JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announced Wednesday plans to advertise the job of “nonpartisan demographer” — the person who will redraw state legislative maps after the 2020 census.

The demographer is a position approved by voters in 2018 as part of the Amendment 1, or Clean Missouri, ballot initiative.

Galloway will begin accepting applications on Sept. 5. The deadline to apply for the job is Dec. 4. As outlined in the constitutional amendment, Galloway, a Democrat, said her office would give the names of at least three applicants to the Missouri Senate majority and minority leaders in January.

The two Senate leaders will make the hiring decision.

Galloway said the position should be housed in the state Office of Administration, not the auditor’s office. The Office of Administration, which is controlled by Gov. Mike Parson, had not responded to a letter from Galloway expressing this, her office said.

Republicans had argued that a bipartisan panel, rather than an appointed demographer, should decide how state House and Senate maps are drawn.