The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS), founded by Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to exploring Buddhist teachings and practices.
Situated in the serene town of Barre, Massachusetts, BCBS offers residential and online programs, retreats, and workshops that delve into the rich traditions of Buddhism, fostering learning, reflection, and spiritual growth.
BCBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds.
Current Job Openings
Kitchen Manager / Cook
The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies seeks an experienced Kitchen Manager/Cook who will plan for, prepare, and serve a variety of delicious, wholesome vegetarian meals from scratch for retreatants and staff. Our small BCBS kitchen works largely with organic ingredients and sources many of our ingredients locally. Many weekend shifts required. Reports to the Executive Director and supervises two Cooks.
Primary Duties:
- Prepare and submit food orders from a variety of suppliers
- Purchase kitchen hardware and other supplies as needed
- Create monthly meal and staffing calendar
- Supervise kitchen staff and facilitate kitchen meetings
- Develop, scale and print recipes from our database, highlight prep items
- Manage volunteers to serve our resident monk each morning and maintain schedule
- Follow recipes to prepare a variety of tasty and nutritious vegetarian meals for 25-45 people
- Maintain a clean, orderly and efficient kitchen work space
- Train and support retreatants to perform simple kitchen tasks such as chopping and pot washing
- Treat everyone at the center with kindness and respect
- Support a quiet, contemplative environment at the center during retreats
- Other tasks as required
Qualifications:
- Three or more years of professional cooking experience in a high-volume scratch kitchen
- Outstanding organizational skills with ability to multitask effectively
- Flexibility with scheduling: available to work mornings, evenings and weekends
- Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
- Strong interpersonal communication skills; proven ability to work well with a team, as well as work independently
- Position involves standing for long periods and requires physical labor including occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs
The ideal candidate will be passionate about culinary work and enthusiastic about supporting our Buddhist studies programs. This is a full-time salaried position (range: $46-55k) offering generous health and dental benefits, a retirement plan with employer contributions, meals, 38 days of paid time off annually, and access to programs at BCBS and IMS.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs@buddhistinquiry.org. No phone calls please.
BCBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds.
