Help us keep this event from being "stuck in the mud"! Assist staff with keeping this year's Mud Day activities running smoothly! Provide support throughout the duration of the event to ensure participants get the most out of this family friendly activity.
Impact
Special Event volunteers serve a critical role in ensuring that events and large-scale programs run smoothly. Your efforts to respond to active needs during the event increase enjoyment for fellow volunteers, staff and participants alike!
Tasks
- Check in with the staff leads for an overview of the event, assessment of needs, and task instruction.
- Assist with remaining setup, teardown, or station preparation as needed.
- Walk around the event welcoming participants, providing event information, and checking in with staff, volunteers, and performers.
- Help keep activity lines short by directing participants to other activities when one is crowded.
- Support staff and volunteers by answering questions when able or directing questions or concerns to the staff lead, retrieving supplies, and providing quick breaks as needed.
- Provide additional support to activity stations that are busy and fill in for missing volunteers where needed.
Eligibility
This opportunity is open to individual, public, long-term, or short term volunteers, ages 16. Simply click the blue RESPOND button to sign up or click here to learn more about becoming a volunteer.
- Background Check: We do not require a background check for our public volunteer opportunities; however, persons with a criminal record may be disqualified and prohibited from service. Please review our background check policy here. For those required to complete Court Appointed Community Service, please click here.
Additional Notes
- Parking & Meeting Instructions: Volunteers should park in the main parking lot in front of the Administrative building and meet with the staff lead at Skeeter's Garden. Please plan to arrive 10 minutes before your shift to allow for parking, checking in, and connecting with the staff lead.
- Cancelation: If you need to cancel a shift at the last minute or are running late, please call staff lead, Haily Hayslip at 937-631-8131.
- Environment & Physical Demands: Physical duties include standing, walking, and lifting 25 pounds or more to help tear down and put away event materials.
- Dress: Please wear closed-toe shoes, your volunteer name badge, and if you have one, your green or blue volunteer T-shirt. Reusable volunteer vests will be provided for volunteers onsite.
Learn more about Special Events opportunities with us on the Volunteer Position page! Have questions or need help getting started? Contact Volunteer Services at volunteer.services@metroparks.org or #937-275-7275 or join us at a Volunteer Open House.
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