Advisor Board Member (Remote, Volunteer)

ADVISOR BOARD MEMBER — VOLUNTEER

Organization: Right to Live Canada

Location: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)

Time Commitment: A required biweekly two-hour Advisor Board meeting. Attendance is non-negotiable. Beyond that meeting, advisors independently review materials, conduct research, and provide guidance as needed. Duration negotiable, four month minimum.

This is a remote volunteer opportunity with Right to Live Canada, a virtual-office based Canadian non-profit start-up.

------ THE MISSION

Right to Live Canada exists to make continued life a practical, supported, executable option when a preferable living future exists but the systems required to reach it do not.

We were founded in response to systemic poverty-driven euthanasia among Canadians with disabilities: cases in which people pursue MAiD because housing, income, care, treatment, or other essentials required to continue living are unavailable. In those cases, death can become the executable option while a preferable living future remains structurally out of reach.

That distinction defines Right to Live. Right to Live is the only organization in Canada addressing euthanasia with a practical solution model for all Canadians - not merely opposing MAiD, documenting harms, or raising awareness, but building the service, financing, technological, and institutional infrastructure that can make continued life executable. The scale of the issue is already national: 16,499 Canadians received MAiD in 2024, equal to 5.1% of all deaths in Canada, and the number of MAiD provisions increased another 6.9% over 2023 after years of year-over-year growth. MAiD is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada. And those 16,499 deaths capture only euthanasia itself - not Canadians who die because care is inaccessible, support gaps go unresolved, or life-preserving and specialty treatments cannot be reached. We were founded in response to poverty-driven disability euthanasia, but the solution is not limited to disability: Continuity is being built for any Canadian facing a potential death where a preferable living future can still be achieved.

We call that infrastructure Continuity: the service, financial, technological, and institutional architecture required to connect a person facing potential death to a preferable living future. The model is designed to identify what would make continued life viable, assemble the intervention, solve the financing problem, and execute it. Its scope can extend from social and medical supports to frontier technologies where the body itself becomes the limiting factor.

Right to Live is building this through four core areas:

• Continuity Service — the practical service layer: identify what is driving a person toward an avoidable death, design a preferable living future, determine how it can be financed, execute the intervention, and produce an actual outcome rather than another referral dead end.
• Continuity Insurance — developing insurance-based financing so people can pre-fund access to Continuity interventions before a future death-risk scenario becomes an immediate financial crisis.
• Social Brokerage — developing a way to finance people who cannot afford Continuity by turning the anonymized outcome of a life supported into a measurable impact product for global impact buyers.
• Corporate Farming — building and incubating mission-locked organizations around the technologies, services, infrastructure, and concepts Continuity will need, then spinning them out to pursue those missions at full scale.

Right to Live is an early-stage, founder-led Canadian nonprofit built to move at startup speed on problems normally treated as separate: poverty-driven disability euthanasia, the absence of a practical service pathway to preferable living futures, the financing gaps that can make survival inaccessible, and frontier technologies that could preserve continuity when ordinary life-support pathways run out. OpenABLS is one of our most ambitious examples: a nonprofit-led, open-source Artificial Brain Life Support development project working toward a reference design that could sustain a living brain when the body can no longer support it. For the Head of Revenue, the opportunity is to build the revenue engine behind work with both immediate human impact and extraordinary long-term potential.

------ ROLE DESCRIPTION

This is a volunteer and remote role for an Advisor Board Member with Right to Live Canada.

The Advisor Board Member will learn Right to Live Canada’s top-level corporate information—including plans, operations, priorities, and future goals—and provide independent strategic guidance to the CEO.

This role is central to strengthening Right to Live Canada’s strategic judgment as we build the organization’s programs, operations, funding pathways, and long-term capacity.

The advisory process is designed to give members a clear view of the corporation’s current work, decisions, and development needs.

Orientation materials will be provided on Right to Live Canada’s corporate structure, mission, current plans, operating model, priority projects, strategy materials, and internal coordination tools.

A background in board service, executive leadership, strategic planning, business development, fundraising, finance, governance, policy, operations, or a closely related function is required.

Responsibilities include:

• Learning and maintaining a working understanding of Right to Live Canada’s plans, operations, priorities, future goals, and strategic context.
• Attending the biweekly two-hour Advisor Board meeting. Attendance is non-negotiable; this is the role’s only required meeting.
• Advising the CEO on corporate strategy, priorities, decisions, risks, opportunities, and organizational growth.
• Researching and providing practical guidance on the corporation’s current goals and growth needs.
• Providing additional strategic guidance across current priorities, including Continuity Service, Continuity Insurance, Social Brokerage, Corporate Farming, OpenABLS, sponsorship sales, and executive- or board-level fundraising.
• Identifying material gaps, dependencies, risks, and opportunities, and helping the CEO make well-grounded decisions.

This is a high-judgment role suited to someone who can absorb complex information, think independently, and provide grounded, constructive advice in a remote startup environment.

Right to Live Canada is building a culture of highly dedicated volunteers.

The Advisor Board Member will help the CEO maintain top-level perspective across Right to Live Canada’s programs, operations, funding strategy, and future development. Advisors are expected to arrive informed, engage seriously, and provide candid, useful guidance.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Universal Requirement:

• You must possess good equipment for virtual meetings, both video and audio.
• You must attend virtual meetings with the capability to give it your full attention, like a dedicated office room or space.

Required:

• Board, executive, strategic advisory, business development, fundraising, governance, operations, finance, policy, or related experience.
• Experience analyzing complex organizational, strategic, financial, operational, or program-level questions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong research, organization, and time-management skills.
• Comfort working remotely with a high degree of judgment, ownership, discretion, and follow-through.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace, shared documents, Slack, and remote collaboration tools.
• Ability to review a broad range of corporate information and turn it into clear, practical guidance.
• Professional judgment, discretion, and reliability when handling sensitive organizational information.

Preferred:

• Experience serving on a board, advisory board, executive team, or founding team.
• Experience with non-profit governance, organizational growth, or early-stage organization building.
• Experience with sponsorship sales, corporate partnerships, major gifts, or executive-level fundraising.
• Experience in one or more current RTL priority areas: Continuity Service, Continuity Insurance, Social Brokerage, Corporate Farming, or OpenABLS.
• Experience working in a remote non-profit, startup, or mission-driven organization.
• Interest in helping build durable, large-scale continuity infrastructure.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

The only required meeting is a biweekly two-hour Advisor Board meeting, and attendance is non-negotiable. Outside that meeting, advisors independently learn the relevant corporate material, conduct research, and provide guidance on strategy, goals, and growth. Right to Live Canada is an early-stage, founder-led organization pursuing rapid national and global expansion. The role is best suited to someone who is comfortable with high responsibility and serious dedication to the mission.

------ HOW TO APPLY

Apply through LinkedIn with your resume OR the form on our website ( www.righttolive.ca/volunteer ) or email volunteer@righttolive.ca.

Thank you for your consideration.