The Diplomat
The Instituto Cervantes has published the public call to fill the position of director of International Relations, a position that has been vacant since September 2022 and which it tried to fill six months ago through another call that was finally vacant after the withdrawal of the “only suitable candidate”.
The position has been vacant since September 2022, when the then director of International Relations at Cervantes, Miguel Utray, left the post (which he had held since February of the same year) to take up the post of Spanish ambassador to the Philippines.
On October 5, 2022, just one day after the last annual meeting of the Institute’s Board of Trustees -presided over by the King and Queen of Spain at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, in Madrid-, the first resolution was published to call for the position. However, on February 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared the public call vacant due to “the withdrawal of the candidacy of the only candidate who met the requirements”.
According to the resolution of April 14 for the announcement of the position, published five days later in the Official State Gazette, “the selection process will be carried out in accordance with the principles of competition and publicity, which guarantee that the candidate meets merit, capacity and suitability”. Likewise, the post of Director of International Relations will be filled on an employment basis, linked by a senior management contract, and, in accordance with the current remuneration established by the Ministry of Finance, the gross annual salary will amount to 68,793.27 euros.
Candidates must be Spanish nationals, hold a Bachelor’s or Bachelor’s degree and have seven years of work experience in public diplomacy. Likewise, they may not have been dismissed by disciplinary proceedings from the service of any state or regional public administration, nor be in absolute or special disqualification for public employment or public office by court order.
This call for applications shall take into account the principle of equal treatment between women and men with regard to access to employment, in accordance with Article 14 of the Spanish Constitution, the Organic Law of March 22, 2007 and the III Plan for Gender Equality in the General State Administration and in the Public Bodies linked to or dependent on it.
