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:

• Advance Ticket Sales: Pre-sale of next year’s tickets. Computer competence is required.
• Merchandise: Manage festival sales and keep inventory.  Great customer service necessary!
• Crowd Management: 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.
• Event Box Office: Provide customer service and banding resolution for RFID wristbands.
• Hospitality Services: Provide maintenance services for hospitality areas during the festival.
• Information Booth: Provide patrons and volunteers with information.  Manage Lost-and-Found items and patron surveys.
• Kid Zone: Manage the Kid Zone area, maintaining a safe and enjoyable place for patrons with their children.
• 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
• Site on Site: Our go-to team to get things taken care of during the event.  Moving chairs, fixing lights, emptying garbage cans, checking gates… they do it all! Busy should be the name of this team because they don’t stand around long!
• 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

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 meeting
Wednesday evening at the Sweet Home High School Auditorium and 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 (21) 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 either by Safeway cards or tokens to use onsite, from Thursday-Sunday.
• Two volunteer t-shirts.
• Festival wristband for each Camp Host.
• One (1) additional festival admission concert ticket provided at no cost.
• One (1) additional festival admission concert ticket offered at a discounted price
Any questions regarding Camp Host duties or responsibilities please contact Ryan by email at:
rwarden.sup.orjamboree@gmail.com

Volunteer Perks:

• Volunteers working longer than 5 hours 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.
• 2021 Additional volunteer shirts were pre-order only.  Last day to order was July 7th.  Please visit the onsite Volunteer Support Room at the Jamboree Event (not the office) to see if there are more shirts available for purchase.  No shirts will be sold at the Jamboree office at 401 Main St.
• 2021 Volunteer LINK to purchase discounted Camping.  Camping is first come, first serve.  Limited spots available. (Camp Hosts receive free camping)
• 2021 Volunteer LINK for discounted friend or family ticket. Note, purchase is limited to volunteers and any ticket purchased by someone other than the approved volunteer will be cancelled.  Final day to order will be Wednesday @ 5:00 pm the day before the event.  (Camp hosts will also receive (1) free friend/family festival pass)

Volunteer Sign Up Info & Requirements:

• You must have an activated profile to sign up for events (activation can take up to 2 weeks and sometimes longer)
• Directions for how to sign up to be a volunteer (just click blue box on this page): ON YOUR COMPUTER or ON YOUR PHONE
• All volunteers must work a minimum of 18 hours. 
• 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.

Supervisor Resources

Since 1992, the Oregon Jamboree has put on 28 Jamborees (1998 & 2020 were off years) and had more than 6500 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 2021!  

Please find them at the event and thank them from all of us! (Milestone years receive pins and onsite recognition on Sunday).

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

27 years: Deborah Maskal

26 years: Curtis Schwarze

25 years: Keith Currey, Lori Currey, Shari Smith

24 years: Daryl Davis, Michelle Gregory, Rob Poirier

23 years: Tony Lindsey

22 years: Carol Cromwell, Penny Leland, Carol Lindsey, Cassie Richey

21 years: Anita Hutchins, Bill Johnson, Jeff Maskal, Betty Schmidt, Pat Stineff

20 years: Jodi Hendry

19 years: Sean Morgan, Angela Weld

18 years: Candy Johnson, David O’Brien, Jim Reasons, Shari Reasons, Brenda Simmonds, Sharron Livengood

17 years: James Bryant, Donna Esser, Capri Moore, Brenda Murphy, Derrick Wodtli, Mendy Wodtli

16 years: Kelsey Matthews, Beth Matthews, Kristen Sim

15 years: Tom Avants, Aaron Hendry, Janet McKenzie, Sarah Shamek, Tanna Wright

14 years: Margaret Jarvis, Tina Larsen, Alex McClaskey, Michelle Petersen, Jordan Hagle

13 years: David Kem

12 years: Nichole Kirkpatrick, Alice Park, Jared Richey, Shirley Richey, Terry Riley, Ryan Warden, Sandy Hagle Brown

11 years: Mike Aman, Debbie Aman, Tammy Carter, Jeremiah Fisher, Regina Green, Glenda Hacker, Kellie Kem, Lori McAlpine, Greg Pelton, Melissa Pelton, Jeff Richey, Ethan Riley, Christina Smith, Vernell Warner, Adena Zook

10 years: John Jarvis, Josh McLean, Amber Orduna Zagal, Dianne Riggs, Lona Riley, John Smith, Leanne Stadeli, Matt Stadeli, Sharie Thompson, Jill Wagner, Dan Weber

*note, contact volunteer@oregonjamboree.com if you believe any of the above is in error or a volunteer is missed.