Advance Poll Supervising Deputy Returning Officer

**Location: Voting locations across Ontario**

**What to expect in this role**

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- The Advance Poll Supervising Deputy Returning Officer (APSDRO) oversees the voting location and manages poll officials during advance poll voting.

**Reporting to the Returning Officer, you will**:

- Supervise one (1) voting location with technology.
- Act as a liaison to relay information between the voting location and the Returning Officer.
- Report any services that are disrupted, incidents that occur or complaints that are made at the voting location to the Returning Officer in a timely manner.
- Contact poll officials to ensure your team is available to work on the prescribed days and times.
- Bring, set up, test and troubleshoot the technology the night before the first day of advance polls.
- Follow troubleshooting steps to assist in resolving issues with technology (computer, printer, modem).
- Ensure staffing resources, supplies and poll layout conforms with Elections Ontario standards.
- Ensure the voting location is free of any partisan campaign materials.
- Ensure the voting location is accessible to the electors.
- Assist electors with disabilities, if required.
- Supervise poll officials to ensure proper procedures are being executed.
- Complete tasks using forms and lists on a computer equipped with Elections Ontario software.
- Temporarily backfill a poll official role, if required.
- Resolve any issues at the voting location escalated by the poll officials as they arise.
- Ensure the voting location promptly closes on time each night of advance polls, and that all electors that entered the voting location prior to close can mark and cast their ballot to vote.
- Securely store equipment and materials at the voting location each night during advance polls.
- Remove all posters and signage after closing on the last night of advance polls.
- Ensure poll supplies and technology from the voting location are returned to the returning office after closing the last night of advance polls.
- Ensure timesheets from the voting locations are returned to the returning office after closing on the last night of advance polls.

**What you need to qualify**:

- Access to a cell phone and vehicle to travel to and from the returning office and voting location.
- Availability to work up to 11 hours per advance poll day.
- Availability to work up to 10 consecutive days of advance polls.
- Availability to work up to three hours the night before the first day of advance polls to set up and troubleshoot technology.
- Availability to work up to three hours on election night to tabulate results.
- Availability to attend a training session.
- Ability to lift up to 60 lbs.
- Ability to read and observe voting procedures at the voting location.
- Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and problem
- solving skills to resolve issues and communicate solutions to staff and the public in an efficient and timely manner.
- Ability to understand, rationalize and resolve situations efficiently as they arise.
- Ability to identify and verify information provided by an elector in a timely manner via hard copy or mobile device.
- Ability to complete data entry of elector information using specific software programs.
- Ability to complete paper-based forms with clear and legible handwriting and good attention to detail, if required.
- Ability to calculate, tally and track the number of ballots manually, if required.
- Ability to work for long stretches of time (up to 11 hours, with the exception of the first day of advance polls, up to 13 hours).
- Ability to learn quickly, follow directions, and complete repetitive duties.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Must be a Canadian citizen and at least 18 years of age on election day.