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Labor Incentives Sub-Directorate
Secretaría de Educación Pública · Ciudad de México · Closes in 12 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Mexican citizens with full civil rights, or foreigners whose immigration status allows the job. They must have the schooling and experience the job asks for.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Degree holder (must show título or cédula profesional)
Accepted degrees:
- Derecho
- Administración
Experience: 6 years of experience
In these areas:
- Political Science
- Public Administration
- Economic Sciences
- Management and Development of Human Resources
- Legal Sciences and Law
- National Law and Legislation
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full civil rights, or a foreigner whose immigration status allows the job.
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime.
- Be fit to perform duties in public service.
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of any religion.
- Not be disqualified from public service or have other legal impediments.
- Not be declared a delinquent alimony debtor.
- If you win, do not hold another federal public administration job without a compatibility opinion.
- Original documents must be authentic.
- Take and pass the required evaluations.
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 28 to November 11.
Register at www.trabajaen.gob.mx from October 28 to November 11, 2026. The portal will give you a folio number that you must keep for the whole process.
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: Automatic résumé review on TrabajaEn, from October 28 to November 11, 2026.
- Stage II: Knowledge exams (technical and general federal public administration) and Skills Assessment, from November 16, 2026 to January 25, 2027.
- Stage III: Experience assessment, merit assessment and document review, from November 16, 2026 to January 25, 2027.
- Stage IV: Interview with the Selection Technical Committee, from November 16, 2026 to January 25, 2027.
- Stage V: Final decision by the Committee, from November 16, 2026 to January 25, 2027.
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:
- Finalists who do not win stay in the candidate reserve for one year.
- If you are registered more than once for this process, you will be discarded.
- Dates may change. Each stage is announced at least 48 hours in advance through the TrabajaEn message counter.
- At every stage, bring official ID, a document showing your RFC, your folio, a copy of the invitation, and your TrabajaEn username and password.
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:
- Oversee the writing and sharing of calls for awards and incentives.
- Advise and coordinate agencies and states on awards and incentive rules.
- Oversee the review, delivery and reissue of awards and recognitions.
- Oversee commission, consent and commission-denial letters.
- Oversee building databases of awards and commissioned staff.
- Oversee the collection of statistical reports on scholarship-commissions.
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