Executive Director

Mecanicabrasil; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Palestine Impact Collective in Canada is seeking a full-time Executive Director to guide strategic priorities and expand impact in the social justice and decolonization space. The role requires strong leadership, fundraising capability, and ability to work with volunteers.

Based in the Greater Toronto Area, the ED will oversee campaigns, governance and stakeholder engagement, while maintaining flexible hybrid work arrangements with meetings across lunch hours, evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to Palestinian liberation and decolonization.
• Experience in Canadian nonprofit, charitable, foundation, and/or social finance sectors is an asset.
• Ability to work independently and effectively remotely while leading a distributed team.
• Strong organizational and project-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic priorities and direct PIC's growth and impact.
• Build and maintain partnerships with philanthropic and social impact groups.
• Lead fundraising initiatives to sustain programs.
• Coordinate campaigns and initiatives including divestment and media bias.
• Oversee administration, events, communications, and outreach.

Skills

Leadership

Fundraising

Strategic Planning

Relationship Building

Public Speaking

Volunteer Management

Communication

Job description

Palestine Impact Collective aims to create safety within the social impact sector, including philanthropic foundations, charitable organizations, and the social finance sector, to advance decolonial dialogue and action for Palestine, and to shift narratives and capital away from supporting colonial projects globally.

Overview of Position

After three years of existence, Palestine Impact Collective (PIC) is now seeking to hire a full time Executive Director who can help the Collective further realize its potential and increase its impact on the sector and contribute to the global movement for decolonization, justice and liberation. The Executive Director will do so by helping to set PIC’s strategic priorities and strategic directions.

This position will require someone who is a self-starter and has a demonstrated commitment to PIC’s statement of principles and code of conduct.

For this role, we are searching for candidates with significant leadership experience organizing, coordinating and demonstrating commitment to decolonization and social justice causes. This role will be hybrid in nature and a preference is for someone who is based in the Greater Toronto Area. Members of the collective are volunteers and many of the meetings will take place during lunch hour, evenings and some weekends. This position requires flexible hours to accommodate our membership.

• Strategy and Growth: Setting and acting on strategic priorities for PIC so as to support its growth, impact and visibility/brand.
• Relationship Building and Public Facing: Strong focus on relationship and partnership building with other groups in the philanthropic and social impact sectors and representing PIC publicly at events and in different forums.
• Fundraising: Fundraising from outside and from within the sector in accordance with PIC’s principles and values to ensure its sustainability.
• Supporting Circles, Campaigns and Members: Support different circles and working groups within PIC by supporting the creation of work plans, monitoring progress, undertaking research, offering guidance, supporting Collective members and supporting the successful launch of campaigns. This includes the coordination and leadership of PIC’s different campaigns and initiatives, including divestment, investment, community safety and media bias.
• Administration, Events and Membership: Overseeing all administrative aspects of the Collective, including communications, engaging members, event planning and coordination, and recruitment and outreach to new members.

Candidates Should Have

• Demonstrated commitment towards supporting Palestinian liberation and decolonization and a track record centring Palestinian and Indigenous voices.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion and anti-oppression. Ability to forge relationships with equity seeking groups on Turtle Island. Strong understanding of intersectional liberatory politics.
• Demonstrated knowledge or experience working in the Canadian non profit, charitable, foundation, and/or social finance sector is an asset.
• Experience in a leadership role within a growing non profit or community organization, paid or unpaid.
• Ability to work independently and effectively remotely, as well as collaborate with people across age, ethno-racial, gender and sectoral differences.
• Strong sense of responsibility and commitment to meeting self set deadlines.
• Strong proactivity and ability to set and manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Comfort with public speaking and strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Adaptability with different online platforms and software usage; experience with doing website updates is an asset.
• Be very organized and able to proactively identify needs and provide resources for Collective members.
• Strong written and oral communications in English. Functionality in French and Arabic are also strong assets.

Employment Equity

Palestine Impact Collective believes our work is stronger when it draws from the experience, knowledge and wisdom of people who face systemic barriers. People in the Palestinian diaspora, Indigenous peoples and members from other equity denied communities are encouraged to apply and self-identify in the cover letter.

This is a full time role with benefits and a salary range between $70,000-$90,000 commensurate with experience.

We strongly encourage candidates who can draw from both their professional networks as well as activism and organizing experiences in this role. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting from September 20th 2026.

Start Date

We are ideally looking for the candidate to start in October 2026 (flexible).