{"id":692605,"date":"2026-06-09T01:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692605\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:19:08","slug":"part-time-wnba-portland-fire-mascot-job-to-pay-100-130-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692605\/","title":{"rendered":"Part-time WNBA Portland Fire mascot job to pay $100-$130 an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Portland’s professional women’s basketball team, the Portland Fire, is hiring a mascot.<\/p>\n

After the team made its official debut in 2026 at the Moda Center, a new job listing was published for a mascot working with the team’s dance team, cheerleaders and choreographer. <\/p>\n

The posting says the new mascot will represent the Fire through performances and community events, regularly pitch “new and innovative ideas for in-game skits in collaboration with Game Experience.”<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO | Second-quarter lapse takes Fire out in the Golden State<\/a><\/p>\n

The mascot position will also be responsible for scheduling and overseeing rehearsals, workouts, practice sessions, and any other extra-curricular activities.<\/p>\n

The schedule aligns with the Fire’s game days and other select promotional or community events, and will include evenings, weekends and holidays as needed.<\/p>\n

The mascot will ideally have three years of live performance experience as a mascot, character, hype crew member or something similar, and will be able to dance, tumble, flip, dunk off a trampoline, run, jump, balance, throw T-shirts, be comfortable with heights, and have other performance skills to “enhance the character” such as sign language, juggling, improvisation, or else.<\/p>\n

The listing says the mascot candidate will possess the “ability to excite, motivate, and entertain a crowd \u2013 having a great sense of humor is a must.”<\/p>\n

The candidate will also have to attend live in-person auditions in late June.<\/p>\n

Many other characteristics are listed as desired for the Fire’s future mascot, and all can be found on the job listing’s page online<\/a>. Applicants will have to submit a recent video reel for consideration.<\/p>\n

It is currently unclear what the team’s mascot will look like, but old fans of the team will remember its original mascot, Spot; a dalmatian.<\/p>\n

The part-time contract pays $100-$130 an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Portland’s professional women’s basketball team, the Portland Fire, is hiring a mascot. After the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-692605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}