About Us

Put Children First is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding the emotional and psychological well-being of children impacted by parental separation and divorce. The organization supports equal shared parenting, cooperative co-parenting, and research-based advocacy to ensure that children maintain meaningful and healthy relationships with both parents whenever it is safe and appropriate. Through education, outreach, and strategic partnerships, the organization creates initiatives that empower families and promote child centered solutions.

The organization operates through a collaborative leadership model involving directors, board members, and volunteers who work together to provide programs, research, and community support. This leadership structure ensures a strong foundation for developing initiatives that support mental health, academic success, and emotional stability for children. Through ongoing partnerships and public engagement, the organization is committed to creating environments where children thrive.

Number of Opening: 1

Status: Unpaid Volunteer

Commitment: Approximately 5-10 hours per month

Term: 2 years

About the Role

Put Children First is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding the emotional and psychological well-being of children impacted by parental separation and divorce. The organization supports equal shared parenting, cooperative co-parenting, and research-based advocacy to ensure that children maintain meaningful and healthy relationships with both parents whenever it is safe and appropriate. Through education, outreach, and strategic partnerships, the organization creates initiatives that empower families and promote child centered solutions.

The organization operates through a collaborative leadership model involving directors, board members, and volunteers who work together to provide programs, research, and community support. This leadership structure ensures a strong foundation for developing initiatives that support mental health, academic success, and emotional stability for children. Through ongoing partnerships and public engagement, the organization is committed to creating environments where children thrive.

Responsibilities

The Human Resources Manager will:

• Develop and maintain clear human resources policies, procedures, forms, and employment records.
• Support the recruitment, interviewing, selection, reference checking, and onboarding of employees, volunteers, interns, and other approved personnel.
• Prepare job descriptions and help organizational leaders establish clear roles, responsibilities, qualifications, and reporting relationships.
• Coordinate orientation so that new team members understand the organization’s mission, values, policies, safeguarding expectations, and standards of conduct.
• Provide guidance to managers and team leaders on employee relations, performance expectations, attendance, workplace conduct, conflict resolution, discipline, and documentation.
• Help create a workplace culture where employees and volunteers are treated with dignity, concerns can be raised responsibly, and leadership remains accountable.
• Support fair and consistent performance review processes that encourage growth, responsibility, and constructive communication.
• Maintain confidential personnel files and ensure that personal information is collected, stored, accessed, and retained appropriately.
• Monitor applicable employment standards, human rights requirements, occupational health and safety responsibilities, privacy obligations, and other relevant workplace requirements.
• Work with leadership to identify training needs and coordinate appropriate learning and professional development opportunities.
• Support the responsible management of workplace complaints, grievances, investigations, and corrective action.
• Help establish reasonable accommodations and inclusive workplace practices in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Coordinate criminal record checks, vulnerable sector checks, references, screening, and other safeguards required for positions involving children or vulnerable people.
• Assist with succession planning, staff development, workforce planning, and the recruitment of people who can support the organization’s long term growth.
• Prepare human resources reports and provide practical recommendations to organizational leadership.
• Promote open communication while respecting confidentiality and the limits of confidentiality where safety, abuse, harassment, discrimination, or legal reporting responsibilities are involved.

Qualifications

Applicants should possess:

• Postsecondary education in human resources management, business administration, organizational leadership, or a related field.
• Professional human resources experience, including responsibility for recruitment, employee relations, policy development, performance management, and workplace documentation.
• Knowledge of Ontario employment standards, human rights obligations, occupational health and safety requirements, privacy responsibilities, and sound human resources practices.
• Experience working within a nonprofit, charitable, community service, educational, or child and family focused organization would be an asset.
• Experience supporting both employees and volunteers would be valuable.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to prepare clear policies, letters, reports, job descriptions, and confidential records.
• The ability to listen carefully, assess situations fairly, and respond to difficult workplace matters with wisdom, consistency, and respect.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage several responsibilities without losing attention to detail.
• Sound judgment, personal integrity, emotional maturity, and a commitment to confidentiality.
• The ability to work respectfully with people from different cultures, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
• A genuine commitment to the safety and wellbeing of children, young people, families, employees, and volunteers.
• Professional human resources certification or progress toward certification would be considered an asset.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to bridge academic knowledge with real-world impact. Your involvement will help create meaningful learning opportunities for students while supporting research and initiatives that strengthen children, families, and communities across Canada.

Our Commitment

Put Children First is committed to creating a welcoming and respectful environment where every voice is valued. We recognize that each family’s journey is unique, and we believe thoughtful listening, mutual respect, and shared learning are essential to building stronger communities.

Council members are encouraged to contribute openly, knowing their experiences will be treated with dignity, confidentiality where appropriate, and genuine appreciation.

At Put Children First, we believe meaningful change begins with people who are willing to share their knowledge, experience, and compassion in service of others. If you are looking for an opportunity to contribute to a national movement that places children’s wellbeing at the centre of family transition, we would be honoured to hear from you.