City of Vaughan Looking for People to Work Municipal Elections in October
Aug. 5, 2014
The City of Vaughan is recruiting for a variety of customer-service focused temporary election officials to assist with the municipal elections on Oct. 27, 2014.
In order to become an election official, applicants must complete an application form and a short open book quiz. The book and quiz can be found at vaughan.ca/elections or be picked up at the City Clerk’s office at Vaughan City Hall.
All applications must be received by Friday, Sept. 5.
Application requirements –
The City of Vaughan is recruiting for a variety of customer-service focused temporary election officials to assist with the municipal elections on Oct. 27, 2014.
In order to become an election official, applicants must complete an application form and a short open book quiz. The book and quiz can be found at vaughan.ca/elections or be picked up at the City Clerk’s office at Vaughan City Hall.
All applications must be received by Friday, Sept. 5.
Application requirements –
- Eighteen years of age or older
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
- Excellent customer-service and election official experience preferred
- Knowledge of other languages commonly spoken in the City of Vaughan is an asset (Italian, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Punjabi and Farsi)
- Comfortable with and/or experience using optical scan automated vote counting tabulators
- For the positions of managing deputy returning officer, tabulator deputy returning officer and single poll deputy returning officer’s, individuals must have use of a vehicle on Voting Day, Oct. 27, 2014
- Ability to work well both independently and as a member of a team
- Available to attend a required training session up to two weeks prior to Voting Day
- Applicants cannot be a candidate or the spouse, sibling, parent, child, grandparent or grandchild of a candidate running in the Oct. 27 municipal elections