience
In these areas:
- Auditing
- National Law and Legislation
- Public Administration
- Political Science
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full civil 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 the duties of the job.
- Not belong to the clergy or be a religious minister.
- Not be barred from public service.
- Not have a final sentence for certain serious crimes against life, bodily integrity, sexual freedom or safety, or for family or political violence against women.
- Not be registered as a delinquent family-support debtor.
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 28 to November 12.
Register on the trabajaen.gob.mx website, complete your CV and accept the rules to get your participation folio. Then check the messages in your account to learn when and where to bring documents and take the assessments.
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. Registration and CV review: October 28 to November 12, 2026.
- II. Knowledge exams and skills assessments: November 20, 2026.
- III. Document review, experience assessment and merit review: November 20, 2026.
- IV. Interview with the Selection Committee: November 25, 2026.
- V. Final decision: November 30, 2026. Dates are tentative.
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:
- Only the three highest-scoring candidates, in order of ranking, move on to the interview.
- Passing exam results are valid for one year. You cannot give them up.
- Candidates cannot ask to reschedule evaluations. Not attending is grounds for disqualification.
- The CV must match the documents. If it does not, those documents will not be counted.
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:
- Check that purchase documents are clear and follow the rules.
- Schedule public tenders, grouping goods and services with similar features.
- Design reports to check that suppliers meet their obligations.
- Check that purchases are reported on the procurement portal and the transparency portal.
- Review contracts based on approved models and include new rules.
- Give contracts to suppliers early enough for them to be formalized.
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