HR Department Head - Volunteer Human Resources Leader (Remote, Volunteer, Full Time)

Organization: Right to Live Canada
Location: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)
Time Commitment: We are ideally seeking a full-time volunteer commitment of approximately 35 hours per week. However, exceptional candidates with strong HR leadership experience may be considered on a serious part-time basis, provided they can commit at least 20 hours per week. Duration is negotiable, with a four-month minimum commitment.

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 emitting 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

We are seeking someone to serve as HR Department Head with Right to Live Canada in a remote volunteer capacity. Ideally, this would be a full-time commitment, though exceptional candidates with strong HR leadership experience may be considered on a serious part-time basis. The HR Department is a newly formalized function, and the HR Department Head will take ownership of building, managing, and improving it at startup velocity.

Because Right to Live Canada does not yet have paid employees, this role is not currently focused on employee paperwork, payroll, benefits administration, or paid staff compliance. At this stage, the HR Department is focused entirely on volunteer recruitment, volunteer management, turnover management, replacement recruitment, onboarding coordination, volunteer recognition, HR team coordination, quality control, and the operating systems required to scale a serious volunteer organization.

The HR Department is one of the core foundations of Right to Live Canada’s growth. Its central function is to recruit personnel for new roles, replace outgoing personnel, manage volunteer turnover, and support the organization’s ability to scale. The department also supports volunteer recognition, including LinkedIn recognition and letters of reference, helping ensure that volunteer contributions are acknowledged, celebrated, and documented.

Responsibilities include designing and improving the HR department’s organizational structure, roles, processes, SOPs, strategy, recruiting workflows, quality standards, and operating rhythm. The HR Department Head will manage HR personnel, including team leads, recruiters, administrative assistants, and other HR volunteers as the department grows. They will ensure that HR personnel complete their duties correctly, diligently, consistently, and with professional judgment.

This role will oversee the department’s volunteer recruiting function, including role prioritization, applicant flow, recruiter activity, candidate pipelines, interview coordination, onboarding handoffs, replacement recruiting, turnover response, recruitment quality control, and escalation of blocked or urgent staffing needs. The HR Department Head will work closely with executive leadership to align HR with organizational priorities and ensure that high-priority volunteer roles are actively being filled.

The HR Department operates in a remote virtual-office environment. The HR Department Head will be responsible for maintaining the department’s meeting cadence, including executive leadership / HR meetings, HR all-hands meetings, HR department head / team lead meetings, team meetings, and as-needed meetings for recognition, onboarding, interviews, candidate decisions, blocked handoffs, role clarification, process fixes, or conduct concerns.

This is a high-ownership leadership role suited to someone who can build, manage, and continuously improve a volunteer HR department in a remote startup environment. Right to Live Canada is building a culture of highly dedicated volunteers. The role is ideally intended for candidates able to make a full-time volunteer commitment of approximately 35 hours per week. Exceptional candidates with strong HR leadership experience may be considered on a serious part-time basis, provided they can commit at least 20 hours per week. Preference will be given to candidates who are able and willing to contribute at a higher level during important growth periods, launch periods, or urgent organizational needs.

The role will work closely with the Executive Director and other organizational leads. As the HR function grows, this role will be responsible for helping scale the department into a larger, replicable structure with team leads, recruiters, administrative support, and additional HR personnel.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

● Experience in human resources, recruitment, talent acquisition, people operations, volunteer management, or a closely related function.
● Prior experience managing, leading, or coordinating an HR department, recruitment team, people operations team, volunteer department, or comparable personnel function.
● Ability to build and formalize an HR function from an early-stage or startup environment.
● Ability to take ownership of department structure, processes, SOPs, strategy, quality control, and personnel management.
● Ability to manage HR personnel, team leads, recruiters, administrative assistants, or equivalent team members.
● Experience with recruiting workflows, applicant screening, interviewing, candidate evaluation, onboarding, and personnel records.
● Strong written and verbal communication skills.
● Strong organization, time management, and operational follow-through.
● Comfort working remotely with a high degree of ownership, urgency, and independent execution.
● Familiarity with Google Workspace, shared calendars, Slack, virtual meetings, and basic applicant tracking workflows.
● Ability to manage multiple open roles, candidate pipelines, team responsibilities, and department priorities at the same time.
● Professional judgment, discretion, and reliability when handling applicant, volunteer, and personnel information.

Preferred:

● Prior experience as a Head of HR, HR Manager, People Operations Manager, Recruitment Manager, Talent Acquisition Lead, Volunteer Manager, or comparable HR leadership role.
● Experience building or improving HR departments, recruiting systems, volunteer departments, or people operations workflows.
● Experience managing HR or recruitment in a non-profit, startup, volunteer, remote, or mission-driven organization.
● Experience designing SOPs, meeting cadences, reporting structures, role ownership systems, or department quality-control processes.
● Experience with volunteer recruitment, turnover management, retention, recognition, onboarding, references, or performance follow-up.
● Interest in building a large-scale, high-performance volunteer organization.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

We are ideally seeking a full-time volunteer commitment of approximately 35 hours per week. However, exceptional candidates with strong HR leadership experience may be considered on a serious part-time basis, provided they can commit at least 20 hours per week. Duration is negotiable, with a four-month minimum commitment.

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.

------ WHAT VOLUNTEERING MEANS AT RIGHT TO LIVE

Volunteering with Right to Live is not a casual Saturday afternoon hobby. In light of the stakes and potential impact, we ask individuals to give their best to volunteering. We take our struggle to uphold life, and in implication, defeat death, very seriously. To borrow a poem from Martin Treptow, '"[We] must win this war! Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone."' We blend multiple elements of flexibility with seriousness, the startup element requiring fast velocity and global aspirations while fostering creativity and innovation, and allowing for flexible schedules ranging from part time to 996. Overall, we aim to make Right to Live the place where individuals exemplify their best and push for a world where continuity is not a dream or privilege but a right.