Role: Vice President Internal Category Community Activity
Background: This is a board position and is one of the two vice-presidents.
Duties: The role includes developing relationships and understanding the issues and challenges of the 100+ member organisations of the Buddhist Council of NSW.
Who would support you? Other board members, the Office Manager, the network of community coordinators.
Time commitment: The board meetings are 4 times each year for 3 hours. In addition, the VP internal would be expected to visit member organisations.
Your Skills: Board governance, people skills, and an interest in helping the Buddhist community to become stronger.
Your Fulfilment: This role is all about achieving the Buddhist Council’s vision of helping to bring about a Dharma community with open arms
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Role: Interfaith Representative Category Community Activity
Background: The Buddhist Council of NSW is often invited to functions by other faith groups. The interfaith team represents the Buddhist community to other faith groups.
Duties: Attending functions and meetings.
Who would support you? The rest of the interfaith team, Office Manager and board directors.
Time commitment: Half a day per month.
Your Skills: Sensitivity and openness to other beliefs. Courtesy and the ability to represent Buddhism to non-Buddhists.
Your Fulfilment: This role helps to build good relationships with other faith groups who are including Buddhism in their activities
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Role: Chaplaincy Assistant Category Behind the scenes
Background: There are about 25 volunteer chaplains visiting prisons and hospitals.
Duties: record-keeping (Excel), admin (sending standard letters), organising 3-monthly peer support workshops, posting books, brochures, beads, etc to chaplains for them to give to patients and inmates.
Who would support you? We already have 3 on this team but we need more help.
Time commitment: 1 to 2 days per month, spread across the month
Your Skills: Organising, analysis, coordination, administration
Your Fulfilment: This role makes it possible for chaplains at the front line to visit and help people in hospitals and prisons.
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Role: Admin Assistant Category General office help
Background: The Admin Assistant undertakes a variety of tasks to support the administration of the Buddhist Council.
Duties: Examples include tidying the premises, watering plants, cleaning the kitchen, letter preparation, filing, packing free books for posting, packing books and other materials for volunteer teachers and chaplains, maintaining bookshelves, and maintaining the reference library.
Who would support you? The Admin assistant works closely with the Office Manager.
Time commitment: 1 to 2 days per month, spread across the month
Your Skills: Office organising, administration
Your Fulfilment: This role supports the many activities undertaken at the Buddhist Council’s office premises.
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Role: Expo Logistics Team Category General office help
Background: Buddhist Festival Month will be repeated in 2011. The purpose of the Expo is to bring the Buddhist community together to celebrate the Buddha’s life and teachings and also to make the teachings more accessible to newcomers to Buddhism. The Expo will run in the Inner-West and South West Sydney on different weekends in May.
Duties: Packing, lifting, moving, labelling and tracking, setting up.
Who would support you? Other volunteers in the Expo project team and Buddhist Council.
Time commitment: 2 to 3 days in May 2011
Your Skills: Packing, lifting, moving, labelling and tracking, setting up.
Your Fulfilment: The logistics team will be the arms and legs of the Expo project. The Expo will benefit the Buddhist community and will make Buddhist teachings more accessible and open to all.
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Role: Expo Outreach Team Category Community Activity
Background: Buddhist Festival Month will be repeated in 2011. The purpose of the Expo is to bring the Buddhist community together to celebrate the Buddha’s life and teachings and also to make the teachings more accessible to newcomers to Buddhism. The Expo will run in the Inner-West and South West Sydney on different weekends in May.
Duties: Communicating and promoting the Expo to different Buddhist community groups
Who would support you? Other volunteers in the Expo project team and Buddhist Council.
Time commitment: 2 to 3 days per month up to May 2011
Your Skills: Ability to work with groups within the Buddhist Community. A language other than English where appropriate.
Your Fulfilment: The Expo will benefit the Buddhist community and will make Buddhist teachings more accessible and open to all.
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Role: Fundraising Coordinator Category Professional Skills
Background: As a charitable organisation dependent upon donations the Buddhist Council of NSW needs a sustainable supply of funds to maintain our operations and services to members. The Fundraising Coordinator works closely with the marketing team to build a sustainable funding stream, from a variety of sources.
Duties: filling in funding and grant applications (local government, federal government, philanthropic groups)
Who would support you? Treasurer, Office Manager, board members
Time commitment: Half to 1 day per month
Your Skills: finance or legal, analytical skills, report writing
Your Fulfilment: This role has the potential to increase the funding available for worthwhile projects across the Buddhist community.
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Role: Marketing Assistant Category Community Activity
Background: The Buddhist Council has a strategic goal to improve its relationships and profile with media organisations in order to stimulate interest in Buddhist teachings and practice.
Duties: This role takes care of marketing and public relations, which includes implementing the communications strategy, liaising with the media, preparing press releases, responding to questions from the media and publicising events.
Who would support you? Marketing Coordinator, Office Manager, board members
Time commitment: Half to 1 day per month
Your Skills: skills and experience in dealing with print media, radio, local government.
Your Fulfilment: This role can help to bring people to the Buddha’s teachings, thereby making a difference to many lives.
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Role: Member Services Assistant Category Professional Skills
Background: The first part of the Buddhist Council’s mission is to help its members, who are temples and Buddhist societies. The Member Services Team responds to questions from member organisations and tries to find a starting point to the solution to the problem.
Duties: This could involve giving preliminary advice to the member organisation on compliance with rules and regulations set by government, developing a constitution, advising on visa applications, development applications, taxation, fundraising, marketing, technology, insurance or some other issue of relevance to the member organisation.
Who would support you? Other professionals in the Member Service Team.
Time commitment: Half to 1 day per month.
Your Skills: professional skills e.g. legal, finance, accounting, customer service, etc.
Your Fulfilment: This role helps member organisations in cases where small Buddhist organisations have nowhere else to go to get advice or assistance.
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Role: Webmaster Assistant Category Professional Skills
Background: We have started work on a new BCNSW website to make it easier for all our stakeholders to find the information and services they need.
Duties: Assisting the webmaster in keeping the website up to date, running analytical tools to measure website performance.
Who would support you? Webmaster and others in the Technical Team
Time commitment: 1 to 2 days per month
Your Skills: Web skills
Your Fulfilment: The website is seen by many thousands of people across the country and even across the world. It is an essential part of our communication with our stakeholders, e.g. members, volunteers, supporters, government departments, media organisations, other religious groups and the general public.
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Role: Info-Line Coordinator Category Behind the scenes
Background: The Buddhist Council of NSW gets many questions from students and the general public on questions that relate to basic Buddhism, where to find Buddhist groups and temples, or where to find people who can assist in Buddhist weddings and funerals.
Duties: The Info-Line Service Team responds to these questions which can be received in the form of a phone call, letter or email.
Who would support you? Office Manager, others in the volunteer team
Time commitment: Half to 1 day per month
Your Skills: Some knowledge of Buddhism and a knowledge of where to find answers to varied questions about Buddhism and the Buddhist community.
Your Fulfilment: This role responds to questions from across Australian society about Buddhism. In many cases this is the first step in following the Buddhist path.
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Role: Event Assistant Category General office help
Background: The Event Management Team organises events undertaken by the Buddhist Council of NSW. These events may be conducted in our Crows Nest premises or at other locations.
Duties: The Event Management Team will be responsible for logistics, venue setup, catering, equipment and ensuring that the event runs smoothly.
Who would support you? Others in the Event Team, the Office Manager.
Time commitment: Half to 1 day per month.
Your Skills: Event organising, setting up tables/chairs, arranging catering, arranging audio equipment.
Your Fulfilment: This is an enjoyable role which has variety and contact with different Buddhist groups.
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Role: Community Contact Category Community Activity
Background: Our membership has doubled in 4 years to more than 100 Buddhist temples and societies of all traditions and cultures. A network of Community Coordinators will enable the Buddhist Council to communicate more closely with members and help to put member organisations in touch with assistance where needed.
Duties: Visits with member organisations, meetings with Community Coordinators
Who would support you? Other Community Coordinators, the VP Internal and other board members, the Office Manager, Member Service Team
Time commitment: Half to 1 day per month
Your Skills: Ability to work with the committees and boards of temples and societies within the Buddhist Community. A language other than English where appropriate.
Your Fulfilment: The network of Community Coordinators will help Buddhist organisations to get the support they need and become better connected within the community
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