Call for applications for director and manager positions at the Independent Authority for the Protection of Whistleblowers (IAW)

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The Independent Authority for the Protection of Whistleblowers (IAW) announced on Saturday, May 31st, through the open selection process, the positions of director and manager of the institution.
If you are interested, within 10 calendar days (ending Tuesday, June 10th), you must submit your application, complete a self-assessment, and prepare for an interview.
The preparation of a management project (or report) is not required.
 

The AAI is taking advantage of the framework of Royal Decree-Law 6/2023, of December 19, which approves urgent measures for the implementation of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan in the areas of public justice, civil service, local government, and patronage, to reduce the submission deadline for applications where “…the figure of professional public management personnel is considered, determined by elements such as a leading role in the development of public policies and programs, acting in accordance with the criteria and direct instructions of the political tier, and with responsibility for their management and monitoring of compliance with the objectives proposed in the development of the action plans of the organization in which they perform their functions.”

 

The ministerial order implementing it establishes, “From the perspective of the principles of necessity and effectiveness, this is a necessary and appropriate instrument to serve the general interest and the effective implementation of the Government’s public policies in matters under the responsibility of the corresponding ministerial department or public body. Likewise, the regulation guarantees the principle of proportionality, as there is no other alternative to achieving the proposed objectives, and also the principle of legal certainty, as the text is consistent with the rest of the national legal system in order to generate an integrated and stable regulatory framework. Furthermore, it complies with the requirements of the principle of transparency, as the objectives of this ministerial order are clearly defined.”

 

Call for proposals published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on May 31, 2025 (Director) Correction of errors

Call for proposals published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on May 31, 2025 (Manager) Correction of errors

Guide for Developing Public Integrity Plans Related to Next Generation Funds. Visual didactic manual “Conflicts of interest, in terms of public integrity”

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The AVAF makes this GUIDE available to any entity or person included in its scope of action, which, as its name indicates, is intended to serve as a ROAD MAP with regard to the minimum contents of public integrity plans, having integrated into its general lines the requirements and guidelines related to Next Generation funds. At the same time, the guide intends to accompany them in the process of elaboration and implementation of said plans, putting at their disposal XXI FACILITATING ANNEXES of this commendable task that allows Valencian public entities to position themselves in favor of the culture of public integrity, with tolerance zero towards corruption, in this case, through the preparation, approval and implementation of its integrity plan in relation to all its practice areas, resulting in an improvement in the control (internal and external) of the public budgets of Valencian entities, and not only those coming from the financial budget of the European Union.

The guide incorporates as an annex and complement to the same the visual didactic manual “Conflicts of interest, in the key of public integrity”, approved by Resolution of the Director of the AVAF no. 808, of November 10, 2021.

You can consult it in the following link

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency presents to les Corts its Activity Report for the 2020 year

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More than 800 people receive training from the Valencia Antifraud Agency in matters of ethics and public integrity and the fight against corruption during 2020

València, March 30, 2021.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has presented its Activity Report for the year 2020 to the Les Corts Board, thus fulfilling the mandate contained in article 22 of Law 11/2016 for the creation of the agency.
The award ceremony took place in the Pati de Les Corts and the President of Les Corts, Enric Morera, as well as the members of the Les Corts Board were present.
On this occasion, the Activity Report has been delivered in digital form through a pen as well as a QR code from which the document can be easily downloaded. In this way, the AVAF contributes to the reduction of paper consumption and economic spending by adhering to the 2030 sustainability commitments
The Report includes the activity carried out by the Agency in 2020 in the area of ​​training, prevention and documentation; the legal and protection area of ​​the complainant; analysis and research; administration, recruitment and human resources and communication.
After the ceremony of delivery of the Report, the director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares has attended to the media and has highlighted some of the most important points developed by the Agency during a year 2020 that despite being marked by the COVID crisis -19 has been more intense and has registered greater activity for this body since it began its operation at the end of 2020.
Thus, in the area of ​​training, the Agency has offered training to more than 800 people in all the activities it has organized and in which it has collaborated, emphasizing one of the main functions entrusted to the Agency for the prevention of fraud and corruption and creating a culture based on ethics and public integrity.
Regarding the complaints received during the year 2020, they reached the figure of 226 and 85% of them were presented through the Complaints Mailbox, which has become the main channel for informing the Agency of acts and events that can be constitutive of fraud and corruption in the Valencian public administrations.
Regarding the subject matter of the complaints filed, in 32% of the cases they are in public procurement, which represents a significant increase compared to 2019, where these complaints represented 25%. 64% of the most reported public administrations were local and 51% of them are in the province of Valencia.
With regard to the protection of people who report corruption, the AVAF received 35 requests and 24 people have been granted the status of protected person, which places the Valencian Community as a benchmark when anticipating the transposition into the Spanish legal system of the European Directive 1937 / 2019 of whistleblowers, informants or whistleblowers of corruption better known as the Whistleblowers Directive.
The Director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, has stated that “this Activity Report includes all the work carried out by AVAF staff in their different areas during 2020 and is a reflection that despite the difficulties arising from the pandemic situation have not been an obstacle to carry out their functions of investigation, prevention, training and protection of the whistleblowers ”.
“I encourage you to consult the Report, a document of more than 200 pages in which the work developed over these 12 months appears and which is the confirmation of the consolidation of the Agency as a body in the fight against fraud and corruption both nationally and internationally. And as an example of this international recognition is that for the first time, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) under the European Commission has requested the collaboration of the Agency for an operation against fraud and corruption developed in the Valencian Community ” added Llinares.

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Executive Summary of the 2020 report