GET INVOLVED

We have year around teams, teams that work primarily during the event, teams that work primarily before and after the event, and teams that serve our campers.  Descriptions below!

These teams work primarily during the event:

• Event Box Office and Advance Ticket Sales: Provide customer service and banding resolution for RFID wristbands. Pre-sale of next year’s tickets. Computer competence is required.
• Merchandise: Manage festival sales and keep inventory.  Great customer service necessary!
• Safety Team and Ushers: Provide a safe and enjoyable environment for all concert patrons. Greet and assist patrons with orderly chair placement, monitor wristbands and be available to answer questions and/or remedy problems patrons may have.
• Guest Services: Provide an enjoyable environment for all concert patrons. Greet patrons and be available to answer questions and/or remedy problems patrons may have. Monitor COVID-19 protocols.
• Hospitality Services: Provide maintenance services for hospitality areas during the festival.
  
• Information and First Aid Booth: Provide patrons and volunteers with information and basic first aid.  Manage Lost-and-Found items and patron surveys.
• Parking Team: Provide parking assistance/directions to patrons & volunteers, and monitoring check points for valid parking passes.
  
• Banding Resolution: Provide excellent customer service for RFID bands on the field. Computer competence is required.
• Site Clean Team: Our go-to team to get things taken care of during the event.  Moving chairs, picking up trash, fixing lights, emptying garbage cans, checking gates… they do it all! 
• Stagehands: Unload trucks, set-up musical equipment and assist in backstage production needs.  Heavy lifting required.
• Volunteer Hospitality: Monitor volunteer eating area and provide breakfasts during the event to our fabulous volunteers.
• Sponsor Hospitality: Handing out snacks, wiping down tables, working with security on ID checks, and over all friendliness are the jobs in this area. 

These teams work before and after the event and are on-call during the event. 

• Camp Marking Team: Pre-event campground set-up.  Must be able to work the weekend before event from 7am-5pm.  Long, hot days, but you’re done before the music starts!
• Signs: Install directional signs on streets and highways and install banners on-site. Must be able to work the week before and the Monday after the event.
• Site Set-Up/Tear-Down: Provide various construction related tasks.  This team will do everything from setting up the chairs and fences, to marking fields and operating heavy machinery. Shifts begin as early as the Friday before the week of the event and concludes the week following the event.
• Stage Build/Tear Down: Build the stage before the event and tear down the stage after the event alongside professional stage builders.
• Water Systems Team: Set up and take down of water connections for all services on the event grounds.  Basically mobile plumbers.

These teams serve our Campers:

• Camp Hosts: More information on camp hosts below.

• Camping Support: Part of the Camp Host team, you assist the Camp Host Supervisors in setting up.  This includes stocking supply totes for the campgrounds, transporting the totes, light towers, ATV’s, and safety equipment (some weighing up to 40#) to and from the campgrounds and aid in setting up the equipment. Also includes helping with meals for camp hosts before and throughout the event.  Must have a vehicle with a two inch (2″) ball and the ability to tow light towers and ATV trailers to and from campground

CAMP HOST TEAMS NEEDED
Camp Hosts are the first contacts of the Oregon Jamboree guest, to get them settled into their camp sites,
and oriented for the weekend. The Camp Host is often the face of the Oregon Jamboree and need to maintain a
positive, friendly attitude throughout the event weekend.
Camp Hosts may arrive any time after 9:00 am on Wednesday to set up their camp before the New Camp Hosts meeting
Wednesday evening at the Sweet Home High School Track.   They may leave after the campground is clear and
cleaned up on Monday morning.
Camp Hosts check in with their Supervisor or the Lead Camp Host in their campground.
Camp Host must supply their own RV or tent, and every Camp Host must be at least twenty-one (18) years
of age.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Greet & sign in campers, collect camping tickets, and sell additional parking tickets, per Jamboree financial policy.
• Assist our camping guests and ensure they find their correct campsite, answer questions, settle minor disputes & police camp area as necessary.

BENEFITS
• Meals provided or compensated for.
• Two volunteer t-shirts.
• 3-Day festival wristband for each Camp Host.
• One (1) additional 3-Day festival admission wristband provided at no cost.
• Two (2) additional 3-Day festival admission wristbands offered at a discounted price.

Any questions regarding Camp Host duties or responsibilities please contact Ryan by email at:
[email protected]

Volunteer Perks:

• Volunteers working longer than 5 hours shifts during the Jamboree weekend will receive meals while working. 
• All Volunteers receive (1) free volunteer shirt (please don’t alter).  Camp hosts will receive (2) free volunteer shirts.
• 2023 Additional volunteer shirts will be pre-order only.  Please visit the onsite Merchandise Tent at the Oregon Jamboree Event to see if there are more shirts available for purchase.  No shirts will be sold at the Oregon Jamboree office at 401 Main St.
• 2023 Volunteer link to purchase discounted Camping, will be open May 1st.  Camping is first come, first serve.  Limited spots available. (Camp Hosts receive free camping).
• 2023 Volunteer link to purchase up to two discounted friends or family 3-Day festival wristband for $100 will be open on May 1st.
  • Purchase is limited to volunteers and any ticket purchased by someone other than the approved volunteer will be cancelled.
  • Camp hosts will also receive (1) free friend/family 3-day festival wristband.

Volunteer Sign Up Info & Requirements:

• You must submit an application to be considered for a team.
  • Please be aware, your application may take up to 30 days to review. If you have not had any contact after 30 days, please email [email protected].
• To submit an application, click on the blue button above and apply through Eventeny.
• All volunteers must work a minimum of 18 hours to receive the perks. 
• If the team you are requesting is not listed above, you must use the name of the supervisor in the referral section to be added to the team.

Volunteer Resources

Since 1992, the Oregon Jamboree has put on 29 Jamborees (1998 & 2020 were off years) and had more than 6,500 volunteers help us out.  Some work for one or two years and we are grateful for their help.  Some stay for the long haul, never missing an opportunity to lend a hand.  Friends talk friends into volunteering.  Parents assign their teenage children so they learn how to give back to the community.  Community leaders join in to serve and have a great time!  We depend on all of them!

These volunteers have stood the test of time and are still volunteering in 2023!  

Please find them at the event and thank them from all of us! 

(Milestone years receive pins and onsite recognition on Sunday).

31 years: Peggy Emmert, Debbie Jensen, Larry Johnson, Daryl Nothiger, Donna Poirier

30 years: 

29 years: 

28 years: 

27 years: Michelle Gregory

26 years: Rob Poirier

25 years: Carol Cromwell

24 years: Anita Hutchins, Betty Schmidt

23 years: 

22 years: Sean Morgan, Angela Weld

21 years: Jim Reasons, Sherry Reasons, Brenda Simmons

20 years: Sharron Livengood, Capri Moore, Derrick Wodtli, Mendy Wodtli

19 years: Kristen Sim, Debbie Tornow

18 years: Nicole Kirkpatrick, Sarah Shamek

17 years: Jordan Hagle, Tina Larsen

16 years: David Kem

15 years: Evan Holden, Alice Park, Shirley Richey, Terry Riley, Ryan Warden

14 years: Jeremiah Fisher, Regina Green, Kellie Kem, Greg Pelton, Melissa Pelton

13 years: Sally Carpenter, Tammy Carter, Renae Hoover, Tiffany Lynn, Amber Orduna Zagal, Lona Riley, John Smith, Leann Stadeli, Matt Stadeli

12 years: Kristine Coffin, Richard Coffin, Doug Emmert, Joshua Mayer, Ed Norman, Jennifer Norman, Sandie Quella, Bill Rice, Sydney Spaulding, Kyle Sullens

11 years: Julie Bishop, Larry Crist, Savanna Hawkes, Terry Hoover, Debra Nickless, Lori Pallister, Lisa Parr, Gina Riley, Samantha Spencer, Andy Waldrop

10 years: Layla Boswell, Penny Burns, Julie Crocker, Debra Culbertson, Melissa Dalebout, Michael Jarvis, Matthew Jensen, Damon Olsen, Kristen Olsen, Kayla Schaefer, Sharon Schallig, Ashley Stewart, Randy Sullivan

*note, contact [email protected] if you believe any of the above is in error or a volunteer is missed.