Work Opportunities at Dzogchen Beara
Dzogchen Beara offers opportunities for paid employment, work exchange volunteering and the chance for Rigpa students to join our team of resident Practising Sangha volunteers.
For information on paid employment, Practising Sangha and work-exchange volunteer positions please see below.
Employment Opportunities
Hospitality Coordinator, Spiritual Care Centre
The Spiritual Care Centre Hospitality Coordinators play a key role in maintaining a safe and supportive environment at the Centre, welcoming and taking care of guests, liaising with groups, monitoring the environment and managing the building. The Hospitality Coordinators work closely with the Spiritual Care Coordinator, the Dzogchen Beara Administration Team, the Events Manager and the wider management team of Dzogchen Beara.
This is an opportunity to join the work of the Spiritual Care Centre to bring kindness and compassion into action for people living with a life-altering illness, recovering from treatment, facing the end of their life or experiencing bereavement, and for their loved ones. We also welcome professional care-givers seeking rest and renewal and who wish to deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills. Receiving training in Spiritual Care will be part of the job.
Please send your expression of interest in the role, with a completed application form (download here) and Curriculum Vitae to centredirector@dzogchenbeara.org
Specialist Volunteer Roles
Specialist Volunteer Roles are for people who have specific skills needed at that time.
The roles include more hours than a work-exchange position and come with a private room.
If you would like us to contact you should a role suitable for your skills and experience arise please send an expression of interest, with a completed application form (download here) and Curriculum Vitae to centredirector@dzogchenbeara.org
Spiritual Care Centre Residential Volunteer
The Spiritual Care Centre Residential Volunteers play a key role in offering hospitality to guests and ensuring that the environment of the Spiritual Care Centre is kept to a high level of comfort and cleanliness. This is an opportunity to gain experience and receive training in Spiritual Care.
This is also an opportunity to join the work of the Spiritual Care Centre to bring kindness and compassion into action for people living with a life-altering illness, recovering from treatment, facing the end of their life or experiencing bereavement, and for their loved ones. We also welcome professional care-givers seeking rest and renewal and who wish to deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills.
Please send your expression of interest in the role, with a completed application form (download here) and Curriculum Vitae to centredirector@dzogchenbeara.org
Practising Sangha Volunteer Roles
Retreat and Household Attendant
An opportunity for a Rigpa student to join the retreat-team at the spiritual heart of Dzogchen Beara, looking after people in personal, group and long-term retreats. The role will suit someone with at least a Ngondro level of practice, who is a good communicator and team player. Your hours will allow for attending daily practice.
Please send your expression of interest in the role, with a completed application form (download here) and Curriculum Vitae to programme@dzogchenbeara.org
Practice Team Assistants (Rigpa Students)
With the opening of the temple at Dzogchen Beara on the horizon, there is a need to expand and develop our practice team. With this in mind, we are seeking to recruit passionate Practice Team Assistants who wish to develop their knowledge and understanding of Vajrayana practice.
This is an evolving role with an opportunity for development in one or more aspects of Vajrayana practice including shrine ritual, practice co-ordination, and/or umdze activities and musical instruments.
If you are a Rigpa student interested in joining the team responsible for holding the spiritual practice at the heart of our community please contact programme@dzogchenbeara.org
Benefits include accommodation in your own retreat room, full catering and a monthly allowance.
Work-Retreat Programme
We now offer the opportunity for Rigpa Ngondro/Sadhana students to come and be on retreat at Dzogchen Beara, for no charge, in exchange for five hours work a day, five days a week.
Positions on the Work-Retreat Programme are available for periods of one month up to three months.
You can apply at any time: Places are limited to two and are allocated according to the support needs of the Dzogchen Beara team.
Work-Retreat Programme participants are supported in entering into retreat with boundaries and share responsibility for maintaining the retreat area.
You will have a single room in a reserved retreat area with glorious views out over the Atlantic Ocean. Rigpa students have been doing retreat in these rooms for over 20 years, and fruition of their practice is tangible – you can feel the blessings in the peaceful and settled atmosphere.
There is silence in the retreat area until 1pm, and again from 8pm onwards.
You are encouraged to join the local sangha for daily group practices in the morning and evening.
Benefits
You will have access to an extensive library of books and teachings and instructor support as well as full catering and a laundry service, so when you are not working you can practice undistractedly.
Further information and applications to retreats@dzogchenbeara.org
Work-Exchange Volunteer Roles
The Dzogchen Beara Work-Exchange programme offers a unique opportunity for volunteers to live and work in a spiritual environment. Work-Exchange volunteers are able (and encouraged) to join daily meditation practice sessions and, when work commitments allow, attend weekend retreats for free.
For information on opportunities in this programme please contact us at workexchange@dzogchenbeara.org.