Are you passionate about supporting immigrants and refugees through the journey of making Canada their home?

Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) is a non-profit community agency which provides a broad range of multilingual and multicultural settlement services to newcomers to facilitate their successful adaptation and integration process. It works with a broad range of community service providers and other partners to enhance the collective community capacity to help newcomer individuals and families with their information, orientation, job-seeking, and adaptation needs, as well as facilitate dialogue with mainstream service providers in responding to the diverse community.

The Opportunity 

We are seeking volunteers from within the Ottawa region, committed to OCISO’s mission and values to serve a renewable 2-year term on the Board of Directors. The Board typically meets every second month and provides governance direction and support to the Executive Director and the management team.

Expectations of individual board members include:

• Knowing the organization’s mission, policies, programs, and needs.
• Preparing for, attending, and conscientiously participating in board meetings.
• Serving as active advocates and ambassadors for the organization.
• Participating fully in one or more committees or task forces.

Ideal candidates must have one or more of the following areas of expertise: 

• Legal
• Advocacy/Public Policy
• Nonprofit Governance
• Social Services
• Finance and Audit
• Communications/Marketing

Assets:

• Fundraising 
• Change Management
• Strategic Planning

The Process 

Interested individuals can notify Azima Ruzuddinova at [email protected] of their interest, and application must include: 

• A copy of a resume, and 
• A cover letter that includes area of expertise 

Deadline: Friday, August 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.

If successful moving forward in the process, interviews will be conducted the week of September 9th.