ELECTION ASSISTANT (Warehouse)

  • Job ID: 61144
    Job Category: Administrative
    Division & Section: City Clerk's, City Clerk's Elections Services
    Work Location: Elections Services Office, 89 Northline Rd East York, ON M4B 3G1
    Job Type & Duration: 11 Full-Time, Temporary (5 month) Vacancies
    Hourly Rate: $27.15 - $29.59
    Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 Hours per Week
    Affiliation: L79 Full-Time
    Number of Positions Open: 11
    Posting Period: 13-Mar-2026 to 27-Mar-2026


Major Responsibilities:

 

  • Works as part of a team to ensure voting place supplies are complete and accurate.
  • Loads/unloads election supplies and equipment such as paper products, cardboard, equipment, boxes, furniture, etc.
  • Operates city vehicles to deliver and pick up election supplies and equipment as directed.
  • Sorts, assembles and packs supplies, equipment and furniture as directed.
  • Sets up furniture, equipment and supplies.
  • Checks and verifies supplies and equipment required to ensure quality control of election products such as ballots, election cart, voter's lists and voting place supplies.
  • Operates and assists in the testing of election voting equipment and systems.
  • Performs clerical duties such as customer service, data input, photocopying/faxing, sorting, collating, filing etc.

 

 

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

  1. Experience processing, sorting and delivering supplies and equipment in a warehouse or similar environment.
  2. Ability to lift repetitively materials weighing up to 50 lbs.
  3. Experience working in a customer service and team environment, effectively dealing with the public and staff, responding to inquiries both in person.
  4. Experience using Microsoft Office applications (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook), including working within a Windows operating-system environment.
  5. Experience with inventory and/or asset tracking system.
  6. Experience working with voting systems and other voting technologies is an asset.

 

 

You must also have:

  • Ability to perform inventory control including quality assurances.
  • Strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as cooperatively as part of a team.
  • Ability and willingness to work overtime and/or shifts as necessary.
  • Ability to stand for long periods of time.
  • Will be required to travel between two election warehouses.
  • Good organizational and multi-tasking skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects in fast-paced environment.
  • Ability and willingness to work in all types of weather conditions.
  • Good communication skills and ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
  • Access to a personal vehicle and ability to travel to various work locations across the City of Toronto.

 

 

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