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.
• 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 Oregon Jamboree guests to get them settled into their campsites and oriented for the weekend. The Camp Host is often the face of the Oregon Jamboree and needs to maintain a positive, friendly attitude throughout the event weekend. 

Camp Hosts may arrive any time after 2 PM on Wednesday to set up their camp, and can leave after the campground is clear of campers and cleaned up on Monday. All Camp Hosts must attend the all-hands kick-off meeting on Wednesday evening. New Camp Hosts must attend new Camp Host orientation Wednesday evening after the all-hands meeting. 

Camp Hosts must supply their own RV or tent and camping supplies including water containers, shade, and chairs. Camp Host must be at least eighteen (18) years of age (under 18 allowed with Supervisor approval and direct adult supervision). 

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

• Breakfast Thursday morning and meal per diem.

• Two volunteer t-shirts.

• Double occupancy campsite. 

• Festival wristband for each Camp Host.

• One (1) additional festival admission wristband provided at no cost.

• Two (2) additional festival admission wristbands offered at a discounted price.

• Early access to festival merchandise. 

Questions regarding Camp Host duties or responsibilities please contact your camp host team at camphost@oregonjamboree.com.

Volunteer Perks:

• Volunteers working longer than 5 hours shifts during the festival 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.
• 2025 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.
• 2025 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).
• 2025 Volunteer link to purchase up to two discounted friends or family 3-Day festival wristband 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 volunteer@oregonjamboree.com.
• 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 30 Jamborees (1998 & 2020 were off years) and had more than 7,000 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 2024!  

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

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

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

31 years:

30 years: 

29 years: 

28 years: Michelle Gregory

27 years: Rob Poirier

26 years: Carol Cromwell

25 years: Anita Hutchins, Betty Schmidt

24 years: 

23 years: Sean Morgan, Angela Weld

22 years: Brenda Simmonds

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

20 years: Debbie Tornow

19 years: Nicole Kirkpatrick, Sarah Shamek

18 years: Jordan Hagle, Tina Larsen

17 years: David Kem

16 years: Evan Holden, Terry Riley, Ryan Warden

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

14 years: Tammy Carter, Renae Hoover, Tiffany Lynn, Josh McLean, Amber Orduna Zagal, Lona Riley, John Smith, Leann Stadeli

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

12 years: Kelsey Bunker, Larry Crist, Debra Nickless, Lori Pallister, Gina Riley, Samantha Spencer, Andy Waldrop

11 years: Layla Boswell, Christy Bunker, Penny Burns, Julie Crocker, Debra Culbertson, Melissa Dalebout, Damon Olsen, Kristen Olsen, Kayla Schaefer, Sharon Schallig, Ashley Stewart, Randy Sullivan

10 years: Chris Forum, Sarah Kessler, Amberlly Todd, Tiffany Virtue, Brienz Zerby

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