NON-PROFIT BOARD POSITIONS

Needed: Board Members
Type: non-profit board of directors / unpaid
Organization: Compost Education Centre
Location: Victoria BC or remote, anywhere in BC

We are looking for individuals with a variety of perspectives, skills, and experience to join our Board of Directors. Share your passion for composting, ecological conservation, and food justice! For more information and to fill out the form to apply, go here. Please indicate you saw this posting at GoodWork.ca.

The Compost Education Centre’s vision is to cultivate resilient communities, which enable the land and all living beings to thrive. Our mission is to reconnect people, young and old, to land-based resilience-building practices related to composting, ecological gardening, and conservation. Our organizational practices sustain the organization, the natural environment, and our communities. We actively work towards right relations, anti-oppression, and environmental justice in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples on whose land we work. Our core values are reciprocity, adaptability, curiosity, joy, and groundedness.

Benefits of Participating

• Fantastic opportunity to build experience in organizational growth, not-for-profit, and charity work
• Connect and collaborate with a dedicated team that is passionate about waste reduction, soil conservation, local food production, and the intersections between food, land, and environmental justice
• Training and leadership development opportunities on topics including soil conservation and composting, team building, social enterprise development, event coordination, sustainable living skills, and DEI
• Contribute to the wellbeing of your community, local ecosystems, and the broader environment

Helpful Skills and Experience

• A love for composting, food and environmental justice, urban agriculture, waste diversion, and soil health!
• Familiarity with non-profits including prior experience on or working with a Board of Directors
• Leadership experience
• Fundraising experience and familiarity with revenue generation in non-profit structures

Board of Directors FAQs

What is a Board of Directors? The Board is responsible for setting mission and strategic direction, providing high-level oversight, and serving as ambassadors of the organization. The CEC’s Board is a dynamic team focused on supporting the organization’s mission.

What would I do as a Board member? You attend board meetings every month and may join a committee to work on additional projects (e.g. Fundraising, DEI initiatives, etc.). You commit to a two-year term consisting of an average of 5-10 hours of work per month.

Can anyone become a Board Member? Yes! To join the Board, you have to become a member before October 6, communicate your interest by filling out the form here, and attend our AGM on Thursday, November 7, 2024 to get nominated. If the cost of membership is a barrier to you becoming a Board Member and/or there are other barriers you have identified, please reach out to Claire at info@compost.bc.ca to discuss accommodations.

What are the perks of joining the Board? Volunteering with a charitable non-profit organization provides practical work skills. It’s also a way to meet very cool and like-minded folks from other professions and disciplines. You also get awesome snacks at every board meeting, and we do staff and board dinners once or twice a year.

Are Board Members paid? Unfortunately, no. The BC Societies Act prohibits us from paying Board Members. These positions are volunteer.

Apply

For more information and to fill out the form to apply, go here. 

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