Do you love bringing people, places, and stories together? Are you someone who uses creativity, organization, and teamwork to help communities and destinations thrive?
The Clackamas County Office of Tourism, branded as Oregon’s Mt. Hood Territory, is seeking a Tourism Program Assistant to support programs, partnerships, and promotional activities that enhance tourism across the county. In this role, you will be supporting initiatives that showcase the region’s natural beauty, local businesses, and cultural experiences.
About the Role
This position supports the coordination and delivery of the Office of Tourism’s destination development, partner engagement, and marketing programs. Working across the team, the Tourism Program Assistant helps ensure initiatives are well-organized, data-informed, and effectively communicated to tourism partners.
In this role, the Tourism Program Assistant will contribute to a wide range of efforts—from supporting tourism investment programs and coordinating Tourism Development Council activities to assisting with partner communications, industry outreach, and marketing initiatives. This person will play a key role in gathering and synthesizing data, preparing reports and materials, and helping maintain programs that highlight the region’s assets and strengthen connections with local partners.
The Tourism Program Assistant also helps keep the department running smoothly by coordinating program logistics for the Destination Development and Community Relations team, managing communications such as the industry newsletter, and supporting event sponsorships, and marketing programs. This position works closely with multiple team members and offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful, community-focused work that supports a thriving tourism economy in Clackamas County. This position will report directly to the Tourism Manager and work closely with tourism staff to ensure programs, communications, and outreach initiatives are coordinated effectively.
What You Bring
The ideal candidate has strong organizational and communication skills, pays attention to detail, and has a passion for tourism, community relations and/or marketing. The candidate should possess strong writing and proofreading skills, be able to handle several tasks at once, and build good working relationships with partners and colleagues.
The ideal candidate should feel comfortable using standard office software, communication platforms, and databases. This person will also help with board meeting logistics, research, and basic data reporting.
This Job Posting closes at 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, April 6, 2026.
PAY AND BENEFITS
Annual Pay Range: $64,128.88 - $81,115.31
Clackamas County proudly offers an attractive compensation and benefits package, including competitive wages, cost-of-living adjustments, merit increases (for eligible employees), and a robust sick and vacation plan for regular status employees. We encourage and support employee health and wellness by offering, health and wellness classes and events, and alternative care benefits, so you can customize your wellness needs to fit your lifestyle. Employee benefits become effective on the first of the month following an employee’s date of hire.
