Elections Technician II - Services

If you previously applied to this posting, reapplication is not required. All applications will be reviewed as part of the selection process.

The Riverside County Department of Registrar of Voters is seeking an Elections Technician I - Services for the Operations Division, EO Polls Warehouse Unit at the Riverside location.

PLEASE NOTE: The position may require full‑time office presence for several months leading up to, during, and after elections due to the high workload. The role may involve working weekends and holidays, including mandatory overtime during election and post‑election periods. Travel throughout the county may be required. Outside of election season, employees may choose a 4/10, 9/80, or 5/40 workweek schedule, with the option of a hybrid schedule based on business needs.

Flexibility working overtime, weekends, and holidays is required.

The Elections Technician II - Services will be responsible for performing a wide range of warehouse operations tasks through a blend of office‑based tasks and hands‑on logistics such as coordinating and maintaining contracts with potential vote‑center sites, managing high‑volume inbound and outbound calls, performing inventory/asset management of election supplies including quality control and imaging of laptops, and performing general warehouse operations for supply management.

This role requires occasional travel throughout Riverside County for vote‑center site coordination, neighborhood surveying, and tasks related to supply management.

The most competitive candidate will have previous election cycle experience, knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Publisher), Adobe, and California Elections Codes, and previous experience with inventory/asset management and data entry. Previous warehouse experience and demonstrated knowledge of process improvement in previous roles is preferred.

• Communicates with potential vote‑center staff, elected officials, and members of the public to procure and maintain vote‑center and vote‑by‑mail drop‑off facility contracts.
• Answers telephones and responds to routine telephone inquiries; refers callers to appropriate supervisor or informational source for more detailed information.
• Proofreads and provides data for official materials and documents to be shared with members of the public.
• Stores, inventories, manages, and/or retrieves a variety of election materials and equipment.
• Assists, directs, and instructs the public with information regarding polls/precinct locations, and in the more difficult or unique elections processes and legal procedures required by a variety of municipal, special district, State, and/or Federal mandates.
• Prepares, inspects, and stages for outbound and return of electronic vote‑center equipment and supplies.
• Assists in the assembly of vote‑center supplies and materials.
• Assembles various boxes and materials needed to conduct elections.
• Distributes election supplies including, but not limited to, computer paper, copier paper, voter registration cards, envelopes, etc.
• Prepares outdated voting material scheduled for destruction, including voted and unvoted official ballots, sample ballots, state pamphlets, and office forms, by boxing, palletizing, shrink‑wrapping and loading onto recycling vehicles.
• Receives, inventories, maintains, and separates all official election supplies and materials.
• Restocks and regularly inventories all equipment and supplies in warehouse and/or storage facilities.
• Maintains filing system of incoming and outgoing material (inventory).
• Stores inventory and repairs election equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Supervises, trains, and directs the work of temporary and/or seasonal warehouse workers during high workload and peak election times, when instructed.

• 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…