Core competencies for clergy in North America

• ​Articulating and carrying out the practice vision
• Helping the sangha toward shared understanding of its identity as a practice community
• Leading services and liturgy
• Preparing and delivering dharma talks
• Teaching both adults and children
• Visiting with the sick, bereaved, and dying
• Doing outside speaking engagements
• Managing temple administration
• Conflict resolution and building harmony in the sangha
• Creating pathways for new practitioners
• Counseling people practicing in the midst of personal difficulties
• Representing the sangha in interfaith activities
• Engaging in continuing professional and spiritual development
• Conducting ceremonies: jukai, homeleaving, weddings, memorials, funerals
• Taking leadership in fundraising and development
• Participating in Sotoshu activities
• Fostering fellowship within the sangha
• Leading in sangha planning and goal setting, and participating in implementation
• Recruiting and training sangha leaders
• Promoting enthusiasm for sangha activities

To read and consider:

Regarding Elephants in the Room: What Buddhists could learn from Christians about preventing teacher misconduct
by Wakoh Shannon Hickey