Registration Manager

Vallecitos is seeking a part-time Registration Manager. Enjoy flexible hours and working from home while making a difference in the Dharma! Approx. 15-25 hours per week. Candidates must have attended at least one silent meditation retreat and an understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion work is crucial. Great customer service, communication, attention to detail and organization are a must as well. Job is located in Durango, CO.

Responsibilities include:

Manage all guest relations including responding to requests for information or assistance via phone, email and website inquiries.
Manage all guest registrations including payment, pre-retreat notices, cancellations, transfers, discounts, room assignments, travel logistics, special diet requests and more.
Manage the Vallecitos phone as emergency contact for retreat opening days.
Coordinate shuttle for retreat transportation with outsourced vendor.
Manage all scholarship requests, awarding, and tracking with keen sense of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Load all program and registration information into our retreat software.
Travel to the retreat center a few times per season to stay overnight as support for staff and to become familiar with the on-site operations
Manage exporting and importing of data into our donor management software.
Assist with printing tax acknowledgements and thank yous to donors.

Interested candidates must email a letter of interest and resume to director@vallecitos.org.

Posted 11/2/18

Ranch Manager

Live and work on site at this beautiful, remote, off grid location in northern NM. Gain experience in ranch & natural resource management, facility maintenance, retreat management, customer service and mindfulness practice. Applicants must be resourceful, responsible, caring, handy, have strong personhood and some ranch/land management experience. Job is shared with other ranch managers and runs during open season from mid-April to mid-November. We offer fair compensation plus gourmet vegetarian meals and single occupancy heated accommodation.

Responsibilities include:

Stewarding the land and natural resources
Ensuring proper maintenance and function of irrigation, water/well, vehicles, solar system
Maintaining all facilities (approx. 40 structures)
Keeping a clean and safe environment for guests
Driving guest shuttle on opening and closing day of retreats
Assisting retreat manager with timely guest response/communication
Collecting and ensuring enough firewood for operations (Experience with a chainsaw required)
Monitoring propane use and coordinating refill logistics
Managing two weekly town runs (laundry, food pick up, trash, recycle, supplies, etc.)
Monitoring trash, recycle and compost efforts
Maintaining barbed wire fencing
Managing opening and closing of the ranch and facilities seasonally
Coordinating volunteers when appropriate
Assisting with guest orientation talk and work meditation job training for guests
Anticipating and responding to guests needs and safety
Maintaining medical kit and emergency supplies
Trail maintenance and familiarity with trail system
Point person for the emergency plan protocols at the ranch
CPR/Wilderness First Aid Certified or ability to acquire (required)

Availability: We are looking for both seasonal and back up ranch managers, separately.

Seasonal
- 2 weeks on site end of April/early May for opening
- Retreat season is shared with another ranch manager in a mutually agreed upon schedule to allow for appropriate breaks (breaks are off-site)
- 2 weeks on site late October/early November for closing
Back up
- attend 1-2 weeks on site end of April/early May for opening
- back up ranch manager during season as schedule needs (as little as a few days up to a few retreats)
- attend 1-2 weeks on site late October/early November for closing

All interested parties please email a letter of interest to director@vallecitos.org. You must include:

why you believe you are an ideal candidate for the position
if you have ever been to Vallecitos before or your connection to the organization
your related experience
your availability
your contact information

updated 10/2/18

...The view of the Aspen trees outside my casita, the cool silent mornings of meditation, the warmth of the lodge, and the exquisite majesty of the land created a gentle but powerful impression... in one short visit I have come to treasure Vallecitos.

- Krys Kornmeier

...Since the retreat, my pace of personal breakthroughs has quickened and old dynamics seem to be changing in positive ways. I am better able to deal with previously tense situations and successfully resolve them. I have increased feelings of peace. Thank you!

- Jane Cronlund

...I am so much more aware of the path I want to be on and the power of the sacred in my life.

- Cristina Mormorunni

...I came to Vallecitos for a retreat years ago and fell in love with it. Now as a volunteer and yogi I try to come back every summer to soak up the stunning landscapes as well as the rich dharma. This place truly calls me home.

...Vallecitos has always been one of my spiritual homes. It is a place where I have learned so much about the refuge of wilderness. It is where I have discovered so much about my own nature, from the wildness of nature there. Not only is it exquisitely beautiful and pristine, it is also profoundly serene and a place of deep renewal. I feel so blessed to have been able to visit every year for the past twenty years. I am eternally grateful for that land.

- Mark Coleman

...I was teaching at Vallecitos one year in August, during the meteor showers. Our sensitivity heightened by hours of silent meditation, we would stand outside at night and watch trails of light cross the vast dark sky, signs from what I call the Greater Reality. Unforgettable.

- Mushim Ikeda

...I cannot express in words alone how important the retreat was for me. One of the most valuable lessons I learned is the importance of listening to my inner self. Vallecitos provided the necessary environment that makes it impossible not to go inward. When I returned home, I hit the ground running, but with a more focused direction. I attribute that to my stay at Vallecitos.

- Khalil Hassan

...I had a tremendous experience at Vallecitos, which is one of the most rewarding and positive things I’ve done within my lifetime. I have incorporated many of the things I learned into my daily life, and it has been very healthy for me. I had to experience loving kindness, sympathetic joy and generosity to understand the full power and grace of these profound feelings and actions.

- Debra Susan Abbot

...Vallecitos has truly become a home to me. Working with such great teachers and mentors is an honor and being able to absorb all the knowledge and blessings that flow through the gorgeous land has shaped my soul and nourished my mind. It really is a magical place that I am forever grateful for.

- Katie Gall

...The time and the space to reflect and cultivate inner calm were so valuable. This was a very healing experience for me. It also started me on the practice of meditating. I meditate every day now, just for 10 minutes, but it makes a huge difference in my everyday life and with work.

- Swati Prakash

...17 years ago, I received an invitation to sit for 10 days of silence at Vallecitos. I accepted the invitation with no idea of the lasting impact the retreat would have on me. Over the years, the annual pilgrimage has provided me with tools to sustain and deepen my ongoing mediation practice. Sweeping fields of wildflowers, star-dotted nights, and bubbling streams provide a unique opportunity to directly experience interconnectedness. This gentle, wild setting is a profound environment to recharge mind, spirit, and body.

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