Operations Director

Operations Director
At Green Economy Canada we envision an economy where environmental sustainability,
human well-being, and business success are synonymous.

Green Economy Canada is a national non-profit accelerating Canada’s transition to a vibrant and inclusive net-zero future. We lead a network of Green Economy Hubs across the country that bring together, support and celebrate businesses in taking action on climate change and
building sustainability into their operations. To date, over 600 businesses have been supported
to collectively reduce over 225,000 tonnes of GHG emissions -- the equivalent of removing over 69,000 cars off the road each year. Join us in making business better, together!

The Opportunity
The Operations Director plays a key role in ensuring that Green Economy Canada has a strong
internal foundation to do our best work and continue to scale our impact across Canada. You
are a values-driven and results-focused leader who is excited to help our organization run like a
well-oiled machine and deliver on its commitments. You are highly organized with exceptional
interpersonal skills and have experience with people and financial management. You are skilled
at holding the big picture alongside diving into the details, and enjoy thinking about and
improving how we collaborate, communicate, and achieve our ambitious goals together as a
remote team.

Does this sound like you? Then join our team of changemakers and let’s transform business as
usual!

Ideal Start Date: September 3, 2025

Term: Full-time, ~13 month contract (parental leave cover, including 3-4 weeks of overlap
training)

Salary: $82,000 / year

Benefits:
● Health and dental package or $2,000 health and wellness allowance / year (if opting out
of benefits due to existing spousal coverage)


● Access to virtual Employee Assistance Program
● $60 / month home office stipend
● ~6 weeks off annually consisting of: 3 weeks discretionary vacation time + 2 weeks shut
down over December holidays, Summer Fridays (bi-weekly Fridays off during July and
August), and Green Economy Canada’s expanded statutory holiday policy which provides
12 equalized stat holidays per year to the entire staff team regardless of province or
territory of residence.
● Flexible work arrangements to maintain a healthy work life balance
● Access to a professional development budget and dedicated work time to pursue PD
opportunities
● Strong collaborative culture, meaningful work, and awesome teammates!

Location: Remote work opportunity, must be located in Canada

Reports to: Executive Director

Direct Reports: Operations Coordinator

What Does the Operations Director Do?
The Operations Director and Operations Coordinator form the Operations Team. They work
together with the support of the Executive Director to deliver on all aspects of Green Economy
Canada’s operations.

HR (35%)
● Champion GEC’s team culture by developing and maintaining practices that ensure GEC
is a psychologically safe, supportive, and socially-connected place to work, proactively
keeping a pulse on team and organizational health, and receiving internal feedback.
● Work with the Executive Director and Operations Coordinator to ensure GEC’s human
resources needs are filled, including overseeing our hiring, onboarding, and offboarding
processes, and leading retention initiatives such as internal progression pathways,
professional development processes, and compensation reviews.
● Act as GEC’s staff Human Resources representative, providing guidance on human
resource questions and challenges, and utilizing our external HR advisor as needed.

Finance & Legal (35%)
● Ensure that GEC meets its legal and financial obligations federally and across all
provinces in Canada that we operate in.
● Work with the Operations Coordinator, Bookkeeper, Board Treasurer, and Executive
Director to proactively monitor organizational financial health, and ensure strong
financial management of the organization, including: ensuring cash flow records and books are up to date, approving payroll, approving expense reports, ensuring annual government filings are up to date, ensuring receivables and payables are managed
appropriately, and preparing financial statements for quarterly board meetings.
● Co-lead annual budget development with the Executive Director.
● Work with the Operations Coordinator, Bookkeeper, and Board Treasurer to prepare for
and successfully complete our annual financial audit.
● Lead improvements to GEC’s financial tracking systems, financial controls, and
processes to ensure more accurate, efficient and streamlined tracking and reporting of
GEC’s finances organisation-wide.
● Liaise with our external finance and legal advisors as necessary to support GEC’s work.
General Operations (15%)
● Work with the Operations Coordinator to create and manage GEC’s policies and
practices, including those that enable GEC to authentically contribute to addressing
racial equity and Indigenous reconciliation as we carry out our work.
● Work with the Operations Coordinator to ensure that staff have the right tools,
processes, technology, and digital infrastructure they need to do their work effectively.
Advocate for improvements to GEC’s systems based on external learnings and feedback
from team members.
● Host or support all team learning and convening opportunities, including staff Townhalls,
an annual Truth & Reconciliation Unlearning Day, and other trainings and socials.
● Navigate and prioritize net new operations work that arises.

Strategy & Governance (15%)
● Work alongside the Executive Director and Operations Coordinator to prepare for
quarterly board meetings by creating the board package, identifying board discussion
topics, and ensuring action items are completed post-meetings.
● Steward planning processes (e.g. strategic, annual, quarterly) with support and guidance
from the Executive Director and other members of the Senior Leadership Team, and set
up systems and processes for the team to effectively track progress towards goals.


What We Hope You Will Bring
We recognize that potential candidates may not apply for a position if they don’t hit every single criteria included in the job description—particularly members of underrepresented groups. Even if your experience doesn’t necessarily check off all the boxes below, we still encourage you to apply, and promise that your application will receive a review from our team. We also know that a resume can only show so much at this stage, so we encourage you to share more about yourself. For example, if you've made career transitions, you’re self taught in a new role, or you have skills/experience you’d like to highlight, we want to hear more about what you could bring to this role, and to our organization.
● Relevant work experience (5+ years): including managing budgets and financial
reporting, managing teams and organizational processes, and developing and
implementing strategy.
● Project management and organizational skills: Demonstrated success with managing
significant projects and project plans from conceptualization through to implementation;
can effectively lead a project team, manage logistics and competing priorities, and
navigate trade-offs to achieve the desired outcomes.
● People management: Experience managing direct reports, with a track record of team
building and developing others. Values-driven leader who fosters a culture of
empowerment, inclusion and psychological safety.
● Critical-thinker and strategic decision-maker: Can think critically and strategically to
create potential solutions and recommendations with strong justification, and inform key
decision-making across the Green Economy Canada team; can act decisively to focus
resources on the highest value activities.
● Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills: With an ability to listen well and
work collaboratively with team members to support a caring, productive, and positive
work dynamic. You are comfortable working both independently and remotely, with an
ability to form strong collaborative relationships with team members and external
partners, and support direct reports to excel in their role. Ability to anticipate, negotiate,
and resolve conflict.
● Comfort with organizational tools and platforms: including Excel, Google Docs, Asana,
and Slack and are comfortable learning new technologies. Experience with Quickbooks
is a significant asset.
● Proactive, conscientious and detail-oriented: You are proactive in identifying what
needs to get done and where there might be road blocks, actively communicate and
close the loop, and ultimately build trust that work is completed with quality and care.
● A learning and resourceful mindset: to help find solutions to challenges while growing
your knowledge and skills and Green Economy Canada’s capabilities. Strong comfort
with navigating ambiguity. You are receptive to feedback, strive to learn from mistakes
and experiences, and integrate those learnings in a thoughtful way to achieve stronger
outcomes in the future.
● Integrity, authenticity and a passion for creating transformative impact: You believe in
the work we’re trying to achieve, and will act as a professional ambassador for Green
Economy Canada. You model values of trust, vulnerability, and integrity.
● Excitement for working in a small but innovative non-profit with ambitious
sustainability goals. You enjoy having diverse but focused work, a flexible and evolving
working environment, and opportunities to learn and grow alongside wonderful people.

How To Apply
Please submit your application here. Any questions about the role can be directed to the
attention of Melissa Gerrard, Operations Director, at hr@greeneconomy.ca. Interviews will be
conducted on a rolling basis starting the week of August 4 and will continue until the position is
filled.

Please advise if you have any accommodation needs - we are committed to ensuring you can
participate fully in the recruitment process. We sincerely thank all applicants, however, we will
only be able to personally contact those selected for an interview.

Green Economy Canada is an equal opportunity employer where a diverse mix of talented people
do their best work because of, not in spite of, our differences. We are committed to providing an
inclusive and welcoming environment for all staff, volunteers, members, subcontractors, and
vendors in all our activities and operations, regardless of race, colour, religion (creed), gender
identity, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), dis/ability, marital status, or sexual
orientation.

What’s it Like Working at Green Economy Canada?
At Green Economy Canada, we seek to blend the nimbleness and autonomy of a small team
with the influence and opportunities afforded to a national network.

● We are bold, ambitious and optimistic. Our vision is for an economy that makes
environmental sustainability, human well-being, and business success synonymous.
● We care about what we each accomplish, not where we work from or how many hours
we put in.
● We want working together to feel effortless and the ways we work together to be
intuitive.
● We embrace innovation: we’re willing to take risks, we know we’ll make mistakes along
the way, and we push ourselves to apply what we learn each time. At Green Economy
Canada, it’s okay to fail.
● We have fun, enjoy working together, and laugh often.
● We’re not satisfied with the status quo: we don’t think “because that’s how it’s always
been done” justifies a course of action. We challenge each other, think critically, and
strive for objective decision-making.

Our Manifesto:
Now is the time to transform business-as-usual. From the climate crisis to vast social
inequalities, we know the status quo isn’t working.

Together, we can change this.
It takes all of us — every business and organization across Canada — to seize this moment. It’s
a matter of rethinking what we do and how we do it, and working together to make it a reality.
Green Economy Canada sees what’s possible.

Our network is a place for leaders who are ready to challenge the status quo and make the
transition to a vibrant and inclusive net-zero future.

It’s a journey we will take with you.

It starts with listening and understanding what can be done differently. It means providing the
guidance, tools, and connections to help you succeed. It accelerates when businesses,
non-profits and governments join forces. And it ends with seeing how we can do more together
than alone.

So, join us, and let’s make business better, together.