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 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 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.