February 26, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Census Bureau Now Hiring
DECATUR – The U.S. Census Bureau is looking to fill between 100 and 150 part time jobs to help complete the 2010 U.S. Census.
The Census Bureau is now conducting testing at the Main St. Church of the Living God, 200 N. Church St. in Decatur at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday and at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Some workers will be required to go door to door as part of their job duties as actual census takers and there are a number of other positions available, including crew leaders and crew leader assistants, recruiting assistants and census clerks.
Job descriptions are as follows:
- Census Taker – Locate households, conduct interviews with respondents, record responses and meet with crew leaders to turn in completed work and payroll forms.
- Census Crew Leader – Train and supervise census takers and crew leader assistants, meet daily with census takers to review assignments and approve daily payroll records and ensure that census procedures are followed.
- Census Crew Leader Assistant – Assist crew leaders by performing delegated tasks (e.g. meeting with census takers to review work and answer questions), perform some of the same fieldwork as census takers.
- Recruiting Assistant – Promote census jobs to recruit new applicants, locate, set up and run applicant employment testing sessions, ask community organizations to donate space for testing and training and review and send applicants’ materials to and from the local census office.
Workers will not exceed 40 hours of census work per week and jobs pay $10-$13 per hour.
“The census is critically important to our community and I would encourage residents to apply for these jobs,” said Mayor Mike McElroy. “The census will help communities receive more than $300 billion for important functions such as hospitals, schools, job training centers and street repairs, funding for which in a lot of cases is dependent upon having an accurate count of your city’s population.
“In Decatur alone census data was used to help us fund neighborhood security cameras, CDBG programs that repaired roofs, porches, windows and furnaces for our low to moderate income residents and it helped provide funding to pay for senior services and improvement projects like the Garfield Avenue bridge rehabilitation.”
For more information contact the local census office at 217-241-7390 or 1-866-861-2010. Or, you can visit www.2010censusjobs.gov for additional information.
For media inquiries call Billy Tyus at 424-2753.