WE ARE HIRING!

Employer:

York University Graduate Students’ Association (YUGSA)

Position Title:

Polling Clerk, 2 positions available

Employment Type:

Contract (Termed), Non-Unionized.

Hours & Duration of Contract:

Up to 25 hours from March 21 to March 23.

Salary and Benefits

$20 per hour.

Application Submission & Deadline:

The YUGSA is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people historically marginalized based on and not limited to gender identification, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, size, race, class, LGBTQ2P, and anyone legally entitled to work in Canada.

Submit an electronic résumé in PDF format to YUGSA’s Chief Returning Officer at cro@yugsa.ca by 17th March 2023 at 11:59 PM (EST). You may submit a hardcopy to our office at the address below during office hours (10AM-1PM — 2PM-4PM) or slip under the door when the office is closed.

Suite 325 Student Centre - York University

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

Organization Description

YUGSA is an organization governed by York University’s graduate students. YUGSA is operated through levies charged to its membership. It strives to offer various opportunities and services back to its membership and community, including advocacy, financials, health, academic support and student movement campaigns.

Six annually elected executives run the organization, overlooked by a student council body. YUGSA works with the York University administration, Canadian Federation of Students, CUPE 3903, and other campus organizations.   Due to a high turnover of elected officials and the volume of work for the student executives, YUGSA has created 3 unionized permanent positions to provide it with institutional memory and to liaise, coordinate, and facilitate its day to day operations both internally and externally. In addition, various contract positions are recruited annually.

Job Description, Required Skills and Experience

Polling clerks are Contract Employees who are responsible for supporting the CRO in overseeing the voting process during the YUGSA election. This includes: presiding over voting stations, answering students’ questions about the voting process, assisting students with disabilities in exercising their right to vote as needed, ensuring that voting fraud does not occur, and assisting the Chief Returning Officer in related tasks.

Polling clerks are required to have experience in the following fields:

·       Experience with student elections

Duties are outlined below:

·       Report to the YUGSA Council.

·       Ensure that Elections Procedure Code and Guidelines is enforced.

·       Be in charge of operating polling stations.

·       Ensure that students interested in voting are eligible to vote in the YUGSA elections.

·       Conduct the Elections on days established by the Council and CRO.

·       Be ineligible to vote.

·       Not eligible to run for office in YUGSA Elections unless notice of resignation is given to the Executive fourteen (14) days before the opening of Nominations for such Elections or By-Elections.