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CLOSED: The 2016 Gathering in Camrose, Alberta needs your help!

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Dear Friends, the Youth Program needs your help! The following positions are available.

Youth Program:

We are looking for people to help lead our Youth Program this summer at CYM. The Youth Program is an incredibly fun place to be at CYM – there is enthusiasm, laughter and joy; but we need great leaders to bring a wonderful program together. If you can serve CYM by being a leader in the Program we want to hear from you! Your responsibilities would include working with the Youth Program Coordinator to put together a program for the summer and running the program at CYM (there will be volunteers to help). The program needs to include worship time, Quaker study time and outings. There are many resources available to help you. We cannot run a program for children and youth without leaders.

If you feel able to offer this service, please contact Beth Ward . Your travel, meals and lodging can be paid for by CYM as these are Required Services positions.

FOOD COOP Coordinator:

To coordinate the Food Coop at Canadian Yearly Meeting 2016 at Camrose, Alberta

The Coordinator plans shopping lists and menu choices in consultation with the Continuing Committee of Food Coop and the Local Arrangements Committee, facilitates food preparation, manages food storage and ensures safe food-handling practices.

The Coordinator has volunteers available for site set-up and maintenance, financial control, food shopping, preparation and clean up. Typically Food Coop participants sign themselves up for volunteer shifts throughout the week that CYM is in session.

From mid-day Thursday, Aug 4 to next Saturday, Aug 13 (a two-day start-up shopping/planning period precedes the first meal which is Saturday supper, Aug 6). Attends for four hours at each of two meals a day (breakfast is completely in the hands of Coop participants).

We are seeking someone who is familiar with volunteer organizations and sensitive to the Quaker values of simplicity and community building. The person may or may not be a member of the Religious Society of Friends. An honorarium of $800 (eight hundred dollars) is available.

For further information and for application form:
David Summerhays,
Food Coop Committee

Position Available – Friends General Conference

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The Associate Secretary for Development has full responsibility for FGC’s Development Program and serves a key leadership role with FGC’s partners and donors, organizational volunteer leadership, and the Staff Administrative Team.

FGC has a $2.5 M annual budget and raises approximately $1 M a year.

The ideal Associate Secretary candidate will:

– Have a minimum of five years professional development leadership experience, including comprehensive campaigns and the solicitation of major gifts.
– Be an active member of the Religious Society of Friends.
– Be committed to a journey of spiritual deepening, with a gift for encouraging others in their journey after the manner of Friends.
– Be able to do extensive travel, work weekends, and accept homestay hospitality.

This is a key leadership position within FGC and the Religious Society of Friends. A full job description is available here.

Send cover letter, resume, and three references to Barry Crossno, General Secretary, Friends General Conference, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107,  , by October 31, 2014.

Full-time. Full benefits. Based in the FGC Philadelphia office. Expected start date March 1, 2015. FGC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.