Voter Registration Clerk

Position Information

Looking for a flexible way to get involved?

The County of Sonoma's Registrar of Voters Office has multiple openings for Extra-Help Voter Registration Clerks
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If you're detail-oriented and enjoy working with people, apply today!

Start salary up to $28.65/hour*

Voter Registration Clerks perform a wide variety of routine tasks associated with registering voters and conducting elections, including:

• Providing customer service to poll workers
• Answering phone calls and questions from voters
• Comparing and verifying signatures along with proofreading related materials and documents
• Assigning poll workers to Vote Centers and training classes, along with helping with poll worker training
• Completing related forms and records, while doing computer research and data entry
• Sending out assignment letters and other mailings
• Extracting returned ballots and preparing ballots for counting
• Packing supplies for polling places

The ideal candidates for these positions will be comfortable learning new systems and communicating with hundreds, if not thousands, of people via email and phone. They will also possess many of the following:

• Strong data entry skills, with the ability to learn the Election Management System and Poll Worker Management System utilized in the Elections Office
• The ability to manage multiple activities concurrently and remain politically neutral
• The ability to work in small groups on detailed repetitive tasks
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel)
• Bilingual skills in Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, or Nepali desired, not required

Please note: Voter Registration Clerks need to have the ability and flexibility to work long hours, overtime, and weekends as needed throughout the election season. During peak election periods, staff are required to work a significant amount of overtime. Overtime can include evenings, weekends (both Saturdays and Sundays), holidays and early morning/late night hours.

Extra-help employees relieve or augment permanent staff. Intermittent, extra-help employees are not in the classified civil service and do not have property rights to permanently allocated positions. In addition, they do not receive most regular employee benefits such as: long-term disability insurance coverage; accrual of vacation; participation in the County retirement program; or eligibility to take promotional examinations.

Intermittent, extra-help employees are limited in their employment to a maximum of 1,380 hours within any twelve-month consecutive period.

Extra-help employees who meet the eligibility requirements may qualify for a County contribution toward medical coverage.

This recruitment is being conducted to fill multiple extra-help positions in the Registrar of Voters Office. This employment list may also be used to fill future extra-help positions as they occur during the active status of the list.

* Salary is negotiable within the established range.

Application submissions require the Supplemental Questionnaire to be completed.

Experience and

Education:

Any combination of education and/or experience which would provide the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and abilities listed.

License: Possession of a valid driver's license at the appropriate level including necessary special endorsements, as required by the State of California to perform the essential job functions of the position.

The position advertised on this announcement does require possession of a valid California Driver's License.

Knowledge of: modern office practices and procedures; office filing systems, such as alphabetic and numeric.

Ability to: follow oral and written instructions; read and decipher handwriting; read maps; perform a wide variety of routine clerical tasks, and operate office machines and telephones; establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the general public; make basic arithmetic calculations; type; lift and pick up election material and supplies.

Ability and willingness to: work long hours and weekends.

• Your application information and your responses to the supplemental questions are evaluated and taken into consideration throughout the entire selection process.
• You should list all employers and positions held within the last ten years in the work history section of your application. Be as thorough as possible when responding to the supplemental questions.
• You may include history beyond ten years if related to the position for which you are applying. If you held multiple positions with one employer, list out each position separately.
• Failure to follow these instructions may impact your competitiveness in this process or may result in disqualification.

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