Supervising Deputy Returning Officer

1 week ago

Toronto, Canada Elections Ontario Full time

**Location: Voting locations across Ontario**

**What to expect in this role**

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The Supervising Deputy Returning Officer (SDRO) oversees the voting location and manages poll officials on election day.

**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 election day.
- 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.
- Manage a large flow of electors within a voting location.
- 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, and that all electors that entered the voting location prior to close can mark and cast their ballot to vote.
- Complete the paper-based Ballot Statement of the Poll form after the closing of the polls.
- Communicate the results to the returning office.
- Remove all posters and signage after closing on election day.
- Ensure poll supplies and technology from the voting location are returned to the returning office after closing on election day.
- Ensure time sheets from the voting locations are returned to the returning office after closing on election day.

**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 13 hours on election day.
- Availability to work up to three hours the night before election day to set up and troubleshoot technology.
- 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 stand and work for long stretches of time (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.

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