Cadre d'emplois


In France, within the territorial civil service employment frameworks constitute specific statutes corresponding to various jobs to be filled. They are roughly equivalent to the corps found in the French state civil service.

Definition

Article 4 of Law No. 84-53 of 26 January 1984 originally provided that territorial civil servants would be grouped into corps, similar to civil servants of the State and public hospital establishments. However, Law No. 87-529 of 13 July 1987 substituted the concept of the employment framework. Only the agents of the commune-department of Paris were grouped into corps.
The aforementioned law of 26 January 1984 states:
Sociologically, the employment framework is defined less by a specific trade or technical skill and more by the capacity of individuals to hold a specific rank in the administrative hierarchy. Access to a framework often requires passing a competitive examination which serves to unify the specific employment branch while differentiating it from others.

Roles and hierarchy

The employment frameworks are structured hierarchically, separating execution tasks from management and conception.Category A: This category includes managers and policy makers.
  • * ' : A small, elite framework primarily present in large cities, General Councils, and Regional Councils.
  • * ' : Considered the "modal level" of local management, this framework is much larger. Attachés are present in almost all local government agencies; in smaller municipalities, they often serve as the managing director, while in larger towns they act as department heads. Their role involves the conception and implementation of public policies in administrative, financial, and social sectors.Category B: An intermediate level.
  • * ' : Situated below attachés, they perform administrative and financial management tasks and draft legal instruments.Category C: The execution level.
  • * ' : Tasked with the application of regulations and execution of administrative work, relying on "basic knowledge" rather than the conceptual analysis required of Category A frameworks.
Distinct from the administrative stream, the Technical stream operates with different professional norms; for instance, competitive exams for engineers value concise, technical expression, whereas administrative exams favor "philosophical, journalistic, or legalistic" forms of expression.

Access to different employment frameworks

Access to the different employment frameworks is conditioned upon passing a competitive examination or obtaining an internal promotion.
The competitive examination can be:External, for candidates not already in the civil service ;Internal, for civil servants who have completed four years of effective service;
  • A third competition, for individuals who have worked at least eight years in the private sector.
Different examinations are organized for each level of the employment framework. For the framework of, the examination is that of the Institut national des études territoriales. For the framework of territorial attachés, examinations are organized at the departmental level by each. The City of Paris, which has a specific statute, does not depend on any center as it acts as its own management center. It therefore organizes its own attaché examination for the City of Paris.
Other employment frameworks are filled by specific examinations organized for each stream and each employment framework based on needs. Each year, examinations for territorial engineer, animator, or territorial professors are organized by the management centers or by the.

Typology

Employment frameworks are, in turn, grouped into ten job streams. Within the same stream, there are several employment frameworks. Each employment framework is attached to one of three categories: A, B, or C. For example, the administrative stream includes the employment frameworks of, territorial attaché, and secretary of the town hall in Category A; territorial editor in Category B; and administrative assistant in Category C. The statute of each employment framework is national and established by a decree in the Council of State.Administrative:
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • * Technical:
  • * Chief territorial engineers
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • * Territorial supervisors of educational establishments
  • *
  • * Territorial technical assistants of educational establishments Cultural:
  • *
  • *
  • * Directors of territorial establishments for artistic education
  • * Territorial professors of artistic education
  • * Territorial attachés for heritage conservation
  • *
  • * Territorial assistants for heritage and library conservation
  • * Territorial assistants for artistic education
  • * Sports:
  • *
  • *
  • * Animation:
  • *
  • * Social:
  • * Territorial socio-educational advisors
  • * Territorial socio-educational assistants
  • *
  • * Territorial monitors-educators
  • *
  • * Medico-Social:
  • * Territorial doctor
  • * Territorial psychologist
  • * Territorial midwife
  • * Childcare health executives
  • * Nursing and rehabilitation health executives
  • * Territorial childcare workers
  • * Territorial nurses
  • * Territorial childcare auxiliaries
  • * Territorial care auxiliaries Medico-Technical:
  • * Territorial biologist, veterinarian, and pharmacist
  • * Territorial paramedical technicians Municipal Police:
  • *
  • *
  • * Municipal police agents
  • * Fire and Rescue:
  • * Captains, commandants, lieutenant-colonels, and colonels of professional firefighters
  • * Doctors and pharmacists of professional firefighters
  • * Lieutenants of professional firefighters
  • * Management nurses of professional firefighters
  • * Nurses of professional firefighters
  • * Non-commissioned professional firefighters