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Employment 

You know you love the fair, why not work here?

We hire hundreds of seasonal employees for our award-winning Fair each year. The Fair offers a wide variety of positions and flexible shifts, so come join us this summer!

If you are interested in year-round employment, please visit our year-round employment page for our current openings and Fair internships.

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Internships

SALARY: $18 per hour
AVAILABLE: May through July 2024

POSITION SCOPE:

As the Marketing & Box Office Intern, you’ll gain hands-on admissions and marketing experience at the largest event center in the East Bay Area! Events include Fair admission, concerts and festivals. Reporting to the Marketing Director, this is a seasonal part time position beginning in May and concluding July 15. You will work with the admissions and marketing team, fulfilling ticket requests, assisting in creating a positive guest experience at the gates, learning ticketing procedures for large scale events, work tasting fests as well as nightly concerts. It is approximately 16 to 25 hours per week increasing to 35-40 hours per week during our annual Fair (June 14-July 7).

Complete position details

Admissions

$17.50/hr

Guest-focused support with mobile device scanners and ticket printers at Admission gates, concerts, tasting fests and horse racing.

$18.50/hr

Manages Admission gates team and guest support, scans tickets and manages ticket printers. Supervisory experience and ability to manage guest entry experience required.

$17.50/hr

Guest-focused support for entry into the Amphitheater for nightly concerts or Grandstand for horse racing and tasting fests.

Administration

Requires computer & people skills

$17.50/hr

Audits and prepares reports of food vendor transactions. Must have register and POS system experience and be proficient in Excel with an attention to detail.

$17.00/hr

Assists volunteers and the implementation of our Volunteer Program, including check in/out, support and scheduling

*Requires computer & people skills

Exhibits & Programs

$16.50/hour

Supports multiple buildings in the Exhibits area. Provides information and answers guest questions, safely monitors entrances and exits and prepares competitive entries. Helps set-up, maintain and clean buildings.

$16.50/hour

Cares for, sells and educates guests about the small animals.

$17.50/hour

Performs physical work helping to set and teardown for livestock shows. Daily cleaning and maintenance of the livestock area.

Must be able to lift up to 20 lbs.

$17.50/hour

Helps with set up, maintenance and tear down of exhibit spaces and community programming.

Must be able to lift up to 20 lbs.

$17.50/hr –

Must be 18+

Shuttles entertainers/vendors around Fairgrounds. Transports equipment with a pushcart to and from entrance gates to designated areas.

Must be able to lift up to 20 lbs and push a cart up to 500 yards.

$17.50/hr –

Guest-focused support for seating in our amphitheater. 

Must be 18+
Must be able to stand for the duration of the concert

Guest Services

$17.50/hour

Provides guests with information, handles questions/concerns. Supervises lost children.

$17.50/hr

Assists with vendor check-in/out and day-to-day operations of the office. Monitors the Commercial Sales buildings and assists with keeping them clean.

Parking

$18.00/hr

Directs traffic, assigns vehicles to parking spaces and verifies credentials.

$18.00/hr

Greets guests, assists with purchases and scans tickets.

Must be 18+
Background check required

$18.00/hr

Assists Fair patrons on/off the trams in a safe and responsible manner.

$18.00/hr

Provides guest transportation from parking lots to entry gates. Drives in a responsible manner.

Must be 18+
DMV check required

$18.00/hr

Transport employees and vendors between BART and the Fairgrounds.

Must be 18+
DMV check required

Racing

$16.50/hour

Supports our Grandstand guests and racing operations.

$16.50/hour

Sells racing programs to guests in the Grandstand.

$16.50/hour

Greets and seats guests. Supports private trackside events.

Must be 18+ to apply

Operations

$19.50/hr

Helps with setup and tear down for events within the Fair.

Must be able to lift 20 lbs

Must be 18+ to apply

Apply

Must be 16+ to apply

Ways To Submit Your Application

By e-mail:
 jobs@alamedacountyfair.com

By fax: (925) 426-5196

By mail: Alameda County Fair
Attn: Human Resources
4501 Pleasanton Avenue
Pleasanton, CA 94566

If offered a position with the Alameda County Fair, you will be required to provide documents that establish your identity and authorize your eligibility to work in the U.S. If you are age 17 or younger, you will be required to provide a valid work permit available through your school, unless you have already graduated from high school. You must be at least 16 years old to work at the annual Alameda County Fair. Positions in racing, cash handling or childcare require candidates to be at least 18 years old. For positions involving cash handling or childcare, you will be asked to submit and pass a background screening.

 

Only the most qualified applicants will be called to interview for open positions. Submitting an application is not a promise regarding employment. If you are employed by the Alameda County Fair, you have the right to terminate your employment at any time, and the Alameda County Fair has the similar right.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: The Alameda County Fair is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation, citizenship status or any other protected status is accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

*Subject to change