Buddhist Chief Monk

Location: MOUNT CROSBY, QLD

Salary: Not Specified

Job Type: Permanent position | Full time position

This is an ongoing position. The monastery is seeking a suitably qualified candidate who is an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident to be considered for this role. Duties include:

• Prepare and conduct daily, weekly, and monthly religious activities, programs, and sermons.
• Conduct meditation training programs.
• Attend to the spiritual needs of congregants by providing blessings, counselling, spiritual guidance, and religious education.
• Guide, teach, and mentor trainee and assistant monks.
• Engage with devotees with a strong focus on service, compassion, and spiritual support.
• Provide guidance and support to young people in following the Buddhist way of life.
• Advise and guide the directors of the monastery in carrying out their responsibilities and activities.
• Advise and guide welfare and community service activities organised by the monastery within South Australia.
• Perform administrative duties of the monastery, including infrastructure development and ongoing maintenance activities.
• Coordinate and work collaboratively with branch monasteries and other Buddhist temples in Australia and overseas.

Qualifications and experience:

• Follows and teaches the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
• Has completed a minimum of five years and nine months of structured religious and administrative training as part of the process of becoming a Buddhist monk.
• Maintains a life of exemplary conduct in accordance with the high standards of monastic discipline, including adherence to the 227 monastic precepts and the vow of poverty.
• Is fully ordained within the Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastic

Order.

• Has at least 10 years of experience as an ordained Buddhist monk.
• Has experience serving as a Chief Monk at Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery branches in Australia, Sri Lanka, or other countries.
• Is fluent in Sinhala.
• Verbal English language skills are desirable.