2026 opens with one of the most significant opportunities in the Italian public employment landscape: INPS has officially published the call for the permanent recruitment of 1,695 officers belonging to the PECS professional family — an acronym standing for Progettazione, Erogazione e Controllo dei Servizi (Design, Delivery and Monitoring of Services). This announcement affects thousands of prospective public servants and warrants careful analysis, particularly for those wishing to submit a strong and well-informed application.
From a numerical standpoint, the outcome is a pleasant surprise: preliminary estimates had indicated approximately 1,024 available positions, but the official call published on the InPA Portal confirmed a considerable increase, bringing the total to 1,695 units. Successful candidates will be assigned to the Direzione Generale, the regional Direzioni and the metropolitan Coordinamenti of the Institute across the national territory.
Who May Apply: General Eligibility Requirements
As with all public competitive examinations, this procedure requires candidates to satisfy certain mandatory general requirements: Italian citizenship or equivalent status, full enjoyment of civil and political rights, physical fitness for the duties concerned, and the absence of any grounds precluding appointment to the public administration.
With regard to academic qualifications, the call is notable for its particularly broad scope: this is not a selection reserved exclusively for graduates in economic or legal disciplines, but a competition open to a highly diverse range of fields of study. Among the accepted qualifications, by way of example:
- Law (Giurisprudenza) and Administrative Sciences
- Economics in all its branches (business, political, industrial, services economics, etc.)
- Political Science and International and Diplomatic Sciences
- Sociology, Philosophy, Humanities, History, Pedagogy
- Psychology and Primary Education Sciences
- Communication Sciences, Public Relations, Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Management Engineering (Ingegneria gestionale)
Also accepted are diplomi di laurea awarded under the former degree system, as well as lauree specialistiche and lauree magistrali recognised as equivalent pursuant to the Decreto Interministeriale of 9 July 2009, and qualifications obtained abroad, provided that formal recognition is duly requested in accordance with the procedures set out in the call for applications.
How to Submit an Application
Applications must be submitted exclusively in digital form via the InPA Portal, accessible through a digital identity credential: SPID, Electronic Identity Card (Carta d'Identità Elettronica — CIE), National Services Card (Carta Nazionale dei Servizi — CNS) or eIDAS credentials. Applicants must also hold a personal PEC (posta elettronica certificata) address or a valid digital domicile.
One practical point to bear in mind: the application may be modified
