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Program Manager

Position Summary

The Program Manager is a key international programs role responsible for supporting high-quality program management, grant management, institutional donor compliance, and country office coordination across Operation Eyesight’s international portfolio. Based in Canada, the role works closely with country offices, partners, the Director of International Programs, finance, MEAL, institutional funding, advancement, and technical colleagues to ensure projects are well designed, properly budgeted, effectively implemented, monitored, forecasted, reported, and closed in line with donor requirements and organizational standards.

This position supports the full project cycle, from donor opportunity tracking, proposal development, theories of change, logframes, performance measurement frameworks, budgets, workplans, and donor submissions through project start-up, implementation oversight, financial monitoring, risk management, adaptive management, reporting, and close-out. The Program Manager helps ensure that projects funded by Global Affairs Canada and other institutional donors are managed with strong results-based management, clear accountabilities, realistic budgets, accurate forecasts, sound documentation, and consistent communication between Canada and country offices.

The Program Manager will strengthen OE’s ability to manage a credible, donor-ready, and impact-focused international program portfolio by developing and maintaining practical systems, tools, templates, calendars, trackers, budget monitoring processes, reporting routines, and coordination mechanisms that support country offices and partners. The role contributes directly to donor credibility, financial stewardship, implementation quality, organizational learning, and sustainable eye health impact.

Key Responsibilities

A. Institutional Funding, Proposal Development and Donor Positioning

· Support the identification, tracking, assessment, and prioritization of institutional funding opportunities, including Global Affairs Canada, the European Union, FCDO, UN agencies, multilateral organizations, foundations, and other bilateral or institutional donors.

· Coordinate proposal development processes with clear timelines, roles, responsibilities, document control, internal review steps, and decision points for proposals developed in Canada and by country offices.

· Contribute to concept notes, full proposals, theories of change, logic models, logframes, performance measurement frameworks, workplans, risk matrices, budgets, budget narratives, implementation plans, and supporting annexes.

· Ensure proposals are grounded in strong program logic, realistic implementation capacity, credible partner roles, accurate country office inputs, feasible budgets, and donor-specific requirements.

· Work with finance, MEAL, country offices, partners, and technical colleagues to ensure activities, staffing, monitoring systems, gender equality commitments, evaluation requirements, procurement needs, and operational costs are fully reflected in budgets and implementation plans.

· Maintain proposal calendars, donor opportunity trackers, pipeline tools, records of submissions, donor correspondence, and lessons learned from proposal processes.

B. GAC, RBM, Logframes and Results-Based Project Design

· Provide hands-on support to ensure Global Affairs Canada proposals, reports, and project management systems are aligned with GAC results-based management expectations, including theories of change, logic models, outcome and output statements, indicators, baselines, targets, assumptions, risks, and performance measurement frameworks.

· Coordinate the development and review of logframes and results frameworks to ensure clear results chains, realistic activities, measurable outputs, credible outcomes, appropriate indicators, and alignment between narrative, budget, workplan, MEAL plan, and reporting requirements.

· Work with the Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality to ensure monitoring systems, data collection plans, reporting templates, and evaluation plans are practical for country offices, partners, health facilities, community teams, and Ministries of Health where relevant.

· Support the integration of gender equality, disability inclusion, safeguarding, environmental considerations, localization, sustainability, and risk mitigation into project design and donor documentation.

· Review project design documents to identify inconsistencies, gaps, unrealistic assumptions, budget omissions, weak implementation arrangements, unclear roles, or reporting risks before submission or approval.

· Ensure approved project documents, donor agreements, logframes, PMFs, budgets, workplans, reporting schedules, and compliance obligations are properly filed, communicated, and translated into implementation tools after award.

C. Country Office Project Oversight and Implementation Management

· Provide day-to-day management support and oversight for assigned institutional donor-funded projects implemented by OE country offices, local partners, hospitals, community structures, schools, and other implementation stakeholders.

· Coordinate project start-up processes, including inception planning, internal kick-off meetings, partner orientation, workplan finalization, budget phasing, reporting calendars, procurement planning, risk registers, communications protocols, and donor compliance briefings.

· Monitor implementation progress against approved workplans, budgets, deliverables, indicators, contractual obligations, and donor reporting schedules.

· Work closely with country offices to identify implementation delays, budget variances, staffing gaps, procurement challenges, partner performance issues, safeguarding concerns, quality risks, or donor compliance issues, and support timely corrective action.

· Facilitate regular project review meetings with country offices, finance, MEAL, advancement, and technical colleagues to assess progress, address bottlenecks, update forecasts, review risks, and agree follow-up actions.

· Support country offices to prepare realistic annual plans, quarterly plans, monthly implementation updates, procurement plans, travel plans, training plans, partner plans, and project close-out plans.

D. Budget Monitoring, Forecasting and Financial Coordination

· Work closely with finance and country offices to monitor project budgets, monthly expenditure, burn rates, forecasts, budget variances, cost allocations, donor restrictions, match requirements where applicable, and overall financial performance.

· Review budget versus actual reports with finance and country offices, identify underspending or overspending risks, and support corrective action plans that are realistic and documented.

· Support the preparation and review of project forecasts, cash flow requests, budget reforecasts, donor budget revisions, no-cost extension requests, and budget realignment justifications.

· Ensure country offices understand approved budget lines, eligible costs, procurement requirements, financial documentation standards, reporting timelines, and donor approval thresholds.

· Coordinate with finance to ensure narrative reports and financial reports tell one consistent story and that reported activities, results, expenditure, forecasts, and variances are aligned.

· Support the development of practical budget monitoring tools, monthly review templates, budget notes, transaction explanation formats, and country office guidance for donor-funded projects.

E. Donor Compliance, Grant Management and Risk Management

· Maintain a clear understanding of donor agreements, contribution agreements, grant conditions, reporting schedules, procurement rules, branding and visibility requirements, environmental and gender commitments, safeguarding expectations, audit requirements, and close-out obligations.

· Develop and maintain grant management tools, compliance checklists, project filing structures, reporting calendars, donor approval trackers, risk registers, and action trackers for assigned projects.

· Coordinate internal review and quality assurance of donor reports, ensuring narrative content is evidence-based, financially consistent, results-focused, and aligned with approved logframes, PMFs, workplans, budgets, and donor requirements.

· Support timely preparation of donor amendments, budget revisions, extension requests, implementation updates, management responses, and other donor communications as required.

· Ensure partner agreements, scopes of work, workplans, reporting obligations, budget responsibilities, and deliverables are clear, realistic, monitored, and documented.

· Contribute to audit readiness by ensuring project records, approvals, reports, budgets, forecasts, procurement documentation, partner files, and decision records are complete and accessible.

F. Reporting, Quality Assurance and Organizational Learning

· Coordinate the preparation, review, consolidation, and submission of high-quality donor reports, internal management updates, country office reports, project dashboards, briefing notes, and Board or senior management inputs as required.

· Review project, partner, and country office reports to ensure they are accurate, coherent, evidence-based, results-focused, financially aligned, and written to a standard suitable for institutional donors.

· Work with the Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality to ensure reported results are supported by credible data, indicator tracking, verification processes, success stories, case studies, lessons learned, and analysis of progress against expected outcomes.

· Ensure reports explain activities completed, progress toward results, implementation challenges, adaptive management decisions, budget implications, risk mitigation, and sustainability considerations.

· Contribute to standard reporting templates, country office update formats, monthly project review formats, lessons learned tools, and project close-out templates.

· Support communications, advancement, and donor stewardship teams with verified project information, approved results language, impact summaries, implementation updates, and evidence for external use.

G. Country Office, Partner and Cross-Functional Coordination

· Act as a key coordination point between OE Canada and country offices for assigned projects, ensuring timely communication, clear follow-up, practical problem solving, and consistent understanding of donor and organizational requirements.

· Collaborate closely with country directors, program staff, finance staff, MEAL colleagues, partners, consultants, technical advisors, advancement, communications, and institutional funding colleagues.

· Support country offices and partners to strengthen project management practices, donor compliance, budget monitoring, forecasting, reporting, documentation, and adaptive management.

· Facilitate regular cross-functional coordination meetings and ensure decisions, risks, responsibilities, and deadlines are clearly documented and followed up.

· Support partner engagement, consortium coordination, consultant management, and external stakeholder communication where relevant.

· Represent OE in donor, partner, consortium, working group, or sector discussions as appropriate and in coordination with senior leadership.

H. Systems, Tools, Templates and Process Improvement

· Develop and maintain practical systems and tools for project cycle management, including project trackers, workplan templates, budget monitoring tools, forecasting templates, donor reporting calendars, risk registers, grant files, compliance checklists, and action trackers.

· Identify gaps in current program management processes and recommend simple, usable improvements that strengthen consistency, accountability, quality, and coordination across OE Canada and country offices.

· Support the standardization of project start-up, implementation monitoring, budget review, reporting, partner management, risk management, and project close-out processes.

· Contribute to improved internal documentation, file management, handover notes, institutional memory, and audit readiness for donor-funded projects.

· Support training, coaching, and capacity strengthening for country office staff and partners on project management, donor compliance, budget monitoring, forecasting, reporting, and documentation.

· Promote fit-for-purpose tools that reduce confusion, avoid duplication, and help country offices manage projects effectively without unnecessary administrative burden.

Qualifications and Experience

· Bachelor’s degree in international development, public health, global health, business administration, project management, social sciences, or a related field. A master’s degree or relevant professional certification is considered an asset.

· Minimum 5 to 7 years of progressively responsible experience in international development, NGO program management, institutional donor project management, grant management, or a related role.

· Demonstrated experience managing or supporting multi-country programs implemented through country offices, local partners, health systems, community structures, or Ministries of Health.

· Strong experience with Global Affairs Canada requirements, including results-based management, theories of change, logic models, PMFs, gender equality integration, budgets, reporting, compliance, contribution agreements, and donor communication.

· Experience with other institutional donors such as the European Union, FCDO, UN agencies, multilateral organizations, foundations, and other bilateral donors.

· Strong understanding of project cycle management, including project design, start-up, implementation planning, budget monitoring, forecasting, risk management, reporting, adaptive management, and close-out.

· Demonstrated experience developing or reviewing concept notes, proposals, logframes, workplans, budgets, budget narratives, donor reports, risk matrices, and implementation plans.

· Strong budget management skills, including the ability to review budget versus actual reports, monitor burn rates, prepare forecasts, identify variances, and work with finance teams on corrective action.

· Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, donor-ready reports, proposal sections, briefing notes, meeting records, and management updates.

· Experience strengthening systems, tools, templates, trackers, reporting processes, and documentation practices for international programs.

· Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and related collaboration or project tracking tools.

· Knowledge of eye health, public health, health systems strengthening, disability inclusion, community health, education, or international health programming is considered a strong asset.

Core Competencies

· Program and grant management expertise, with the ability to connect design, implementation, budgets, compliance, reporting, and results.

· GAC and institutional donor fluency, including practical understanding of RBM, logframes, PMFs, budgets, contribution agreements, reporting, and donor compliance.

· International operational judgement, grounded in experience working with country offices, partners, health systems, community-level implementation, and cross-cultural teams.

· Budget monitoring and forecasting discipline, with the ability to identify financial risks early and work constructively with finance and country teams to resolve them.

· Systems thinking and practical process improvement, including the ability to improve tools and workflows without creating unnecessary complexity for staff or partners.

· Capacity building and service orientation, with the ability to support country offices and partners while maintaining strong quality and compliance standards.

· Clear communication, diplomacy, discretion, and accountability in working with internal teams, partners, donors, and senior leadership.

Working Conditions and Job Requirements

· Canada-based role, with hybrid or remote work arrangements depending on organizational needs.

· Domestic and international travel may be required to support country offices, partners, donors, project monitoring, training, proposal development, and implementation oversight.

· Ability to work across multiple time zones and with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders in different countries.

· Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to support international operations, donor deadlines, urgent implementation issues, reporting, or proposal development.

· Ability to manage periods of high workload during proposal submissions, donor reporting cycles, audits, project start-up, and project close-out.

· Acts as an ambassador of Operation Eyesight Canada and operates effectively in multicultural, multi-country, and cross-functional settings.

Values

The Program Manager is expected to model Operation Eyesight’s values in all aspects of program management, country office support, donor accountability, partner collaboration, and international operations:

· Equity

· Innovation

· Citizenship

· Compassion

· Excellence

Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality

Position Summary

The Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality is an organization-wide technical role responsible for strengthening Operation Eyesight Canada’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, impact measurement, and gender equality practice across international programs. Based in Canada, the Advisor supports OE Canada, Country Offices, local partners, health facilities, community structures, and, where relevant, Ministries of Health to design, monitor, evaluate, report on, and learn from programs that strengthen sustainable eye health systems.

The role supports the full project cycle, from strategy and proposal design through implementation, donor reporting, evaluation, organizational learning, and annual impact reporting. The Advisor leads the development and consistent use of practical MEAL systems, standard indicators, data quality processes, templates, tools, dashboards, reporting calendars, and learning products so that OE has credible, comparable, timely, and decision-useful evidence of results across countries, projects, partners, and programs.

This position is also central to OE’s gender equality and inclusion work. It requires strong experience in gender analysis, gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming, FIAP-aligned proposal design for Global Affairs Canada, sex-, age-, disability-, and contextually relevant disaggregated data, safeguarding linkages, partner capacity strengthening, and practical approaches that help teams use evidence to improve program quality and impact.

The Advisor will work closely with program, country office, institutional funding, finance, advancement, communications, and leadership colleagues to ensure that proposals, logframes, PMFs, donor reports, annual impact reporting, learning products, and public communications are grounded in verified evidence and aligned with donor expectations.

Key Responsibilities

A. Organizational MEAL, Impact and Data Systems

· Lead the development, strengthening, and roll-out of OE’s organizational MEAL architecture, including standard indicators, data collection tools, reporting templates, dashboards, data quality protocols, and learning processes across international programs.

· Develop and maintain practical systems to capture project, country, partner, and organizational impact data, ensuring OE can demonstrate results to donors, boards, staff, partners, communities, and the public.

· Create and maintain standard templates and guidance for needs assessments, baselines, routine monitoring, outcome monitoring, beneficiary feedback, post-training follow-up, evaluation terms of reference, learning reviews, and annual results reporting.

· Support the use of Management Information Systems and other digital or paper-based data systems in Country Offices, ensuring that data collection approaches are realistic for local teams, partners, health facilities, and community-level actors.

· Strengthen data governance, ethical data collection, data protection, data verification, and quality assurance processes across OE-supported programs.

· Analyze quantitative and qualitative data and translate evidence into clear findings, lessons, recommendations, and decision-making inputs for program teams, senior management, the Board, donors, and communications colleagues.

B. Proposal Design, Logframes and Donor Results Frameworks

· Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for theories of change, logic models, logframes, performance measurement frameworks, results frameworks, indicators, baselines, targets, data sources, assumptions, and risk monitoring for proposals developed in Canada and by Country Offices.

· Ensure proposals are designed with strong results logic, clear outcome pathways, realistic indicators, credible monitoring approaches, and gender-responsive measurement strategies.

· Support proposal teams to meet Global Affairs Canada requirements for results-based management, PMFs, FIAP-aligned gender integration, and donor-specific reporting expectations.

· Support proposal development for other institutional donors such as the European Union, FCDO, UN agencies, foundations, and other bilateral or multilateral donors, adapting MEAL and gender sections to donor-specific formats and expectations.

· Work closely with program, finance, Country Office, and institutional funding colleagues to ensure MEAL activities, evaluations, gender activities, data systems, and learning processes are adequately reflected in workplans and budgets.

C. Country Office, Partner and Ministry of Health Capacity Strengthening

· Provide technical support, coaching, and training to Country Office staff, local partners, health facilities, and, where relevant, Ministries of Health on MEAL systems, data collection, reporting, gender equality integration, and use of evidence for decision-making.

· Develop practical tools and templates that can be used by local partners, hospitals, community health workers, outreach teams, schools, and public health actors to monitor eye health programming and system strengthening results.

· Support Country Offices to establish clear roles, responsibilities, timelines, and reporting flows for project-level and country-level data collection, verification, analysis, and use.

· Build staff and partner capacity in results-based management, indicator tracking, gender-responsive monitoring, ethical data collection, qualitative methods, data visualization, and donor reporting.

· Facilitate cross-country learning and exchange on effective approaches, implementation challenges, results, gender integration, and evidence-based program improvement.

D. Gender Equality, Inclusion and FIAP-Aligned Programming

· Lead the development, implementation, and periodic review of OE’s gender equality approach and support integration of gender equality into organizational strategies, country strategies, project designs, monitoring systems, reporting, and learning products.

· Conduct or support gender analyses, intersectional analyses, gender equality strategies, and gender-responsive program design for proposals and ongoing programs.

· Ensure Global Affairs Canada proposals and reports reflect strong FIAP-aligned gender analysis, credible gender equality outcomes, practical gender-responsive activities, measurable indicators, and realistic strategies for addressing barriers faced by women, girls, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.

· Strengthen the collection, analysis, and use of sex-, age-, disability-, and other contextually relevant disaggregated data to inform program design, adaptive management, reporting, advocacy, and communications.

· Develop tools and guidance for gender-sensitive and gender-transformative monitoring, reporting, staff training, partner capacity building, and learning.

· Support safeguarding, protection, accountability, and inclusive participation approaches within programming, in collaboration with relevant OE staff and partners.

E. Reporting, Annual Impact and Organizational Learning

· Review project, donor, partner, and Country Office reports to ensure results are accurate, evidence-based, gender-responsive, and aligned with approved logframes, PMFs, workplans, budgets, and donor requirements.

· Work closely with the Program Manager, Director of International Programs, Country Offices, and institutional funding colleagues to strengthen the quality, consistency, and timeliness of donor reports and internal program updates.

· Lead the annual organizational impact data collection and verification process, ensuring OE has credible and consolidated results for annual reports, Board reporting, public communications, donor stewardship, fundraising, and institutional positioning.

· Compile, maintain, and analyze country strategy data, project impact data, gender equality data, training data, service delivery data, partner data, and other organizational results information needed for strategic decision-making.

· Coordinate evaluations, learning reviews, after-action reviews, reflection sessions, and documentation of lessons learned, ensuring findings are translated into practical improvements in program design and implementation.

· Support impact storytelling by providing verified data, results narratives, lessons learned, and evidence that can be used by advancement, communications, fundraising, and donor engagement teams.

F. Collaboration, Systems and Continuous Improvement

· Collaborate closely with Country Offices, program staff, finance teams, institutional funding staff, advancement and communications teams, consultants, evaluators, partners, and external stakeholders.

· Support donor engagement by preparing evidence, impact summaries, MEAL inputs, gender equality inputs, and results documentation for institutional funding opportunities and donor reporting.

· Maintain OE’s organizational MEAL tools, indicator reference sheets, data collection templates, reporting calendars, report trackers, evaluation plans, and documentation systems.

· Support budgeting and planning for MEAL activities, evaluations, baselines, assessments, digital data systems, gender analyses, training, and learning events.

· Develop scopes of work and terms of reference for consultants, evaluators, researchers, and technical service providers, and monitor deliverables where applicable.

· Contribute to OE’s organizational strategy, country strategies, program models, and institutional funding strategy by ensuring decisions are grounded in evidence, gender analysis, and lessons from implementation.

Qualifications and Experience

· Bachelor’s degree in international development, public health, social sciences, gender studies, evaluation, statistics, epidemiology, or a related field. A Master’s degree is strongly preferred.

· Minimum 7 to 10 years of progressive experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, impact measurement, and gender equality within international development, public health, global health, or humanitarian programming.

· Demonstrated experience working with Canadian NGOs or international NGOs, preferably with multi-country programs and Country Office structures.

· Direct experience with Global Affairs Canada proposal development, results-based management, logic models, performance measurement frameworks, reporting requirements, and FIAP-aligned gender equality integration is strongly preferred.

· Experience with other institutional donors such as the European Union, FCDO, USAID, UN agencies, foundations, and other bilateral or multilateral donors.

· Strong experience developing theories of change, logical frameworks, results frameworks, indicators, baseline and endline tools, data collection instruments, evaluation frameworks, reporting templates, and learning products.

· Strong understanding of gender equality, women’s empowerment, intersectional analysis, disability inclusion, safeguarding, accountability, and gender-responsive or gender-transformative programming.

· Experience developing organizational or project-level gender strategies, conducting gender analyses, training staff and partners, and integrating gender equality into proposals, reports, monitoring systems, and organizational strategies.

· Experience strengthening data systems, data quality assurance, ethical data collection, data protection, data verification, partner reporting processes, and practical use of data for program management.

· Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, including the ability to interpret complex data and present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

· Advanced Excel skills and experience with data visualization, dashboards, digital data collection systems, and Management Information Systems are strong assets.

· Experience working with Country Offices, local partners, health systems, community-based programming, or Ministries of Health is strongly preferred.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality donor reports, annual impact content, learning briefs, training materials, and proposal sections.

· Strong facilitation, training, mentoring, and capacity-building skills across cultures, disciplines, and levels of technical knowledge.

· High level of organization, attention to detail, sound judgement, diplomacy, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Core Competencies

· MEAL and impact leadership, with the ability to build practical systems that improve program quality, reporting, learning, accountability, and organizational credibility.

· Results-based management expertise, including strong knowledge of theories of change, logframes, PMFs, indicators, baselines, targets, data sources, assumptions, and donor reporting requirements.

· Gender equality and inclusion expertise, with practical ability to integrate gender analysis, FIAP-aligned design, disability inclusion, safeguarding, and disaggregated data into programs and proposals.

· Institutional donor orientation, with the ability to translate GAC and other donor expectations into usable tools, templates, budgets, reports, and evidence products.

· International operational judgement, grounded in experience with Country Offices, partners, local systems, public health actors, and cross-cultural working relationships.

· Capacity building and facilitation, with the ability to train, coach, and support staff and partners while keeping systems clear, realistic, and useful.

· Analytical communication, with the ability to turn data into clear findings, recommendations, donor narratives, impact summaries, and decision-making inputs.

· Collaboration and service orientation, with the ability to work effectively across program, finance, institutional funding, communications, advancement, leadership, and country teams.

· Integrity, accountability, and respect for ethical data practice, community accountability, equity, inclusion, safeguarding, and evidence-based program improvement.

Working Conditions and Job Requirements

· Canada-based role, with hybrid or remote work arrangements depending on organizational needs.

· Prolonged periods of sitting and computer-based work.

· Domestic and international travel may be required to support Country Offices, partners, donors, evaluations, training, and program monitoring.

· Ability to work across multiple time zones and with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders in different countries.

· Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to support international operations, proposal deadlines, donor reporting, evaluations, or urgent organizational needs.

· Acts as an ambassador of Operation Eyesight Canada and operates effectively in multicultural, multi-country, and cross-functional settings.

Values

The Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality is expected to model Operation Eyesight’s values in all aspects of technical leadership, internal collaboration, donor accountability, gender equality, evidence use, and international operations:

· Equity

· Innovation

· Citizenship

· Compassion

· Excellenc

Operation Eyesight Canada Board
Director (Volunteer)

Operation Eyesight Canada is currently seeking applications for volunteer Board Director positions. Operation Eyesight is a Calgary-based international development organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable vision loss in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Volunteer members of the Board of Directors provide strategic leadership and governance oversight for the organization. Board members also help cultivate and maintain key relationships with stakeholders that support Operation Eyesight’s mission and vision.

We invite applications from individuals with expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas:

Accounting / Finance
People, Culture & Change Management
Governance
Ideal candidates will:
a) have experience in the not-for-profit sector or have served as senior executives in the private sector; and
b) share Operation Eyesight’s core values of equity, innovation, global citizenship, compassion, and excellence.

Board Directors are elected to two-year terms. The Board meets virtually eight times per year for approximately two hours per meeting, and one or two times annually in person. Directors are also expected to participate in standing committees and/or working groups.

Operation Eyesight is committed to fostering a culture of diversity, inclusion, and gender equity, both within the Board and throughout the organization.

We are recruiting FOUR new directors. Priority consideration will be given to those who have one or more of the following:

CPA Designation.
Two (2) positions to join the Board and the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee. Priority will be given to candidates holding a CPA designation.
One (1) position to join the Board and provide professional expertise in People, Culture & Change Management.
One (1) position to join the Board and the Governance & Nominations Committee. This role is intended for someone with prior experience serving on not-for-profit boards and a strong interest in governance and oversight rather than operational management.
To learn more about Operation Eyesight’s mission to prevent blindness and restore sight, visit operationeyesight.com

How to Apply:

Interested applicants are invited to submit their application by contacting:
hr@operationeyesight.com

Applications will be forwarded to the Chair of the Governance & Nominations Committee.

Please include:

Your contact information
A cover letter outlining your interest in the position and the skills and experience you would bring to the Board
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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