Current Job Openings with Quaker
and Other Organizations
This page contains job listings from Friends organizations and other employers who may be of interest to Friends
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Notices of employment opportunities
American Friends Service Committee, (AFSC): a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. See www.afsc.org. For most current listings, see jobs-afsc.icims.com/afsc_jobs/jobs/candidate/jobs.jsp.
- Program Director, Israel/Palestine US-PA-Philadelphia Friday, February 12, 2010
- General Secretary US-PA-Philadelphia Friday, March 19, 2010
(2/2/2010)
**ARC Ecumenical Retreat Community in central Minnesota's pine woods provides space and silence for discernment in times of transition. See www.arcretreat.org. Regular openings for residents to welcome retreatants and share a simple, sustainable, spiritual lifestyle. Room and board provided for volunteers up to three months; stipend, health insurance available for longer term resdents. Contact
Jan Wiersma, Director
1680 - 373rd Ave. NE
Stanchfield, MN 55080
Telephone: 763-689-3540 | Fax: 763-689-1572 (call before sending)
arcretreat@hotmail.com.(12/16/09)
BALTIMORE MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS STONY RUN is seeking a full time Meeting Coordinator. The qualified individual should be a Quaker comfortable with unprogrammed worship and should have a minimum of two years of related work experience. Serving a large metropolitan meeting, this staff person will have duties specified in a complex job description including supervision of the office manager and extensive work in support of Meeting committees. An ability to work with a diverse membership ranging from families with young children to the elderly is essential. Competitive salary and benefits. For more information, contact searchcomm@stonyrunfriends.org. Deadline for application is March 15, 2010. (2-1-10)
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (bym-rsf.org/quakers/index2009spring.shtml) seeks a full time administrative assistant. See the position announcement bym-rsf.org/quakers/staff/AAannounce.pdf and position description at www.bym-rsf.org/quakers/staff/AAdescription.pdf. (1/8/10).
The Canadian Friends Service Committee acts on the peace and social justice concerns of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Canada. CFSC is looking for Young Friend Internship Programme provides Young Friends and attenders (ages 20-29) with a four month program (1 May - 31 August) within which to engage in the work of CFSC. Location: Toronto or Ottawa (depends on qualifications of intern and on program needs). The internship generally includes participation in the annual sessions of Canadian Yearly Meeting (August). Visit www.cfsc.quaker.ca (scroll to the bottom of the page) for a link to the internship application package and more information on our programs. (1/8/2010)
**Chandler Hall-- Situated in suburban County in Newtown, Pennsylvania, Chandler Hall provides a wide range of health and wellness services for the aging, including assisted living, nursing care, home health, hospice, adult day programs, geriatric assessment, and case management. It includes specialized Alzheimer's and ALS care, an aquatics program and features intergenerational programs in conjunction with an on-site child development program.
Current openings (as of 2/2/10):
- Registered Nurse
- Certified Nursing Assistant
For details regarding employment at Chandler Hall: Call 215-860-4000 Ext. 1351 e-mail employment@chandlerhall.org Online at www.chandlerhall.com Job listings at www.chandlerhall.com/job_bank.php
Christian Peacemaker Teams is an initiative among Mennonite and Church of the Brethren congregations and Friends United Meeting that supports violence reduction efforts around the world. See www.cpt.org. Various opportunities for involvement exist. Two-week delegations focused on education in non-violence and the situation where CPT is working take place throughout the year. Opportunities to become part-time or full-time CPT corps members range from two-three month commitments/year for three years, to a full-time commitment for three years. Contact CPT directly for more information. More at www.cpt.org/participate.
**Church World Service is the relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations in the United States. Working in partnership with indigenous organizations in more than 80 countries, CWS works worldwide to meet human needs and foster self-reliance for all whose way is hard. See www.churchworldservice.org/aboutcws.htm.
The Amity Program prepares teachers of English for service in China: www.churchworldservice.org/amity. (2/2/2010)
- Parolee Orientation Program Coordinator (part-time)
- Paralegal for the Immigration Program
- Deputy Director - Programs IRP
- Religious Services Associate Chaplain/Specialist, Los Fresnos, TX
- Case Worker(s), Local Hire Expatriate Pre-CIS Field Team Position, Nairobi, Kenya
- Internship Opportunities
**Council on International Educational Exchange: The Council on International Educational Exchange is the leading U.S. non-governmental international education organization. CIEE creates and administers programs that allow high school and university students and educators to study and teach abroad.
Current employment opportunities listed at http://www.ciee.org/about/careers.aspx (as of 2/2/10):
Cuba Friends -- Growing country meeting seeks part time minister. Parsonage or housing allowance provided. Contact Dick Gray:
Phone: (800)
347-0859
Email: grayagr@erinet.com
Earlham School of Religion (http://esr.earlham.edu/) "... is a Christian graduate theological school in the Quaker tradition. ESR prepares women and men for leadership that empowers and for ministry that serves." Jobs are listed here: http://twic.esr.earlham.edu/taxonomy/term/14 (2/2/10).
Friends Center http://www.friendscentercorp.org/index.html seeks an Executive Director to lead the operations and business affairs of its multi-building complex in central Philadelphia. Management and maintenance of the newly-renovated center with an historic Meeting House and office buildings housing multiple organizations. Position reports to the Board of Directors; manages all building operations, rentals, services and security; oversees small but dedicated staff and vendor/contractor relationships; provides budget oversight and organizational fiscal stability. (2/3/09)
Friends National Committee on Legislation (FCNL) seeks an Executive Secretary who
- Will give inspired and inspiring leadership to Washington’s biggest peace lobby
- Is a Quaker who can excite coalitions, constituents and donors
- Has enthusiasm to change national policies and reclaim the people’s democracy
- Will be a Spirit-led leader with management competence
Qualities desired include spiritual depth, commitment to Friends’ decision-making, and ability to engage in constructive dialogue. The Executive Secretary participates in lobbying, motivates, and leads the staff, vigorously raises funds, collaborates with colleagues, and coalitions, interprets FCNL effectively in various media, and works with the governors.
The search opens March 1,2010 and closes May 31, 2010. For more info go to www.fcnl.org/jobs
Candidates should send a resume and a cover letter to: GretchenHall.Search@gmail.com
Friends Fiduciary Corporation has long been the trusted fiduciary for assets of Quaker organizations. It is in the process of implementing a new strategic vision that calls for significant growth and geographic expansion. As a central thrust of that new vision, the newly created position of Chief Investment Officer will work to ensure that FFC’s investing standards, investing performance, and constituent service are second to none. The Chief Investment Officer, will report to the Executive Director and/or to the Investment Committee of the Board of Directors and work closely with other staff members, especially the Finance Office, providing the appropriate due diligence and oversight of Friends Fiduciary’s investment pools. This position requires the financial, analytical, and other qualitative skills to assume primary responsibility for day-to-day oversight of external investment managers. Responsibilities include: ensuring appropriate due diligence with respect to the FFC’s relationship with investment management firms and consultants, implementing a regular schedule of phone and personal interactions, ensuring investment managers are following the prescribed investment strategy, including our socially responsible investment policy, and adhering to contract terms, analyzing performance vs. establishing benchmarks, distilling and communicating information received from managers, monitoring personnel changes with firms, representing FFC to new or potential investment firms, and researching new types of investments.
The Chief Investment Officer will be responsible for maintaining our socially responsible investment policy, have oversight of proxy voting policies and practices and shareholder activities in conjunction with the Executive Director and/or the FCC Investment Committee. This would include final review of all domestic equity purchases for compatibility with FFC’s SRI policy.
The Chief Investment Officer will have primary responsibility for communication of our investment policies and strategies to current and potential constituents, both written and oral; will be a key participant in our marketing efforts and will support the work of the FFC Investment Committee of the Board of Directors.
To carry out our new strategic vision, we need people who are not only highly skilled, but highly flexible team players who enthusiastically take on multiple roles and work well with a diverse community. The selected candidate will be able to adapt to new work situations, people, ideas, procedures, and organizational structure, in order to accommodate an evolving and collaborative work environment.
Applications will be accepted via email. Interested candidates should send the following by January 31, 2010 to Constance Brookes, Executive Director, connie@friendsfiduciary.org (2/2/09)
Friends General Conference (www.fgcquaker.org) is a Quaker organization, headquartered in Philadelphia, in the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends which primarily serves affiliated yearly and monthly meetings. For employment opportunities within FGC see: http://www.fgcquaker.org/about-us/employment-internships. [1/8/10]
**Friends Journal (www.friendsjournal.org) is an independent magazine serving the Religious Society of Friends. It's offices are located in Philadelphia. See: http://www.friendsjournal.org/internships-employment.
- Interns: Applications for internships are accepted on an ongoing basis. See www.friendsjournal.org/internships. (1/8/10)
Friends School Haverford (http://www.friendshaverford.org/) seeks head of school to begin July 1, 2010. Inquires to Clay V. Stites, PO Box 104, Dartmouth MA 02714; (508_636-4984) or clay.stites@comcast.net . [8/12/09]
Indiana Yearly Meeting (http://www.iym.org/) seeks pastors. Contact Dog Shoemaker, Superintendent, IYM, 4715 N. Wheeling AVer, Muncie IN 47304; doug@iym.org; or call (800)292-5238. [8/11/09]
**Innisfree Village is a lifesharing community with adults with mental disabilities in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sixty members live together in family-style homes on 550 acres, and work together in our weavery, kitchen, bakery, gardens and woodshop. See www.innisfreevillage.org. Contact Nancy at info@innisfreevillage.org or 434-823-5400. (9/24/08)
Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends seeks pastors for several monthly meetings. Full and part time positions available. Resumes to Iowa Yearly Meeting, PO Box 657, Oskaloosa, IA, 52577, bryanrj@mahaska.org; 6141-673-9717.
See: www.iaym.org/opportunities. Pastors are sought for the following meetings (as of 1/8/10):
- Salem Friends (Salem, Iowa)
- Sturgeon Bay Friends (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin)
The Jubilee Association of Maryland (http://www.jubileemd.org) is a Mennonite-affiliated human services organization in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. It provides opportunities and support for people with developmental disabilities to live in and enrich their community while fulfilling their personal, family, and spiritual needs. See https://www.smartrecruiters.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/jobmarket.woa/wa/jobMarketHomePage?fp1=49950487 for jobs listed. [2/2/10]
MMA (Mennonite Mutual Aid) is a church-affiliated organization based in Goshen, Indiana, that nurtures the practice of holistic, biblical stewardship. They help individuals and groups act on their faith values in everyday decisions about resources. MMA employs a variety of professionals including actuaries, attorneys, claims examiners, computer programmers, graphic designers, writers, insurance professionals, investment managers, nurses, and underwriters. Positions are located in the organization's headquarters in Goshen, Ind., and in field offices across the country. To access their job bank search page: www.mma-online.org/g.aspx?id=467. (1-8-10)
Mennonite Central Committee U.S. (www.mcc.org/) in Akron, PA, is a Christian relief and development organization with a strong commitment to peacemaking. All MCC workers must have a personal Christian Faith, be active members of a Christian church, and be committed to the teaching of nonviolent biblical peacemaking. Candidates of a gender or ethnic group typically underrepresented in this type of MCC assignment are encouraged to apply. Openings are listed at: www.mcc.org/serve/. For a list of jobs, go here http://mcc.org/serve/positions (1/8/10)
North Carolina - Archdale Senior Pastor -- The Cedar Square Friends Meeting is seeking a full time pastoral position in central North Carolina just outside Greensboro. Salary is $30-50k, DOE, plus benefits. Three bedroom brick parsonage across from the meeting house included. Average 250 attend weekly worship. Very active ministries of all ages. Send resume to:
Phil Hyde, M&C Clerk
6503 Hyde Away Lane
Archdale, NC 27263
Pacific Yearly Meeting seeks fulltime Youth Program Coordinator to enhance the spiritual development and nurture of our pre-teens through young adults. Coordinator provides program support and coordination of youth activities; assists Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in engaging and educating their young people; develops an infrastructure that brings Friends together as a faith community; and provides a role model experienced in Friends’ worship and practices. Frequent travel required. Expenses reimbursed. $18 an hour plus overtime, starting with two-weeks’ vacation, holidays, sick leave and benefits. Quaker meeting membership required. By January 12th email letters of interest and résumés to Lanny Jay at landbird@comcast.net
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (www.pym.org) is comprised of over one hundred local Friends meeting communities in Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, all of Delaware and Eastern Maryland. Volunteer and paid positions are posted at www.pym.org/pm/jobs.php. The following positions are listed (as of 2/2/10):
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Associate Secretary for Business and Finance
Serving as the chief financial officer of PYM, this position is responsible for financial planning and analysis and for overseeing all fiscal operations. Heavy involvement in planning, support, and oversight of all financial systems, in training of volunteers, staff, and meeting members in budget creation, interpretation, and analysis; and in tracking and monitoring of investments. Also oversees all PYM-owned facilities and business operation, generally. -
Human Resources Coordinator
The Human Resources Coordinator oversees and administers the personnel-related business of PYM managing staff recruitment, training, performance evaluation, employee relations, policy development, compensation, and benefits. The HR Coordinator also serves as staff support for the Personnel Services Group. -
Childcare Workers
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is committed to making it convenient for adult members and attenders with small children to participate fully in committees, Interim Meeting, March Sessions, and Summer Sessions activities. We need some dedicated and enthusiastic Childcare Workers so this can happen. - Children's Religious Life Coordinator
The CRLC stimulates and supports the spiritual vitality of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting by supporting meetings in the work of children’s religious education and nurturing the spiritual lives of children. Serves as a resource person for the PYM community. Develops resources and training for religious educators who work with children through Grade 5. Assists Meetings with the overall planning, implementation, and evaluation of First Day School programs and other opportunities for children to participate in the life of the Meeting. Works collaboratively as part of the PYM staff team to nurture the faith, practice and witness of Quakerism in our young people and the adults who work with them.
We seek an active member or attender of the Religious Society of Friends who is able to work with children and adults, and to facilitate groups to develop their interest, gifts, and skills. Must have strong communication skills and be able to travel within the limits of PYM spending many Sundays traveling to monthly meetings.
Please visit our web site (www.pym.org) to view the full job description and the application process or contact
Ginny Connolly, Human Resources Coordinator,
humanresources@pym.org or 215-241-7225.
Scattergood Friends School in West Branch, Iowa, is a college-prep boarding and day school for grades 9-12 that emphasizes academics, community life, based on core Quaker values of simplicity, harmony, integrity, responsibility and equality. The campus includes a working farm. See www.scattergood.org.
- Head of School to begin July 1, 2010. Applications are wanted by November 5, 2009. See www.scattergood.org/head_search.
**Sidwell Friends School (www.sidwell.edu) is a PK-12, co-educational Quaker day school with campuses in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD. Founded in 1883, the School is a non-profit, tax-exempt institution governed by an independent Board of Trustees. Sidwell Friends School does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, or sexual orientation in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid and loan programs, physical education program, or other School-sponsored programs and activities, or in the hiring and terms of employment of faculty and staff. More information is available about the following positions (as of 1/6/10) at: http://www.sidwell.edu/employment/index.asp
Status: Full-time
Starting Date: August, 2010
Posted February 1
Status: Full-time
Starting Date: July 1, 2010
Posted January 8
Status: Seasonal
Start Date: August, 2010
Posted January 22
Status: Full-time
Starting Date: August, 2010
Posted January 21
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), a liberal religious organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. See http://www.uua.org/ Currently listed at www.uua.org/aboutus/careeropportunities/index.shtml (as of 2/2/10):
William Penn House, Washington, DC --The William Penn House (WPH) is a Quaker seminar and hospitality center five blocks from the halls of Congress in Washington, DC. Its mission is to provide a setting for Friends and others concerned with the development of spiritual values and a bridge between those values and pressing domestic and international concerns. WPH is best known for its seminar programs for groups from schools, colleges and universities, monthly meetings, and other organizations. See: www.williampennhouse.org. William Penn House welcomes Friends from each of the spiritual traditions of Friends and is seeking interns with Quaker backgrounds. Over the recent past interns have come from Conservative Friends, FUM, FGC and Evangelical Friends. Details posted at http://www.williampennhouse.org/?q=internships. (2/2/10)
Witness for Peace (WFP) is a politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFP’s mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. Opportunities listed at http://witnessforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=91 updated: (2/2/10).
Other listings for jobs with Friends organizations:
Job Openings in Quaker colleges, maintained by FAHE (Friends Association for Higher Education)
Job Posting Service for job openings in Quaker schools, maintained by the Friends Council on Education, for their member schools.
Employment with retirement facilities and nursing homes that are member organizations of Friends Services for the Aging
Quaker related jobs are also posted at Friends General Conference Youth page.
Other employment listings with nonprofit organizations:
Worldwide listings from Action Without Borders: www.idealist.org/
In the greater Philadelphia area, see listings through the La Salle University Nonprofit Center at: www.nonprofitjobscoop.org/content.php?content=searchJobs&id=3
Quaker-Related Institutions of Higher Education, and Quaker Study Centers:
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