Bristol Buddhist Centre is seeking an Office Administrator!

We’re recruiting for a 3rd person to work alongside Amaladevi and Satyalila in the Bristol Buddhist Centre office in August – the Job Ad/Description etc are attached below. The closing date is Friday 3 July at 9.00 am and interviews will be on the morning of Friday 10 July.

The Bristol Buddhist Centre is at the heart of a large, expanding sangha hosting a busy and varied programme of courses for newcomers, through to experienced Dharma practitioners. The team at the Bristol Buddhist Centre is looking for a competent Office Administrator to support the two existing Centre Managers in the day to day administration of the Centre. The team is value-driven, with Buddhist principles underpinning its team-based right livelihood work.

The job is an interesting and engaging role, involving the day to day, ‘holding of the fort’, meeting and greeting, taking calls and enquiries, running the booking system for courses and classes, updating the financial system and assisting in keeping the website updated. This post is part time (21 or 24.5 hours (negotiable) spread over 4 days) and based in Bristol. Payment will be on the basis £7.73 ph plus retreat allowance.

There will be liaison with the existing team, volunteers, the Buddhist Centre ‘exec’ and the wider sangha. The ideal candidate, as well as being able to participate fully in the ethos of the Bristol Buddhist Centre (as a going for refuge mitra or order member within the FWBO/WBO*) would have the following skills, preferably proven by their prior experience:-

- Proven office administration experience, including a good phone manner
- Effective organisational and multi-tasking skills
- Sound communication, interpersonal and liaising skills
- The ability to work alone and with others
- A solution-focused approach

Please contact Amaladevi and Satyalila on (0117) 924 9991 or by email at info@bristol-buddhist-centre.org for more details. To apply for this post, please email a covering letter, detailing how your skills, experience and character are appropriate for this post. If you wish, you may include a CV, but please note that this should not take the place of a letter of application. The closing dates for application is Friday 3 July at 9.00 am. Interviews are planned to take place during the morning of Friday 10 July and the proposed start date is w/c 10 August 09.


A bit about the Bristol Buddhist Centre…
The Centre offers a busy and varied programme of meditation, Buddhism and yoga classes and courses. The Centre is part of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order and many of the classes are taught by members of the Order. There are currently approximately forty members of the Western Buddhist Order living in and around Bristol, 70-80 mitras (friends) of the Centre and a large wider sangha of local people who drop into events. There has been a Buddhist Centre owned and run by FWBO Bristol since 1981. The Centre has been at its current location for the past 12 years.

For further information and to get a sense of what’s going on, please visit the Centre website: www.bristol-buddhist-centre.org

New fundraising opportunity at Karuna

The Karuna Trust, an FWBO charity working with marginalised communities in South Asia, has been running door to door fundraising appeals for nearly 30 years. Hundreds of people from the FWBO sangha have recruited thousands of UK householders who give £1.1million to Karuna each year.

Jo Goldsmid from Karuna says:

“According to research, a lot of our current supporters would be happy to give more; we just need to ask them. So that’s what we are going to do! We will be running a telephone fundraising campaign this summer from our office in London. This means we will be phoning hundreds of our loyal supporters and asking them to give a bit more. We will run the appeal in the same spirit as our door-to-door appeals: as an opportunity to deepen awareness of ourselves and our communication with others, with a strong sense of team. So each day before beginning phoning we will meet at the Karuna office, share our experience and then eat an early dinner together. Each evening will come to a close with a rejoicing in merits.

Telephone fundraising has a lot in common with door-to-door fundraising; it develops your communication skills and you can end up having some very meaningful conversations with people. It’s possible to raise even more money than you would knocking on people’s doors, so this means we will be able to reach out to even more vulnerable children, women and men across South Asia.

So if you live in London, are available on weekday evenings between 1st June and 11th July and would like to contribute, we’d love to hear from you! Full training will be given and financial support can be negotiated.”

Contact Jo at Karuna:
jo@karuna.org +44 (0)207 697 3006

The photographs show two girls, Maya and Mandodhri, going to work in the brick kiln at dawn…and later on their way to their Karuna-funded school. Education - more than anything else - helps people to take control of their lives and break out of the poverty cycle.

WINDHORSE:EVOLUTION seeks CHAIN DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

The post is full-time and based in Cambridge, UK. Payment will be on the basis of "support" or salary (by negotiation)

Windhorse:evolution is looking for a competent Project Manager to organise and oversee the opening of new Evolution shops and carry out projects related to the shops. The role involves working in a Buddhist team based in Cambridge. The team are value-driven and have a strong sense of Buddhist ethos.

The job is an interesting and engaging role involving the acquiring of suitable shop properties and the setting up of the shop to Evolution standards.

There is a lot of liaison with property agents, lawyers and shop-fitting teams. The ideal candidate, as well as being able to participate in the ethos of windhorse:evolution, would have the following skills :-

• Proven Project Management experience
• Good organisation and facilitation skills
• Good communication and liaising skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Good problem solving abilities
• Able to work to deadlines and within financial budgets

Please contact Dharmasiddhi on +44 (0)1223 868583 or by email at dharmasiddhi@windhorse.biz for more details.

Vacancy at Manchester Buddhist Centre

The Manchester Buddhist Centre is seeking an I.T and Marketing Manager.

They would be responsible for providing an effective and efficient IT service to the Centre and to ensure the Buddhist centre’s benefits are effectively marketed.

35hrs a week
Closing date 9th May

To register your interest, please contact
vajramudita@manchesterbuddhistcentre.org.uk

Buddhafield Cafe seeks summer volunteers

The Buddhafield cafe seeks summer volunteers - click for high- resolution copy...

windhorse:evolution seeks Customer Service Advisor

windhorse:evolution
is a Buddhist inspired wholesale and retail giftware business, which aims to make money to give away to Buddhist and social welfare projects, and to work and trade ethically.

Check their website www.windhorse.biz

They are seeking a Customer Service Advisor

We are looking for a fourth person to join our friendly and dynamic team
Provide excellent customer service by:

• Maintaining positive relationships with customers
• Ensuring order process completed accurately to schedule.
• Resolving queries through investigation with other teams

Skills and experience
• Customer service experience
• Strong communication skills
• Computer literate with competency in Excel, Word, Internet and knowledge of
computer databases - essential

Support or wages
Closing date: 01-05-09
This post carries a Genuine Occupational Requirement to have an understanding of and sympathy for Buddhism as practised in the FWBO, under the terms of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 as it is an all-Buddhist team at present.

If interested please contact -
Jenny Henderson 01223 868 544,
jennyh@windhorse.biz

Friends Organic, London seeks Shop Team Worker

Friends Organic, the London Buddhist Centre's Health Food shop, seeks a man or woman, preferably Buddhist, to be part of their team.

Priyadaka, their Manager, says - "If you love wholefoods, have a flair for retail and enjoy teamwork we have a place for you; experience will be useful but not necessary as we want someone with the right attitude, an ability to learn and to take initiative.

“I will be asking you to take plenty of responsibility as we are changing and growing rapidly; you will find it lots of fun as we are in exciting times!”

"Please send in your cv and covering letter to priyadaka@googlemail.com, or to Friends Organic, 83 Roman Road, London E2 OQN.

You can also call 0208 980 1843".