Buddhist Chaplain - Tufts University

Acslhe; Medford (MA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A university institution is seeking a Buddhist Chaplain to provide spiritual leadership, counseling, and educational programming to the diverse Buddhist community at Tufts. The role involves collaborating with student organizations, delivering mindfulness teachings, and maintaining a welcoming environment. Ideal candidates will be skilled in Buddhist practices and committed to integrity and confidentiality, fostering spiritual friendships within the community.

Qualifications

• Skilled in cultural heritage contexts of Buddhist practice.
• Ability to create and maintain an inclusive environment.
• Commitment to confidentiality and personal integrity.

Responsibilities

• Work with Tufts’ Buddhist student organization and strengthen community ties.
• Design and deliver spiritual educational programming.
• Provide spiritual counseling and administrative support.

Job description

The Buddhist Chaplain works with the University Chaplaincy Team in providing overall religious and philosophical leadership for the University community by providing spiritual leadership, spiritual care, mindfulness and Buddhist meditation teaching to the culturally diverse Tufts Buddhist community. The Buddhist Chaplain is responsible for:

• Working with Tufts’ Buddhist student organization, the Tufts Buddhist Mindfulness Sangha (TBMS), to strengthen its insight into Buddhist practice and teaching, to strengthen the quality of kalyana-mitta (spiritual friendship) within the community and to strengthen its relationships with the wider campus community.
• Designing, developing and delivering spiritual educational programming for TBMS and the wider campus.
• Providing spiritual counseling to students and staff, including referrals to other offices and/or spiritual communities as needed.
• Providing overall support for spiritual and ethical life and attending to program administration and collaborative responsibilities with the University Chaplaincy team.

The Buddhist Chaplain must be skilled in lifting up, and working within, cultural heritage contexts of Buddhist practice as well as advocating for, and teaching to, a sangha that is pluralistic in its Buddhist belief and expression. The Buddhist Chaplain should be deeply motivated by serving TBMS’s community, creating and maintaining an inclusive, welcoming environment, and supporting our mission through intentional, collaborative, collegial work, and have a high degree of personal integrity and discretion, with commitment to maintaining confidentiality.