Those planning an education programme must establish a staff team, no matter how small. In
programmes that are national in scope and which last for an extended period of time, staffing
occupies a particularly high priority. The major component of education budgets tends to be spent
on staff.
Where voter education programmes are run, it may be necessary to employ staff at short notice,
for short periods of time, and to forge a team out of a widely disparate group of individuals.
When the election authority that creates the team, or one or more nongovernmental organisations
(NGOs), the team is likely to be built around a small group of existing educators.
To overcome potential problems and to ensure that the staff is up and running as quickly as
possible, there has to be careful definition of jobs (see Job Definition and Profiling) and the establishment of
candidate profiles, Recruitment, and early Training and Orientation.
The teams created are likely to be formed of full-time, temporary, and voluntary staff, who require
special management (see Managing Staff and Volunteers).
Those who have human resources departments or stable staffs may want to ignore this section.
Those responsible for establishing educational teams will find material here to supplement more
general personnel issues.
