JORT Analysis
The JORT No. 89 of September 4, 2026 brings together several dozen orders concerning health, education, the Court of Auditors and the National Heritage Institute. But the 2,377 positions listed do not correspond to as many new hires. Recruits, secondments, procedures referring to specific access conditions, and internal promotions: Tunisie Numérique has gone through the texts one by one to distinguish what the numbers really cover.
The Essentials
| What the texts examined provide | Posts |
|---|---|
| Posts covered by recruitment competitions with no mention of internal promotion or secondment | 557 |
| Posts explicitly provided by secondment | 45 |
| Education recruitment posts whose access conditions refer to earlier organizing texts | 30 |
| Internal promotions in Education | 1 722 |
| Internal promotions at the Court of Auditors | 23 |
| Total posts concerned | 2 377 |
To note: the figure of 2,377 does not appear as a total in the JORT. It results from the count carried out by Tunisie Numérique from the various orders. It does not mean either 2,377 net job creations or 2,377 posts accessible to every job seeker.
Health: 586 posts, of which 45 explicitly provided for by secondment
The main recruitment block concerns health. Five competitions total 586 posts: specialist physicians, pharmacists, dentists, hospital physicians and chief hospital physicians.
The most significant arrangement concerns 476 public health specialists. The competition is set to begin on November 16, 2026 and applications close on October 16.
433 public health specialist physicians for the Ministry of Health
The JORT provides 433 posts, across all specialties, for the Ministry of Health. An additional post in preventive medicine and community medicine is allocated to the National Institute for Evaluation and Accreditation in the health field, but by secondment.
Three posts at the Ministry of Finance
| Specialty | Posts |
|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 1 |
| Medical Imaging | 1 |
| Pediatrics | 1 |
| Total | 3 |
These three posts are explicitly provided for by secondment.
Interior and Civil Protection: 24 doctors
| Assignment / specialty | Posts |
|---|---|
| Medical Biopathology | 2 |
| Psychiatry | 1 |
| Family Medicine – Ministry of Interior | 5 |
| Family Medicine – Civil Protection | 16 |
| Total | 24 |
Family medicine accounts for 21 of the 24 posts, including 16 intended for Civil Protection. Here again, the JORT explicitly mentions the secondment.
Defense: the 15 posts in detail
| Specialty | Posts |
|---|---|
| Anesthesiology – Intensive Care | 3 |
| Pediatric Surgery | 1 |
| Urological Surgery | 2 |
| Medical Imaging | 2 |
| Physiology and Functional Explorations | 1 |
| Cardiology | 1 |
| Physical Medicine and Functional Rehabilitation | 1 |
| Pulmonology | 1 |
| Surgery and Orthopedics | 1 |
| Dermatology | 1 |
| Clinical Hematology | 1 |
| Total | 15 |
In total, among the 476 posts for specialist physicians, 43 are explicitly provided by secondment, while 433 are assigned to the Ministry of Health without this designation.
Pharmacists: 52 posts
Another competition, planned from November 23, 2026, concerns 52 public health pharmacists. The JORT distributes posts between 50 at the Ministry of Health and two posts, by secondment, with the National Institute for Evaluation and Accreditation in the health field.
Applications close on October 23, 2026. With these two posts, the number of Health block posts explicitly provided by secondment reaches 45.
Dentist physicians: 53 posts and a drafting discrepancy
The competition for public health dentists covers 53 posts: 50 at the Ministry of Health and three at the Ministry of Interior. The competition is planned to begin on November 24, 2026 and applications close on October 26.
A detail to note : unlike the posts for specialist physicians destined for the Ministry of Interior, the decree relating to the three dentists does not specify that they are filled by secondment. Tunisie Numérique thus counts them among recruitment posts with no mention of secondment, without inferring that a different regime was necessarily intended by the administration.
Two posts at Hédi Chaker Hospital in Sfax, competition organized in Tunis
Two hospital doctor positions are allocated to Hédi Chaker Hospital in Sfax: one in child psychiatry and one in pediatrics.
The location of assignment should not be confused with the venue of the competition: it is organized at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis starting on October 27, 2026. Applications close on September 25.
Three posts of chief hospital physicians are part of another competition, also organized at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis starting on October 27, with the same deadline of September 25.
First deadline to remember: September 25, 2026 for the competitions of hospital physicians and chief hospital physicians.
The Health Block Overview
| Competition | Posts |
|---|---|
| Specialist physicians | 476 |
| Pharmacists | 52 |
| Dentists | 53 |
| Hospital physicians | 2 |
| Chief hospital physicians | 3 |
| Total | 586 |
Among these 586 posts, 45 are explicitly provided by secondment. The remaining 541 do not carry this designation in the orders examined.
Education: 30 recruitment posts whose access conditions refer to other texts
Three decrees dated September 1, 2026 each provide for 10 posts, i.e., 30 in total.
| Grade | JORT Designation | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Chief General Supervisors above-class | قيمين عامين رؤساء فوق الرتبة | 10 |
| Chief General Supervisors | قيمين عامين رؤساء | 10 |
| Senior General Supervisors | قيمين عامين | 10 |
| Total | 30 |
The first of these competitions is officially described as a “external on dossiers” competition. The other two are presented as on-dossiers competitions for recruitment.
These labels, however, are not sufficient by themselves to determine all candidate categories that can actually participate. The 2026 opening orders refer to earlier texts that fix the organizing modalities and access conditions for the competitions.
One element appears directly in the JORT of September 4, 2026: for the competition covering the 10 posts of general supervisors, the order refers, alongside the texts governing the relevant bodies, to Decree No. 2013-2225 of June 3, 2013, relating to the special status of the primary school teaching corps.
Why TN treats these 30 posts separately: the organizational texts to which the 2026 decrees refer are not reproduced in the analyzed JORT No. 89. The sole designation “recruitment,” or even “external competition,” does not alone determine whether each of these competitions is accessible to the general public. Tunisie Numérique isolates these 30 posts rather than automatically including them in the 557 other recruitment posts.
Dates for these 30 posts
| Nature | Date |
|---|---|
| Remote application deadline | November 15, 2026 |
| Last submission deadline | November 20, 2026 |
| Opening of competitions | December 15, 2026 |
Education: 1,722 promotions spread across two corps
The remainder of the Education block concerns internal promotions. The JORT, however, treats two separate corps. Separating them helps avoid mixing different grades and makes reading easier for the affected agents.
The French names below facilitate reading. The Arabic designation used in the JORT is preserved to avoid any ambiguity between grades.
General Supervisors Corps under the Ministry: 317 promotions
| Chosen designation | JORT designation | Modalité | Posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distinguished Chief General Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس مميز | Dossiers | 1 |
| Principal Chief General Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس أول | Dossiers | 22 |
| Above-class Chief General Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس فوق الرتبة | Dossiers | 25 |
| Above-class Chief General Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس فوق الرتبة | Titles | 3 |
| General Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس | Dossiers | 49 |
| General Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس | Titles | 7 |
| Senior Distinguished Chief Supervisor | قيم عام أول مميز | Dossiers | 389 |
| Senior Chief General Supervisor | قيم عام أول | Dossiers | 55 |
| Chief Senior Supervisor | قيم أول | Dossiers | 389 |
| Chief Senior Supervisor | قيم عام أول | Dossiers | 153 |
| Chief Supervisor | قيم عام رئيس | Dossiers | 55 |
| Total | 317 |
Collège and High School Supervisors Corps: 1,405 promotions
| Chosen designation | JORT designation | Modalité | Posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Principal Counselor Supervisor | قيم مرشد أول مميز | Dossiers | 59 |
| Senior Principal Counselor Supervisor | قيم مرشد أول مميز | Titles | 8 |
| Senior Principal Counselor | قيم مرشد أول | Dossiers | 295 |
| Senior Counselor | قيم مرشد | Dossiers | 256 |
| Counselor | قيم مرشد | Dossiers | 256 |
| Counselor | قيم مرشد | Titles | 35 |
| Senior Counselor Chief | قيم مرشد | Dossiers | 389 |
| Senior Principal Supervisor | قيم أول فوق الرتبة | Dossiers | 290 |
| Senior Principal Supervisor | قيم أول فوق الرتبة | Dossiers | 153 |
| Chief Principal Supervisor | قيم أول | Dossiers | 55 |
| Total | 1 405 |
The two corps together thus account for 1,722 internal promotions in Education.
For a large part of dossier-based competitions, the remote application deadline is set for November 15, the filing deadline for the dossiers is November 20, and the competitions open on December 15, 2026. Several title-based competitions have closer deadlines, notably an online deadline on October 11, a dossier submission by October 16, and opening from November 11.
Court of Auditors: 23 internal promotions
Seven orders issued by the Head of Government open internal competitions within the Court of Auditors.
| Grade | Posts |
|---|---|
| General Registrar Administrator | 4 |
| Chief Registrar Administrator | 2 |
| Administrative Registrar Counselor | 6 |
| Administrative Registrar | 5 |
| Senior Principal Clerk | 4 |
| Central Analyst | 1 |
| Chief Technician | 1 |
| Total | 23 |
Registrations close on September 28, 2026 and the competitions must begin on October 28. These are internal promotions and not public job openings.
National Heritage Institute: 16 posts to be filled
Under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the National Heritage Institute is also involved in three external competitions by exam totaling 16 posts: engineers, architects and administrators.
Four engineers
| Civil Engineering | 3 |
| Computer Science | 1 |
| Total | 4 |
Four architects
A second competition covers four posts of chief architects.
Eight administrators
| Economic Sciences | 5 |
| Law | 3 |
| Total | 8 |
For these three competitions, online registrations begin on September 30, close on October 23, and the exams are scheduled to start on November 23, 2026.
What do the 2,377 posts really represent?
A detailed reading finally allows distinguishing five situations.
| Situation | Posts |
|---|---|
| Recruitment competitions with no mention of internal promotion or secondment | 557 |
| Secondments explicitly provided for in health block | 45 |
| Education posts whose access conditions refer to earlier texts | 30 |
| Internal promotions in Education | 1 722 |
| Internal promotions at the Court of Auditors | 23 |
| Total | 2 377 |
The first 557 posts include 541 health block posts for which the examined orders mention neither internal promotion nor secondment, plus the 16 posts of the National Heritage Institute.
This category should not be equated with 557 new job creations. The JORT opens competitions and sets positions to be filled; it does not indicate that each corresponds to a net addition to public sector staff.
The 30 Education posts are, themselves, treated separately, their access conditions being fixed by earlier texts to which the 2026 orders refer.
The main takeaway of this issue is therefore elsewhere: behind a large administrative volume of 2 377 posts, there are very different realities. Health concentrates most recruitment competitions, while Education concentrates a large professional progression operation. Added to this are explicitly identified secondments and procedures whose title alone does not always allow immediate determination of the eligible candidates.
Key dates to remember
| Date | Nature | Concours concerned |
|---|---|---|
| September 25 | Close | Hospitals doctors and chief hospital doctors |
| September 28 | Close | Inscriptions to internal Court of Auditors competitions |
| September 30 | Opening of registrations | National Heritage Institute |
| October 11 | Online end | Several Education promotion competitions on titles |
| October 16 | Close / deposit | Specialists doctors; deposit of dossiers for several Education on-titles competitions |
| October 23 | Close | Pharmacists; registrations for the National Institute of Heritage |
| October 26 | Close | Dentists |
| October 27 | Opening of the competition | Hospitals doctors and chief hospital doctors, Tunis Faculty of Medicine |
| October 28 | Opening of competitions | Internal promotions within the Court of Auditors |
| November 11 | Opening of competitions | Several Education promotion competitions on titles |
| November 15 | Online end | Many Education competitions, including the three competitions covering 30 recruitment posts |
| November 16 | Opening of the competition | 476 public health specialists |
| November 20 | Deposit of dossiers | Education competitions |
| November 23 | Opening of competitions | Public health pharmacists and National Heritage Institute competition |
| November 24 | Opening of the competition | Public health dentists |
| November 15 | Closing | Numerous Education competitions, including the three competitions covering 30 recruitment posts |
| December 15 | Opening of competitions | Numerous Education competitions, including the three competitions covering 30 recruitment posts |
Source : Official Journal of the Tunisian Republic No. 89 of September 4, 2026. The count and classification of the 2 377 posts were carried out by Tunisie Numérique from the orders published in this issue.
