The Regional Secretariat for Tourism, Environment and Culture hired a senior technical officer on a permanent contract for the Regional Directorate for Territorial Planning, effective 1 November 2026.
The Regional Secretariat for Tourism, Environment and Culture hired Carla Sofia da Costa Ponte on a permanent contract as a senior technical officer, effective 1 November 2026. The worker is assigned to the staff map of the Regional Directorate for Territorial Planning, in the Innovation and Development Division. The contract is subject to a 180-day probationary period. The decision was published in the Official Journal of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, II Series, No. 200, of 4 November 2026, through Notice No. 578/2026.
The notice gives public notice of the signing of a permanent employment contract in public functions. The contract results from a common competitive procedure, that is, a recruitment process open to fill a job position in a given career and category. In this case, the career is that of senior technical officer, for which a bachelor's degree is normally required.
The probationary period, during which both parties may assess the employment relationship, begins on 1 November 2026 and lasts 180 days. This duration corresponds to that provided for in Clause 6 of Collective Labour Agreement No. 1/2009, of 28 September, and in Extension Regulation No. 2/2010, of 12 October.
Carla Sofia da Costa Ponte is placed in the 1st position, at remuneration level 16, of the senior technical officer career and category. The notice does not state the exact salary, which results from the pay table approved by Ordinance No. 1553-C/2008, of 31 December. That table has been successively updated by Decree-Laws No. 84-F/2022, of 16 December, No. 26-B/2023, of 18 April, No. 108/2023, of 22 November, No. 13/2024, of 10 January, No. 1/2025, of 16 January, and No. 29-A/2026, of 30 January.
The contracted worker is also covered by the Centralised Human Resources Management System of the Regional Secretariat for Tourism, Environment and Culture.
The notice is published under paragraph b) of Article 4(1) of Law No. 35/2014, of 20 June, which approved the General Labour Law in Public Functions. This law was adapted to the Madeira regional autonomous administration by Regional Legislative Decree No. 11/2018/M, of 3 August. Notices of this type serve to make public the hirings made following competitions. The document is signed by the head of the regional secretariat's office, Raquel de Vasconcelos Drummond Borges França, and dated 26 October 2026.
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