Deputy Director (Remote, Volunteer, Full Time)

DEPUTY DIRECTOR — VOLUNTEER, FULL-TIME

Organization: Right to Live Canada

Department: Global Narrative Integrity Team

Location: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)

Time Commitment: Full-time volunteer commitment, 35 hours per week. 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 realize the right to live as a practical, supported, executable choice.

We were founded in response to systemic poverty-driven euthanasia amongst Canadians with disabilities: cases where Canadians choose MAiD because they cannot access the essentials required to continue living. This is a specific form of economic euthanasia: euthanasia where a preferable living future existed, but was not achieved.

That crisis remains our founding application point. It is not the boundary of our work.

Right to Live Canada is building Continuity: the service, financial, technological, and institutional architecture required to keep life connected to preferable living futures. We work from the recognition that biological escape velocity may become achievable for a significant portion of people alive today, and that the right to live must now be pursued with the seriousness, urgency, and scale appropriate to that possibility.

Our four core areas are:

• Continuity Service — developing a service to identify, propose, finance and execute preferable living futures in the event of potential death.
• Continuity Insurance — developing a finance model for Continuity Service in the event of potential death scenarios.
• Social Brokerage — developing a system to productize and sell the anonymized outcome of a life supported to the global market as an impact product in exchange for the capital to accomplish it, in order to fund those who cannot afford Continuity Service or Insurance.
• Corporate Farming — developing a global-scale system to take concepts, form a structure around them starting with a team, incubate them internally and nurture their growth towards incorporation, and then emit them as formed non-profits dedicated to their founding concept such as a technology, project, infrastructure or issue.

Right to Live Canada is a founder-centric, early-stage non-profit pursuing rapid national and global expansion. We use the advantages of the non-profit form—volunteer-class labor, sponsorship sales, grants, subsidized infrastructure, open development, impact monetization, and institutional farming—to uphold and extend the right to live for humans and, ultimately, other conscious beings.

------ ROLE DESCRIPTION

This is a full-time, volunteer, and remote role for the Deputy Director within the Global Narrative Integrity Team at Right to Live Canada.

The Deputy Director serves as the organization's chief operational leader, responsible for translating strategic direction into effective day-to-day execution. Working directly alongside the Head of Global Narrative Integrity, this position coordinates departmental operations, oversees organizational workflows, allocates resources, and ensures that every department operates efficiently within a unified operational framework.

The Deputy Director supervises the organization's daily activities across Editorial Operations, Media Intelligence, Research & Evidence, Editorial Outreach, Public Affairs, Digital Operations & Knowledge Management, and Strategic Communications. This position ensures that priorities established by executive leadership are communicated effectively, projects remain on schedule, and volunteers receive the support necessary to perform at a high standard.

The successful candidate will oversee operational planning, facilitate cross-department collaboration, monitor organizational performance, remove operational bottlenecks, and continuously improve workflows as the organization expands. The Deputy Director also plays a key role in onboarding new department leaders, mentoring volunteers, maintaining accountability, and ensuring consistent communication across the organization.

This role combines executive operations, organizational management, project coordination, and volunteer leadership. It is ideal for someone who enjoys building systems, improving efficiency, and helping multidisciplinary teams succeed within a fast-growing nonprofit environment.

------ PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities include:

• Oversee the daily operations of the Global Narrative Integrity Team.
• Coordinate activities between all organizational departments to ensure consistent execution of priorities.
• Allocate organizational resources and assist department leads with workload planning.
• Monitor operational performance and identify opportunities for workflow improvement.
• Support volunteer development through coaching, mentoring, and regular performance discussions.
• Coordinate weekly leadership meetings and facilitate communication between executive leadership and department managers.
• Ensure departmental objectives remain aligned with the organization's strategic priorities.
• Track project timelines, organizational deliverables, and operational milestones.
• Assist with the development of new operational procedures, internal documentation, and organizational policies.
• Participate in daily editorial briefings and weekly operational planning meetings.
• Collaborate with department leaders to resolve operational challenges and improve organizational effectiveness.
• Contribute to organizational growth by helping develop scalable systems capable of supporting future volunteer expansion.

This is a high-responsibility leadership role suited to an individual who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced startup environment. The successful candidate should possess excellent organizational judgment, the ability to coordinate multiple simultaneous initiatives, and a commitment to continuous organizational improvement. The expected commitment is 35+ hours per week, with preference given to candidates who can contribute additional time during major organizational initiatives or periods of rapid growth.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Experience in operations management, project management, nonprofit administration, organizational leadership, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing complex workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational, planning, and time-management abilities.
• Ability to prioritize multiple concurrent projects while maintaining attention to detail.
• Comfort working remotely with a high degree of ownership, initiative, and accountability.
• Experience facilitating collaboration across diverse teams.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Professional judgment, reliability, and discretion when managing organizational information.
• Commitment to a full-time volunteer schedule of approximately 35 hours per week.

Preferred

• Experience managing remote teams within nonprofit organizations, startups, or mission-driven initiatives.
• Experience implementing operational systems, project management methodologies, or workflow optimization.
• Familiarity with editorial operations, communications, research, or public affairs organizations.
• Experience using collaborative productivity platforms such as Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Airtable, Asana, or similar organizational tools.
• Demonstrated ability to develop scalable organizational processes and volunteer management systems.
• Interest in helping build a globally scalable public affairs organization dedicated to evidence-based communication and narrative integrity.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

This is a full-time volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 35 hours per week. 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 startup intensity, high responsibility, and a culture of serious dedication to the mission.

------ HOW TO APPLY

Please email your resume to volunteer@righttolive.ca to apply.

Thank you for your consideration.