Director of Social Finance & Impact Products (Remote, Volunteer, Part-Time)

DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL FINANCE & IMPACT PRODUCTS — VOLUNTEER, PART-TIME

Organization: Right to Live Canada

Location: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)

Time Commitment: Part-time volunteer commitment, minimum 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work. 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. The work combines immediate human impact with extraordinary long-term potential.

------ ROLE DESCRIPTION

This is a part-time, volunteer, and remote department-head role for a Director of Social Finance & Impact Products with Right to Live Canada.

Right to Live Canada calls the model Social Brokerage. It is being developed to turn an approved, budgeted Continuity plan into a standardized impact product that a corporation, foundation, institution, impact investor, or other capital provider can choose to fund. The capital is used to execute the plan, and the buyer receives verified, anonymized reporting on the achieved outcome. The model is early-stage and is not yet operating.

The Director will build and run the Social Brokerage department and own the model from concept through validation, pilot, and a repeatable operating system. They will recruit and organize the teams and specialist capabilities required through People Services, rather than being expected to personally perform every function.

The Director’s mandate is to make the mechanism real: define what is sold and why buyers would purchase it; establish how approved Continuity plans are matched with capital; and create a trustworthy process for funding, execution, verification, privacy-protected reporting, and institutional participation. They will determine the department’s workstreams, assign ownership, validate the model with prospective buyers and specialist partners, and drive it toward an end-to-end pilot.

This role requires a builder, not a general fundraiser. The successful candidate should have personally led, or held substantial responsibility for, taking a comparable social-finance, outcomes-based finance, impact-investment, blended-finance, pay-for-success, or impact-product system from idea into a tested or launched mechanism. The minimum commitment is 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work.

The Director reports to organizational leadership and works closely with Continuity Service and Continuity Insurance. They have authority to build the Social Brokerage department and issue recruiting requests for the teams and expertise required.

------ 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:

• Direct experience building or developing a social-finance mechanism, impact-investment product, outcomes-based finance program, social impact bond, blended-finance facility, pay-for-success arrangement, or comparable impact platform.
• Evidence of moving a new financial or impact product from concept into pilot, launch, executed transactions, or operational use.
• Senior leadership experience building and running a cross-functional team, function, program, or department.
• Ability to design a clear impact proposition, buyer value proposition, operating model, transaction flow, and path to market.
• Experience engaging corporations, foundations, financial institutions, impact investors, governments, or other institutional capital providers.
• Ability to lead specialists across impact measurement, finance, operations, risk, privacy, governance, legal, and compliance without pretending to replace their expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit leaders and specialists, delegate ownership, establish accountability, and remove blockers.
• Ability to use AI-assisted research, analysis, and documentation workflows to accelerate development while maintaining verification and professional standards.
• Excellent leadership, communication, judgment, commercial reasoning, and follow-through in an ambiguous startup environment.

Preferred:

• Direct experience taking an outcomes-based fund, social impact bond, impact marketplace, results-based financing mechanism, or comparable system from design through capital commitment and execution.
• Existing senior relationships across impact investing, corporate social impact, philanthropy, foundations, financial institutions, or outcomes finance.
• Experience developing financial or impact products involving sensitive human-services, health, disability, housing, or social-support outcomes.
• Experience establishing legal, regulatory, compliance, underwriting, verification, or risk controls for a new financial or impact mechanism.
• Zero-to-one startup, nonprofit venture-building, or new-department experience with responsibility for both strategy and execution.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

This is a part-time volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week, including all meetings and role work, for at least four months. 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 serious ownership of a new department and system.

------ 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.