With just over two months to go until Queensland‘s state elections, residents have the potential to earn up to $900 a day working casually for the Electoral Commission.
The commission is recruiting for thousands of roles, right across the state, that require no previous experience.
The major recruitment drive is looking to employ 15,000 temporary workers ahead of Queensland going to the polls on October 26.
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“If you’re a pretty advanced supervisor, you can make up to $900 a day,” Wade Lewis from the Electoral Commission said.
“If you want to count votes, for example, it could be up to $200 a day for four or five hours of work.”
The roles are varied and for many positions, no experience is needed – and you may even get paid for some training.
However, there are a few requirements: you must be over the age of 18, an Australian citizen who is enrolled to vote and politically neutral.
“You could be involved for example in helping to set up a polling booth, to put up the voting screens, to set up the IT equipment, to help one of the returning officers who runs the elections set up their office,” Lewis said.
“You could be actually talking to the public as they come into the polling booths and helping to manage the queues, or you could be on the desk actually issuing votes to people.”
There are also jobs available in the weeks leading up to the October 26 poll.
The jobs are available to view and apply on the Electoral Commission of Queensland‘s website under the ‘working at an election’ tab.
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