We are currently recruiting for new members to join our Board of Directors!
Women’s Habitat provides a safe refuge, counselling, support and advocacy for women-identified persons and their children who are fleeing violence. We work collaboratively in our community towards a more equal society.
We believe:
- Everyone has the right to live free from violence
- Gender-based and intimate partner violence is an epidemic, present in many forms
- All women have the right to make choices
- Community, including men, must work collaboratively to eradicate gender-based violence.
Our organization:
- Operates within a feminist framework
- Applies trauma-informed, anti-racist anti-oppressive frameworks
- Promotes equity for all women and children
- Recognizes and respects diversity
- Addresses all forms of gender-based violence, including physical, economic, sexual, as well as emotional (psychological) abuse.
Women’s Habitat of Etobicoke (WHE) is a feminist, multi-service, community-based organization in South Etobicoke, serving diverse women and their dependents experiencing violence and poverty since 1978. In 2006, WHE opened an outreach centre to respond to the increasing needs for services for victims and survivors of domestic violence.
WHE offers transformational services and programs in two distinct locations to address the impact of violence and poverty on women and their dependents which includes, safety audits, safety planning, trauma-informed crisis and ongoing counseling services, housing support services, advocacy and referrals to settlement and community resources, as well as skills and capacity building for promoting healthy relationships and prevention of gender-based violence.
Board of Directors:
Our Board of Directors is comprised of between 9 and 11 volunteers, each serving a maximum of two three-year terms. Applications are invited for up to four (4) new Board members.
Skills and experience desired:
- Previous service on a Board of Directors
- Previous work in not-for-profit sector
- Policy development
- Public relations
- Fundraising
- Risk Management
- Knowledge/awareness of gender-based violence, anti-oppression anti-racism, not-for-profit organizations
- Lived expertise with GBV, racialized, LGBTQ2S2l
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate for a term of three (3) years, with a maximum of two consecutive terms
- Attend in-person quarterly Board meetings (schedule to be finalized after the AGM)
- Participate in a minimum of two Committees of the Board
- Attend quarterly Committee meetings via zoom (or in-person if arranged in advance), (schedules to be finalized after the AGM)
- Engage in the activities of the organization including fundraising activities, community education and social justice initiatives.
Women’s Habitat is committed to being an organization that reflects the community and the women we serve. Applications from women with lived experience of gender-based violence, mothers, Indigenous women, racialized women, LGBTQ2S2I+ self-identified women, women with disabilities, and women who live or work in the Etobicoke area are strongly encouraged to apply. We also welcome applications from men who are committed to addressing, preventing and eradicating gender-based violence as well as decolonization and dismantling patriarchy.
Please complete and return this Application (or download and complete the application document below) form along with your resume and cover letter by August 2nd, 2024 to: