Meet Professional Adviser Jared Bertram

Serving as professional adviser for Wood Badge Course S9-91-14 is senior district executive of the Muskogee District, Jared Bertram. As the course's professional adviser, Jared provides administrative and council support for the course and its director and staff.

Jared has nearly 22 years of Scouting experience — with more than half of that time as a Scout who earned the rank of Eagle Scout and attended the 1997 National Jamboree. His adult Scouting experience includes service as both a volunteer and professional Scouter. As a volunteer, he has served as an assistant scoutmaster of Troop 400 in the Central Georgia Council (Macon, Ga.). He was also a summer camp staff employee from 2000-09 at Camp Benjamin Hawkins (Central Georgia Council) in Macon, Ga., and Camp Woodruff (Atlanta Area Council) in Blairsville, Ga. A professional Scouter since 2009, Jared previously served as district executive of Chattahoochee Council’s George H. Lanier District before his current service to Muskogee District. A Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, he is also a recipient of the OA’s Founders’ Award.

A Beaver Patrol member from Chattahoochee Council Wood Badge Course SR-1078, Jared was also elected by his patrol as its permanent patrol leader. While S9-91-14 is his first opportunity to staff a Wood Badge course, he has previously staffed summer camp at Camp Frank G. Lumpkin as aquatics director the summers of 2004-07, and as program director the summers of 2009 and 2010.