Non-profit Board Members / Director Positions
Key Details
- Type: Non-profit Board of Directors/ Unpaid
- Organization: Green Communities Canada
- Location: Remote (Board meetings held via Teams), anywhere in Canada
- Application Deadline: March 10, 2025
- Salary: Volunteer
At Green Communities Canada, we connect community-based climate organizations through a national network to build capacity for action and elevate our collective impact. We also work to ensure that our network partners can build and maintain the capacity required for transformative change by providing essential funding. To do this, we collaborate with our network partners to secure shared grant funds and also work with governments and charitable foundations to deliver strategic funding programs that support local communities. Finally, building upon our organizational expertise, we offer our network partners the training services, delivery scaffolding, peer learning opportunities, and evaluation support they need to accelerate change.
GCC seeks to ensure the Board of Directors has a strong and diverse mix of expertise, experience, skills, and backgrounds. Through Board recruitment and selection, GCC will advance and maintain diversity based on professional experience, geography, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, Indigenous representation, and ability. This commitment is reinforced in GCC’s EDI Strategy, which includes specific actions and priorities to support Board recruitment.
Key Responsibilities
- Setting and reviewing policies governing the organization, its staff, and its members
- Establishing long-term strategic planning and evaluation processes
- Approving annual budgets, internal reserves, and financial compliance processes
- Monitoring financial performance and addressing emerging risks and opportunities
- Approving GCC network membership applications
- Oversight and annual review of the Executive Director
- Exercising due diligence with respect to the responsibilities of the organization
A high-level description of duties, as well as recruitment information and time commitments can be found here.
To apply, please fill out this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GCCBoard2025
Have questions? Contact Kiran Pal-Pross, Administration Manager, kpalpross@greencommunitiescanada.org
We look forward to hearing from you!
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