[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Employment Opportunity at the Southern Dharma Retreat Center

Dear Fellow Seekers of the Dharma,

Passing along a residential job opening at Southern Dharma, a residential retreat center near Asheville, NC. I have attended retreats there and our very own Hugh Byrne teaches retreats there. They have offered retreats since the late 1970s. They only allude to it in the note below, but there is also a dedicated ​practice community beside the retreat center. 

See below for details or pass them along to anyone who may be. 

Metta,

Paul

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Southern Dharma Retreat Center Seeks a Buildings & Grounds Manager

 

This is a full-time resident position with room and board (private, detached housing; vegetarian cuisine) for a single person. Benefits include group health insurance with monthly employer contributions to a personal health savings account, paid vacation and holiday time, and wireless internet service. Beginning salary is $1,400-1,500/month.

 

The position opening provides the right person a rare opportunity to live and work at a remote, nationally recognized, silent Buddhist retreat center in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. (Southern Dharma is located 35 miles northwest of Asheville, 12 miles south of the town of Hot Springs.)

 

The Buildings & Grounds Manager is one of a staff of four full-time employees comprising Southern Dharma's resident community. (In addition to the Buildings & Grounds Manager, the resident staff is comprised of the Director, the Retreat Manager, and the Kitchen Manager.) Short-term Resident Volunteers assist the staff in day-to-day operations.

 

Southern Dharma is a nonprofit organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. The center hosts approximately 25 teacher-led retreats each year with approximately 25 guests participating in each retreat.

 

The Buildings & Grounds Manager is responsible for maintaining and developing the center's infrastructure in consultation with the Director. Applicants for the position must be: pragmatic; physically healthy and strong; adept at working with a variety of hand and power tools; comfortable supervising independent contractors, vendors, and volunteers; drug and alcohol free; friendly with retreat guests; experienced with a personal meditation practice; conscientious and dedicated; effective communicators; enthusiastic, personable, and sincere; good team players.

 

A comprehensive job description, annual work schedule, and schedule of periodic tasks associated with the position are available upon request.

 

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The starting date will be as soon as possible by mutual arrangement.

 

Interested persons are invited to forward questions, letters of interest, resumes, and references to: Director, SCRC, southerndharma@earthlink.net. No phone calls, please.

 

Southern Dharma Retreat Center

1661 West Road

Hot Springs, NC 28743

www.southerndharma.org

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