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Contracts Sub-Directorate
Secretaría de Turismo · Closes in 12 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Any interested person who meets the job profile and the legal requirements. It can be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreign person whose immigration status allows them to do the job.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Degree holder
Accepted degrees:
- Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública
- Contaduría
- Derecho
- Economía
- Finanzas
Experience: 4 years of experience
In these areas:
- Legal Defense and Procedures
- National Law and Legislation
- Legal Organization
- International Law
- Political Science
- Public Administration
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreign person whose immigration status allows the work.
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime.
- Have the ability to perform in public service.
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of a religion.
- Not be disqualified from public service or have another legal impediment.
- Not fall under the rights suspension cases in Article 38 of the Constitution.
- Declare in writing that there is no conflict of interest and that you are not part of a lawsuit against the Secretaría or another institution.
- Not provide paid services under a fee contract or hold another government job without a compatibility process.
- Meet the job profile with documents that prove it.
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 28 to November 11.
Register on trabajaen.gob.mx between October 28 and November 11, 2026, at no cost. Complete your resume and apply for the position to receive your participation 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:
- Resume review: automatic when you register on trabajaen.gob.mx (from October 28 to November 11, 2026).
- Knowledge exams and skills assessments: starting November 17, 2026. These are in person.
- Document check, experience review and merit assessment: starting November 17, 2026. This part is done remotely.
- Interview: starting November 17, 2026.
- Final decision: starting November 17, 2026.
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 show up to a stage on the date, time or place given, you are disqualified. There is no grace period.
- You cannot change your data in the system after applying. If you do, you will be disqualified.
- Dates may change. The Secretaría will notify you at least two business days in advance.
- If you win and you are a public servant, you must prove you have left your current post.
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:
- Prepare the draft legal opinion on contracts, agreements and other legal instruments.
- Gather the information needed to formalize contracts and agreements.
- Advise administrative units on the legal effects of these instruments.
- Determine the legal framework that applies to each instrument.
- Coordinate the review of call drafts and report key points.
- Keep control and records of signed agreements and arrangements.
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