Volunteer Board Treasurer (CPA)

About HOPE

HOPE - Helping Other Parents Everywhere - is a registered Canadian charity that has supported parents and caregivers for nearly two decades. HOPE is a network of evidence-based peer support groups for parents concerned about their teen or adult children. The challenges families face are as diverse as our community - a young person's mental health, substance misuse or addiction, technology overuse, conflict with the law, leaving or struggling at school, and more. We support families from all walks of life and backgrounds.

When a teenager or adult child is struggling, the parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and others in a caring role often carry it quietly and alone. HOPE changes that. Through peer support led by parents who have walked similar roads, families find understanding, practical suggestions, and the steadying reassurance that they are not alone.

"HOPE is an oasis for families facing difficulties they never imagined - a safe place to learn, share, and strategize."

— HOPE parent

The opportunity

Every parent who finds support at HOPE relies on our being steadily there when they reach out. As volunteer Treasurer on our Board, you contribute to keeping it that way - providing the financial oversight and strategic guidance that lets HOPE plan and operate with confidence.

HOPE has entered a new chapter, having transitioned from an all-volunteer model to a staff-led one, with an Executive Director, Program Manager, and Strategic Outreach Manager now in place - expanding our capacity to make a meaningful, lasting impact for significantly more struggling parents and youth. The Treasurer's role sits right at the heart of that evolution and would benefit from both strategic experience and financial expertise. It's a genuine builder's seat, not a caretaker's - the kind of role where your judgment and experience shape how the organization matures, not simply maintains what exists.

What distinguishes HOPE is the directness of the work. We exist to support parents walking through some of the hardest stretches of their lives, and the line between quality governance and real human impact is uniquely short here. The board feels that closeness, and it makes financial stewardship particularly purposeful in advancing HOPE's mission.

With an Executive Director and bookkeeper in place, this is not a hands-on accounting position. Our board is well structured, our meetings are focused and purposeful, and our culture is to make the work enjoyable while we fulfil our governance responsibilities.

What you'd do

• Provide financial oversight and guidance to the Board and Executive Director
• Review financial reports and support development of the annual budget
• Help ensure compliance with CRA requirements and sound financial controls
• Advise on financial policy, risk, and emerging governance issues
• Chair the Finance and Audit Committee and serve on the Executive Committee

(Full role description available on request)

What we're looking for

• CPA designation
• Experience with nonprofit or charitable financial oversight an asset
• Comfort advising from a governance perspective rather than doing day-to-day financial management
• A clear communicator who can make financial information accessible to a diverse board
• Belief in HOPE's mission and the modest time it asks for

What that includes

Four virtual board meetings, a virtual AGM, executive committee meetings, and finance committee meetings when constituted, plus preparation and review.

We believe volunteering here offers what many find most rewarding: important work, done efficiently and with real impact, alongside good people you will enjoy being with.

To express interest

Your skills and experience would directly support HOPE's mission to stand alongside parents facing significant challenges with a young person. We would welcome a conversation.

Please send your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your interest in HOPE to Leanne Lewis, Board Chair, at leanne.lewis@hope4parents.ca by October 30, 2026.