Most nonprofit and public sector leaders in Florianópolis work for the state of Santa Catarina, whose government, audit court and court of justice all sit in the capital, or for the universities. A short list of nonprofit foundations, led by Fundação CERTI and the community foundation ICOM, hires the rest. The city had 537,211 people in the 2022 Census, 115,971 more than in 2010.
Checked November 2026, updated November 10, 2026
By F. Jay Hall, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ExecSearches.comThe short version
Who hires nonprofit and public sector leaders in Florianópolis?
The state of Santa Catarina comes first: its controller’s office, CGE-SC, the audit court TCE-SC and the state court, TJSC, all work from the capital. Then come the universities: UFSC and IFSC at the federal level, UDESC for the state. Among nonprofits, Fundação CERTI is an independent nonprofit founded in Florianópolis in 1984, and ICOM works as a community foundation.
Is Florianópolis a tech city?
By the numbers, yes. The ACATE Observatório puts Florianópolis tenth among Brazilian cities for tech companies in 2025, with 12.6 per thousand residents, the highest rate of any state capital. Each of those companies that controls personal data must name an encarregado under article 41 of the LGPD.
Is a concurso open in Florianópolis right now?
Yes, at the state court. TJSC’s Edital 33/2026 for 15 substitute judges takes inscriptions until 4 p.m. Brasília time on November 26, 2026. The state environment institute, IMA, opens inscriptions for 18 posts on November 13, 2026.
Who hires in Florianópolis
- Controladoria-Geral do Estado de Santa Catarina: created by Lei Complementar 741 of June 12, 2019, it is the central body of the state’s internal control and ombudsman system, and it lists compliance among its values.
- Tribunal de Contas de Santa Catarina: the state audit court, created on November 4, 1955, by Lei Estadual 1.366, has worked from Praça Tancredo Neves since 1976.
- Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina: the state court, at Rua Álvaro Millen da Silveira, 208, with a judges’ exam open through November 26, 2026.
- UFSC: the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, created by Lei 3.849 of December 18, 1960, serves about 29,000 students.
- UDESC: the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, created in 1965.
- IFSC: the federal institute began in Florianópolis on September 23, 1909, as the Escola de Aprendizes Artífices de Santa Catarina.
- Fundação CERTI: an independent nonprofit founded in Florianópolis in 1984. It works in research and development and sells specialized technology services.
- ICOM, Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis: acts as a community foundation and supports donors in their social investment.
- Sapiens Parque: more than 150 companies are installed in the park.
Florianópolis in numbers
- IBGE, 2022 Census, SIDRA table 4709: Florianópolis has 537,211 people, second in Santa Catarina after Joinville.
- IBGE, same table: the city gained 115,971 people between 2010 and 2022, growth of 2.05 percent a year. Curitiba grew 0.10 percent a year over the same period.
- IBGE, PIB dos Municípios 2023, SIDRA table 5938: Florianópolis produced 6.08 percent of Santa Catarina’s GDP and 0.29 percent of Brazil’s. São Paulo alone produced 9.75 percent of Brazil’s GDP that year.
- IBGE, PIB dos Municípios 2021, the latest year with sector detail: services outside government made up 76.09 percent of gross value added, public administration 15.11 percent, and industry 8.42 percent.
- ACATE Observatório, 2025: Santa Catarina has 34,200 tech companies, and Greater Florianópolis holds 33.5 percent of them, about 11,300.
- ACATE Observatório, 2025: the state’s tech sector employs more than 102,000 people. Greater Florianópolis was the only region where that number fell, by about 1 percent.
Government weighs more here than in the other southern capitals in this series. Public administration was 15.11 percent of gross value added in 2021, against 11.43 percent in Curitiba and 11.40 percent in Porto Alegre, by the same IBGE table.
How public hiring works in Florianópolis
Under article 37 of the Federal Constitution, a permanent public post depends on passing a concurso público, and only the cargo em comissão, an appointed position, is exempt. Each exam has its own edital. Two were open or about to open on November 10, 2026.
- TJSC, Edital 33/2026: 15 posts for Juiz Substituto, a substitute judge. Inscriptions run from 4 p.m. on October 19 to 4 p.m. on November 26, 2026, Brasília time, through FGV, the exam organizer.
- IMA, Edital 001/2026: 18 immediate posts at the Instituto do Meio Ambiente de Santa Catarina for technical and university-level candidates, with inscriptions from November 13 to December 14, 2026, and the exam in Florianópolis. IMA’s notice lists areas from biology and engineering to administration and IT.
The Prefeitura de Florianópolis site did not load when we checked on November 10, 2026, so city concursos are not listed here.
Open roles
None verified. On November 10, 2026, we found no opening in compliance or data protection in Florianópolis on an employer’s own careers page, and none in nonprofit leadership. The two concursos above are the open public routes. In Curitiba, two compliance-side roles were open the same day.
For third-sector roles across Brazil, GIFE Vagas is the free board run by GIFE. Compliance and data protection roles in Portuguese are on the GRC Careers Brazil page.
The LGPD in Santa Catarina, and the AI bill
- LGPD, Lei 13.709/2018, article 41: every controller names an encarregado for personal data and publishes that person’s contact, preferably online. That covers the tech companies above as much as the state.
- CGE-SC, data protection page: the state executive applies the LGPD under Decreto 1.184 of March 1, 2021.
- SCTI, Comitê Gestor de Proteção de Dados: the state committee page lists its members and the encarregados of state agencies.
- LGPD, article 55-J: the ANPD supervises the law and applies its sanctions; its site now calls it the Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados.
- Agência Senado, December 10, 2024: the Senate approved PL 2338/2023, the Marco Legal da IA.
- Câmara dos Deputados, checked November 10, 2026: received on March 17, 2025, the bill is listed as Aguardando Parecer, awaiting a committee report.
A Florianópolis software company that builds AI products answers to the LGPD today, plus any rules of the sector it sells to. A national AI law does not exist yet, and the Brazil guide tracks the bill along with the other laws behind compliance jobs.
Azorean Florianópolis
- IBGE: the first Azorean couples arrived in 1748 to farm the island, says the city monograph. State law 111 of October 1, 1894, renamed Nossa Senhora do Desterro as Florianópolis, says the municipal history.
- Governo de Santa Catarina, culture: the Festa do Divino Espírito Santo, a centuries-old tradition brought by the Azoreans, is celebrated mainly on the Ilha de Santa Catarina and in coastal towns.
The German, Polish, Italian and Ukrainian South is told in the Curitiba guide and the Porto Alegre guide.
Em português: vagas no terceiro setor, no setor público e em compliance em Florianópolis
Em Florianópolis, quem mais contrata líderes do setor público é o estado de Santa Catarina: o governo, a CGE-SC, o TCE-SC e o TJSC ficam na capital. Depois vêm a UFSC, a UDESC e o IFSC, e fundações sem fins lucrativos como a Fundação CERTI e o ICOM, que atua como fundação comunitária.
- IBGE, Censo 2022: Florianópolis tem 537.211 habitantes, 115.971 a mais que em 2010, e é a segunda maior cidade de Santa Catarina, depois de Joinville.
- IBGE, PIB dos Municípios: a cidade gerou 6,08% do PIB catarinense em 2023. Em 2021, a administração pública respondeu por 15,11% do valor adicionado.
- Observatório ACATE, 2025: Florianópolis é a 10ª cidade do Brasil em número de empresas de tecnologia e tem 12,6 empresas a cada mil habitantes, a maior taxa entre as capitais.
- CGE-SC: o Poder Executivo estadual aplica a LGPD conforme o Decreto 1.184, de 1º de março de 2021.
- Agência Senado, 10 de dezembro de 2024: o Senado aprovou o PL 2338/2023, o Marco Legal da IA. Na Câmara dos Deputados, o projeto aguarda parecer. Ainda não há lei de IA em vigor no Brasil.
- Concursos: o Edital 33/2026 do TJSC, para 15 vagas de juiz substituto, recebe inscrições até as 16h de 26 de novembro de 2026. O concurso do IMA, com 18 vagas, abre inscrições em 13 de novembro de 2026.
- IBGE: os primeiros casais açorianos chegaram em 1748. Em 1894, Nossa Senhora do Desterro passou a se chamar Florianópolis.
Em 10 de novembro de 2026, não encontramos vagas abertas de compliance, proteção de dados ou liderança no terceiro setor em Florianópolis nos sites dos próprios empregadores.
Os outros guias da série: o guia do Brasil, Curitiba, Porto Alegre e São Paulo.
Related guides
- Who hires across Brazil, the country guide
- Curitiba, the capital of Paraná
- Porto Alegre and Rio Grande do Sul
- São Paulo
- Free job alerts on ExecSearches.com
Sources
- IBGE, Censo 2022, SIDRA table 4709
- IBGE, PIB dos Municípios, SIDRA table 5938 (2023 GDP; 2021 sector detail)
- Constituição Federal, article 37
- IBGE, Florianópolis, Coleção de Monografias 408 (PDF)
- Lei 13.709/2018, the LGPD, articles 41 and 55-J
- IBGE, Histórico do município de Florianópolis (PDF)
- Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD)
- Agência Senado, Senado aprova regulamentação da inteligência artificial, December 10, 2024
- Câmara dos Deputados, PL 2338/2023, procedural record
- Governo de Santa Catarina, Conheça SC, Cultura
- CGE-SC, Sobre a Controladoria
- TCE-SC, História
- Proteção de dados pessoais, CGE-SC
- TJSC, Concurso Edital 33/2026
- SCTI, Comitê Gestor de Proteção de Dados
- TJSC, Edital 33/2026 (PDF)
- UFSC, A UFSC
- UDESC, Sobre
- IFSC, Histórico
- Fundação CERTI, Institucional
- ICOM, Quem somos
- Sapiens Parque
- Observatório ACATE, panorama 2025
- IMA, concurso público notice, November 4, 2026
- Observatório ACATE, empresas
- FURB, IMA Edital 001/2026
- Observatório ACATE, colaboradores
- GIFE Vagas