Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager (Remote, Volunteer, Part-Time)

TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION & GITHUB MANAGER — 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. 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 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

This is a part-time, volunteer, and remote role for an OpenABLS Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager with Right to Live Canada.

The OpenABLS Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager will own the project’s documentation system across its Google Drive project folder, public GitHub repository, and supporting material on the Right to Live Canada website. The role exists to turn the project’s ongoing work into a durable, organized, accurate, and publicly usable source of knowledge.

OpenABLS development generates component research, presentations, recorded meetings, questions and answers, system maps, diagrams, design files, build notes, manuals, articles, and source links. This person will establish an approachable structure that keeps those materials connected, current, traceable, and understandable to present contributors, future volunteers, external technical reviewers, sponsors, and the public.

Responsibilities include maintaining the Google Drive folder and GitHub repository; establishing clear folder, repository, naming, versioning, and contribution standards; collecting and organizing team outputs; maintaining project overviews, roadmaps, component documentation, design and build documentation, source references, and release history; coordinating with the appropriate web design volunteer so current documentation is properly linked and presented on the Right to Live Canada website; and working with the OpenABLS Communications & Content Manager to support accurate public communications, media materials, creator work, and project updates.

This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who follows up actively, identifies missing or outdated information, routes technical questions to the appropriate contributors, and ensures answers are added to the project record. The role must preserve the distinction between current work, validated findings, concept designs, unresolved questions, and the project’s long-term vision. The minimum commitment is 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work.

The role will work closely with the Head of Product Development, project management, biomedical and engineering contributors, the Communications & Content Manager, web design volunteers, and Right to Live Canada leadership. The goal is a documentation system that remains useful even when individual contributors leave and that supports open, AI-assisted, globally distributed development.

------ 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:

• Experience managing technical documentation, knowledge bases, documentation operations, information architecture, or closely related project documentation.
• Practical experience with Git, GitHub, Markdown, repositories, issues, pull requests, and release or change history.
• Strong proficiency with Google Drive, Google Docs, shared folders, file organization, permissions, and collaborative workflows.
• Ability to organize complex scientific or engineering information without changing its technical meaning.
• Excellent technical writing, editing, and information-synthesis skills.
• Ability to establish and enforce clear naming, versioning, contribution, and archival standards.
• Ability to coordinate across technical, web, communications, and project-management contributors and follow up until materials are complete.
• Comfort working remotely with a high degree of ownership, judgment, consistency, and follow-through.
• Ability to manage a growing body of documentation while maintaining accuracy, traceability, and a clear source of truth.

Preferred:

• Experience documenting biomedical, medical-device, life-science, laboratory, hardware, or other complex technical projects.
• Experience supporting open-source projects or docs-as-code workflows.
• Familiarity with website content management or coordinating documentation for Wix or a comparable website platform.
• Experience organizing diagrams, system maps, CAD or 3D files, presentation recordings, and other mixed technical media.
• Experience using AI tools for source-grounded knowledge management, documentation assistance, or information retrieval.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

This is a part-time volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week, including all meetings and role work. 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

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.