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The U.S. Census Bureau has opened three census offices in New York to carry out early 2010 operations and is looking for qualified applicants to fill more than 3,500 jobs across the state. The local census offices are located in Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse. Positions include address listers, office clerks, recruiting assistants, crew leaders and field operations supervisors.

The census employees will help develop an address list in spring 2009. The address list will be used to deliver census questionnaires in 2010. The jobs are temporary; some are full time and others part time. Census jobs offer flexible schedules and allow close-to-home employment. Pay starts at $12.25 per hour and varies by job and location.

 

Those interested in applying for these jobs will find job descriptions, qualifications and applications on the 2010 Census Web site .  Applicants must be U.S. citizens, age 18 and older, and pass a basic aptitude test. Most jobs require a valid driver's license and use of a car.

"It's important that we have qualified people who know their communities to help develop our confidential address list" said Kathleen Ludgate, regional director for the Boston Regional Census Center, which supports 2010 Census operations in New England, upstate New York and Puerto Rico. "These important jobs offer good pay, allow flexible hours and permit people to work in their communities, for their communities. Census jobs count in many ways."

Census results are used to determine the number of congressional seats for each state, the shape of legislative districts and local government districts, and how $300 billion in federal funds is distributed annually to communities across the country.

In 2009, the Census Bureau will open 8 additional offices in New York to carry out the 2010 Census. Nationwide, the Census Bureau will open nearly 500 offices during peak census activities.

The current wave of hiring for the address list development will be followed by a second wave of hiring that will begin next year and continue into 2010. The second wave of hiring will be mainly for census takers. The census takers will go door to door to collect confidential information from people who have not returned their census questionnaires by mail.

April 1, 2010 is Census Day, the reference date for collecting census information.

 

 

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