Board of Director
Save the Children International (Save the Children)
Director and Top Executive Full-time Board of Director Role (Volunteer Opportunity)
LEAD WHERE IT MATTERS MOST
Children's rights are under pressure globally. Conflict, climate change, and systemic inequality are reshaping what it means to protect a child's future. Save the Children Canada is entering a pivotal new strategic cycle, and we are building a Board of Directors equal to that moment.
We are seeking exceptional leaders who bring not only expertise, but conviction, people who understand governance at scale and are ready to apply that experience to the world’s most consequential arenas.
WHY EXECUTIVES CHOOSE THIS BOARD
🌍Global Influence Shape strategy across programs in more than 110 countries, directly influencing how one of the world's most trusted humanitarian brands operates. | 🤝 Peer Network Join a board of senior executives, policy leaders, and global development professionals. Build relationships that extend well beyond the boardroom. | 📋 Governance at Scale Exercise fiduciary and strategic oversight of a multi-million-dollar organization navigating complex global challenges, meaningful governance experience with real consequence |
Additionally, board members report that serving on the Save the Children Canada board sharpens their thinking on global systems, stakeholder complexity, and mission-driven leadership — capabilities that translate directly back to their professional roles.
ABOUT SAVE THE CHILDREN CANADA
For more than 100 years, Save the Children has operated at the node of humanitarian response and long-term development. We give children in Canada and across 110 countries a healthy start in life, opportunities to learn, and protection from harm – among the first to respond and the last to leave. Our Canadian operation is the country-level expression of that global purpose — fundraising and advocating for children both domestically and internationally. Board members shape how that mandate is fulfilled.
Learn more: savethechildren.ca
OUR STRATEGIC DIRECTION
Save the Children Canada is concluding our 2022–27 strategy – one of the most ambitious transformations in our history. Our next chapter requires board members who can think boldly about institutional change.
We are driven by a unique "Inside-Out" Theory of Transformation. By centering decolonization, anti-racism, and power shifts within our own governance, we fundamentally alter how we support the rights and well-being of children. As a Board Director, this means governing an institution that is actively reshaping its own power dynamics while pursuing global impact. It is complex, consequential work that empowers local leadership and diverse communities.
THE BOARD PROFILE WE ARE BUILDING
Your technical credentials matter — but so does the perspective you bring to the table. We are actively working to ensure our board reflects the communities and contexts in which we work and have organized our current priorities into four key leadership brackets:
Lived and Sector Experience: If you fit into one or more of these profiles, we would like you to join us.
We are committed to building a board where diverse expertise and diverse experience coexist because governing a global children's rights organization demands nothing less. Lived experience in the communities Save the Children Canada works with, including Indigenous Nations in Canada and communities across the Global Majority (regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean shaped by histories of colonization and global inequality) is especially welcome.
WHAT BOARD MEMBERSHIP LOOKS LIKE
We have designed board participation to be substantive and respectful of your time. Here is what to expect:
APPLICATION PROCESS
We value your time and have kept the process straightforward. Here is what is involved:
How to Apply
We welcome applications from leaders across professional and non-traditional pathways. Please send your application through our [online portal] including:
Deadline: May 8th 2026
Interviews: Virtual interviews via MS Teams will be scheduled with shortlisted candidates.
Save the Children Canada is committed to accessible and inclusive recruitment, in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Accommodations are available at any stage of the process — please let us know what you need.
Save the Children Canada acknowledges the lands on which we work as the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples, and we are committed to meaningful action on Truth and Reconciliation.
