The council has opened recruitment for canvassers to help carry
out its annual audit of the electoral register to ensure everyone
who is entitled to vote in all types of elections is registered and
able to do so.
The canvassing process involves visiting households in
Peterborough over a two-week period from Saturday 15 to Monday 31
October to collect completed electoral registration forms. The
information that is collected from the forms provides the data for
the electoral register.
You must be available to work throughout the period between
Saturday 15 to Monday 31 October during the evenings and weekends
and be available to attend a two hour training session either in
the morning or the afternoon on Friday 7 October.
Potential canvassers will:
- Have excellent communication skills
- Be active and physically fit
- Be professional, tactful and polite
- Be reliable and honest
- Have clear, legible handwriting and good attention to
detail
- Be eligible to work in the UK
Payment will be performance related. For a full job description
and person specification and further information about the
canvasser role please download the forms below.
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Canvasser job description and person specification
(68KB, 5 pages)
Interested in canvassing
(23KB, 2 pages)
If you would like to apply to be a canvasser please complete the
expression of interest form below and email it to electoralservices@peterborough.gov.uk
by Monday 19 September 2011.
Election staff expression of interest form
(32KB, 1 pages)
Elections
The Returning Officer for the City of Peterborough will also
need people to carry out various duties at election time which is
nearly always the first Thursday in May. This may involve working
at a polling station which is open from 7am to 10pm, assisting with
opening postal votes or counting ballot papers overnight.
If you are interested in working at elections please complete
the attached expression of interest form or email electoralservices@peterborough.gov.uk for
further information.