Embassy of Spain - Rabat: Staff Positions

• These notes pertain to a call for applications to fill permanent, fixed-term auxiliary staff positions at the Embassy of Spain in Rabat, Morocco.

General Information

• Two auxiliary positions are available
• Access to the positions is unrestricted
• Annex I details the roles, remuneration, and other position-related details
• The selection procedure involves a competition-opposition system
• Annex II specifies the evaluations, exercises, and scoring
• A contract will be formalized with the selected applicant demonstrating their competence.
• The announcement is available online, at the Embassy, Spanish Consulates, Cervantes Institutes, and other Spanish offices in Morocco.

Applicant Requirements

• Applicants must meet certain participation requirements by the application deadline and until contract formalization.
• Must be at least 16 years old, but not exceed the maximum retirement age
• Must hold a Secondary Education Certificate (Educación Secundaria Obligatoria)
• Must have the functional capacity to perform the tasks
• Must not have been dismissed from public service through disciplinary action
• Must not be disqualified from public employment by judicial order.
• Non-Moroccan candidates must possess the necessary residency and work permits for Morocco at the start of employment
• The contract will be terminated if the worker no longer has the proper residency and work permits.

Application Process

• The application form (Annex III) is available on the embassy's website.
• Applications should be submitted electronically to the Embassy of Spain in Rabat
• The deadline for submissions is April 11, 2025, at 14:30 (2:30 PM)
• Applications sent by postal mail must be registered at the post office within the deadline and include the corresponding entry stamp on the application form.
• A copy of the ID or passport, the required degree, a resume, and documents supporting any merits the applicant wants to be considered must be attached
• Failure to submit the required documents could result in exclusion from the selection process
• Factual, material, or arithmetic errors may be corrected at any time.

Admission of Candidates

• A list of admitted and excluded applicants will be published
• The list will include ID/passport numbers and reasons for exclusion
• Applicants have five working days to correct any omissions or defects
• The publication will occur at the Embassy, consulates, Cervantes Institutes, the Spanish school in Rabat, and on the Embassy's website.
• The place, date, and time of the first exercise will be indicated.
• Any changes will be posted in the same places.

Selection Board

• Annex IV identifies the selection board for this process
• The selection board must ensure equal opportunities between both sexes.
• The board will address any issues that arise during the exercises and make well-reasoned decisions.
• Members of the selection board must abstain from participating if they have a conflict of interest
• Applicants may challenge the members of the selection board if circumstances exist.
• The selection board's headquarters are located at the Embassy of Spain in Rabat.

Selective Process

• Candidates are called to the exercise in a single call, those who do not appear will be excluded from the opposition phase.
• After each exercise of the opposition phase, the selection board will publish the list of candidates who have reached the minimum score to pass it, indicating the score obtained.
• Likewise, the place, date and time of the next exercise will be indicated.
• Once the opposition phase is finished the selection board will publish the list containing the candidates who have passed it, indicating the place, date and time of the interview in the competition phase.

Competition Phase

• Once the interviews are finished, the selection board will publish the assessment of the merits of the competition phase, indicating the score obtained in each of the merits, the assessment of the interview and the total score of the selective process.
• Applicants will have a period of five working days from the day following the publication of said list to make pertinent allegations.
• Once that period elapses, the selection board will publish the list with the final assessment of the selective process.
• The selection board may require, at any time during the selective process, proof of the identity of the applicants.
• Likewise, if it becomes aware that any applicant does not meet any of the requirements demanded in the call, prior hearing of the person concerned, it must propose their exclusion to the convening authority.

Passing the Selective Process

• After the opposition and competition phases are finished, the President of the selection board will elevate to the convening authority the list of applicants who have obtained at least the minimum score required to pass the selective process, in order of scoring.
• This relationship will be published in the Center where the places called are located and on its website, as well as in as many places as are considered opportune, with the first applicants of said relationship available, up to the number of places called, of a period of eight working days for the presentation of the documentation accrediting the requirements demanded in the call.
• No more contracts may be concluded than the number of job vacancies.
• Until the contract is formalized, the applicants will not be entitled to any financial compensation.

Probation Period

• The applicants hired must complete a trial period of one and a half months, during which time they will be evaluated by the head of the destination unit.
• In the event that any of the candidates does not submit the corresponding documentation within the established period, does not meet the required requirements, waives or the evaluation of the trial period is unfavorable, the position will be awarded to the next candidate of the relationship referred to in base 7.1.

Applicable Legislation

• The labor laws of Morocco will be applied to this contract.

Final Norm

• You may optionally file an appeal for reversal against this call within a month of its publication, before the same body that dictates it, or an appeal for judicial review within two months from the day following its publication.

Annex I Details

• The positions are for an indefinite duration
• Requires an Education Secondary Qualification
• Include secretariat duties, file organization, document drafting in Spanish and French, processing privilege requests, preparing diplomatic mail, and other related tasks as assigned.

Annex II: Selective process description:

• The selective process will consist of an opposition phase and a competition phase with the exercises and assessments detailed below:
• Opposition stage will consist of the following eliminatory tests:

General Culture Test

• Corresponding to the required qualification level for the position called, of knowledge of the Spanish Administration and functioning of the Spanish Representations abroad, which will be carried out by the test procedure with multiple answers.
• The questionnaire will have 20 questions.
• Erroneous answers or unanswered questions will not be penalized. Each correct answer will be valued with 0.50 points.
• It will be scored from 0 to 10 points, a minimum of 5 points being necessary to pass the next test.

Practical test

• Consisting of the resolution of a practical case related to the functions of the position listed in Annex I of the call.
• The test may be solved with office tools.
• It will be scored from 0 to 10 points, a minimum of 5 points being necessary to pass the next test.

Language Test

• Consisting of the drafting of a text in French and Spanish languages on a topic proposed by the Court, a direct and inverse translation to these languages in writing and a translation from classical Arabic to Spanish, also in writing.
• It will be scored from 0 to 10 points, being necessary a minimum of 5 points to pass it.

Scoring

• The score of the opposition phase will be the sum of the qualifications obtained in each of the tests.
• The maximum score of the opposition phase will be 30 points.
• The minimum score of the opposition phase will be 15 points.

Competition Stage:

• The assessment in the competition phase will be done only to the candidates who have passed the opposition phase.
• Assessment of the competition stage will be 20 points. The competition stage will consist of:

Assessment of Professional and Training Merits

• The following merits will be valued, which must be owned by the date of completion of submission of applications:
• Professional merits: Experience in positions where functions equal or similar to those of the called posts have been performed will be valued, documentally accredited.
• Maximum score 16 points
• Form of scoring; 1.6 points for each period of six full months of experience.
• When assessing professional merits, it will be scored equally to have occupied a position in the Administration that in the private company.
• Training merits: The courses related to the position, academic degrees and other knowledge of utility for the position will be valued.

Additional Information

• The Annex also describes a personal style interview
• There is also an anti-discrimination clause to help candidates with disabilities.