TEMPORARY ELECTIONS TECH III-SERVICES

Location:	Riverside, CA,
Employee Type:	Temporary
Pay Range:	$15 to $15 per Hour (USD)
Experience:	2 - 5 years
Education:	Highschool GED
Travel Required:	none

To serve the voting and candidate public by performing a variety of specialized clerical and computerized elections services; to provide direction, procedures, and elections information to and for the public, government officials, nominees, candidates, and others; and to perform other duties and services, as assigned, within the confines of elections services. The Elections Technician - Services Series is assigned to the Elections Office of the County Clerk-Recorder/Registrar's Department. Positions in this series perform a wide range of clerical tasks in the assignment and review of voter and/or candidate material and provide technically complex guidance to the public, government officials, and others having authority or interest in the elections process. Classes in the Elections Technicians - Services Series are distinguished from other clerical classes by the independent judgment, criticality, and elections code knowledge required for accurate and timely review, implementation, and certification of election papers and documents necessary for the voting public and nominating officials under the legally mandated elections process. This series is further distinguished from Elections Technician - Operations Series by the latter's assignment to more labor intensive tasks; and the specialized technical, and/or trade training, required at upper levels. This is an advanced journey and an allocated level in the series. In addition to performing the full range of election processes, incumbents are assigned as staff specialists, and may be assigned lead responsibility for, a more complex, specialized election function. These specialized services include, but are not limited to: Voter Services, Nomination Services, Candidate Services, Elections Calendaring Services. Elections Technician III - Services is distinguished from the Supervising Elections Technician - Services by the latter's responsibility for full first-line supervision over staff. Under general supervision, positions in this class are singularly responsible for an advanced and specialized elections process duty, requiring associated interpretive oral and written explanations, directives, and communications to the voting public and/or candidates, in order to facilitate timely and legally mandated completion. Duties assigned require: the full-scope knowledge of the overall and ongoing cyclical elections process; a continued responsibility for elections interpretation to provide oral presentations to the public, elections officers, and others; and to assist with the full span of elections processes in an interchange of unit assignments during peak and critical time frames. Positions in the class are expected to have knowledge of, and assist with, the full election process, in an interchange of unit assignments during peak and critical election time frames. **************************************************************
Reviews reports, records, and other documents, per assigned area, for clarity, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and conformance with department and election procedures. Coordinates work activities of assignment with other Elections Office sections to prevent delays and in response to mandated time lines. Locates, evaluates, and arranges for sites for polling places; ensures that regulations and guidelines for accessibility for incapacitated and elderly voters are met. Prepares voting materials for elections services. Prepares charts, reports, instruction manuals, audio-visual material for the purpose of training election precinct workers. Provides forms and instructions to candidates, current office holders, and committees. Prepares, processes and forwards reports and/or documents to the Secretary of State, as required by law. Conducts or assists with Elections and/or Voter education training sessions, as required. Provides technical information and guidance on elections procedures. May supervise the assembling of training material for distribution. Issues, accepts, reviews candidates' documents; collects and receipts nomination fees, candidate statement deposits. Accepts, audits, reviews, and maintains a variety of the more complex elections documentation and revised legislation files and systems, which may include but are not limited to, campaign disclosure, polls/precinct locations, nominations, elections calendaring, elections officers, candidate filings, etc. Prepares and assists in dissemination of material for publications, translation, typesetting. Coordinates with jurisdictions for the conduct of elections. Prepares and maintains elections files for all federal, State, cities, schools, and special districts. Maintains and manually and/or electronically updates a variety of data for specific assignment (e.g., Nominations, Candidate Filings, etc.). Resolves technical problems to improve procedural methods, equipment performance, and quality of product for specific area assigned, whether Election Calendars, Candidate Filings, Precincts and Polling Places, and/or Election Officer lists. Assures documentation for assigned area is properly captured on records retention and retrieval system and that archival copies are maintained for security purposes. May assist in or conduct instructional seminars for schools, cities, special districts, and other federal, State or County elections. May investigate reports, unsatisfactory voting conditions, safety problems, and accidents at polling places before and/or on elections days. **************************************************************
Knowledge of: Modern office practices and procedures; Operation of standard office equipment, including word processing, computerized data systems and terminology; Current English usage (grammar, spelling, and punctuation); Filing, indexing, and cross referencing methods; Proper telephone techniques; Procedures for dissemination of appropriate information to the public; Basic California State and federal elections procedures; General function of the elections work unit to which assigned; Procedures for dissemination of elections information to the public, candidates, and/or government officials; Elections deadlines and criticalities; General ballot requirements and ballot tabulating methods; Basic arithmetic; Research methods; Functions of a Registrar of Voter's Office; Full span of Federal, California State Elections, and County elections codes policies and procedures; Elections planning and development, including critical deadlines and ramifications of failures; Ballot tabulating methods; General work scheduling methods, including visual charting and techniques of coordinating work tasks; Recordkeeping for documentation purposes; Procedures for elections calendaring criteria; Working procedures related to the administration of elections in the State of California; Uses of electronic data processing in election activities; Equipment used in the administration of elections (ballot tabulations, etc.); Principles and techniques of establishing and maintaining public relations. Ability to: Perform general clerical work; Understand and follow both written and oral instructions; Perform data entry and other computerized and or information processing tasks; Learn office operations, including ongoing working and procedural changes; Alphabetize and file documents according to system directions; Concisely and efficiently obtain, record, and relay information from the public and community and government officials served; Read, understand, explain procedures, forms, and processes with tact and courtesy to the general public and government officials; Speak English at a level for effective job performance; Learn to perform diverse clerical and technical elections operations tasks required by the office; Learn to operate a variety of unique computerized output and/or electronic imaging equipment of the elections office; Learn to perform equipment adjustments, if and as needed; Read and understand applicable elections codes and instructions; Make decisions in standard elections procedural matters without immediate supervision; Prepare and maintain accurate records and reports; Make arithmetical calculations rapidly and accurately; Establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships; Communicate in English and at the professional level of the Elections Office with the voting public, candidates, elected and government officials; Read, understand, and interpret a variety of Elections Code directives and procedures; Independently research and prepare concise written narrative and/or statistical reports; Provide clear, concise reports, and schedules, both orally and in writing; Independently communicate and direct the voting, nominating public, and officials in the interpreted methods required by Elections Code; Operate and maintain a full variety of elections equipment; Plan and organize a full and/or unique work assignment along with providing assistance to a public and other working peers during critical work load periods; Develop, coordinate, plan, and maintain the elections calendaring process; Coordinate varying workloads to meet legally mandated deadlines; Understand, interpret and explain procedures related to the calendaring, nominations, candidate filing, fees, legislature, and other specialized assignment of the Elections Office to the general public, candidates, and other government officials; Maintain good working and professionally efficient relationships with a variety of the public and political representatives. Experience: One year experience as an Elections Technician II in Riverside County; OR Two years full-time experience with a municipal, County, or State elections office; OR Three years full-time clerical experience and work with data entry and/or computerized systems two of which must have included the responsibility for communicating or explaining information or procedures to the public. Substitution: One year of the required three years clerical experience may be substituted by either of the following: Completion of either 9 semester or 18 quarter units from a recognized college in secretarial sciences, office practices, business education, or a closely related field; OR Completion of 360 hours of training from recognized occupational training program in secretarial sciences, business education, or a closely related field. *********************************************

Skill: Sufficient keyboard or typing skill to enable the applicant to complete 35 net words per minute may be required. ********************************************
For specific questions regarding this position, contact the recruiter listed in this posting. All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment physical exam, including a drug/alcohol test, and a criminal background investigation, including fingerprinting. (A felony or misdemeanor conviction related to the position may disqualify the applicant from County employment). Required Probationary Period - As an Approved Local Merit System, the County of Riverside requires all new regular or seasonal employees to serve an initial probationary period, the duration of which is indicated in the applicable Memorandum of Understanding, County Resolution, or Salary Ordinance. Temporary and Per Diem employees serve at the pleasure of the agency/department head. The County of Riverside is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of the County of Riverside to provide employment opportunity for all qualified persons. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, ancestry, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, or denial of medical and family care leave, or any other non job-related factor. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: The County of Riverside is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). Qualified individuals with disabilities who need a reasonable accommodation during the application or selection process should contact the recruiter listed on the job posting. For additional information and/or to obtain the appropriate form for requesting a reasonable accommodation, please visit the Disability Access Office web page located at: http://dao.rc-hr.com/. ****CURRENT COUNTY EMPLOYEES MUST USE THEIR EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE ACCOUNT TO APPLY.**** *******************************************
For the first 1,000 hours of work in a fiscal year, the employee is enrolled in and contributes to the County Temporary/Part-Time Employees' Retirement Plan, which is a 401(a) defined benefit pension plan. The County also contributes to the 401(a) on behalf of the employee. During this time, neither the employee nor the County pays into Social Security, and the employee is not enrolled in CalPERS. After 1,000 hours of work in any fiscal year, the employee and County stop contributing to the 401(a) and begin to pay into Social Security. The employee is also enrolled in CalPERS and begins to make contributions. Please note that temporary assignment hourly rates are approximately 5.5% less than the posted pay rate range listed in the general County of Riverside job descriptions ******************************************