About LSPIRG’s Board of Directors

As a non-profit organization, LSPIRG is governed by a board of directors, comprised of both student and community directors. Every year, at our Annual General Meeting, we present our budget and spending in addition to electing new Board Members. Annual General Meetings are open to all members!

Want to be on the Board of Directors?

We encourage folks who meet the following criteria to consider running for election:

  • you’re a WLU student (grad or undergrad) who has not opted out or you have an active LSPIRG Community Membership

  • you have a passion for grassroots social movement work, community building, logistics, policy, governance and oversight

  • you have been involved with LSPIRG or another PIRG previously and want to be involved with LSPIRG on a deeper level

  • you have been involved with grassroots movements like IdleNoMore, No One Is Illegal, Black Lives Matter, international decolonial solidarity movements with Palestine/Congolese/Sudanese/Yemeni/Kashmiri/Haitian or other global south communities,

  • you have approximately 15 hours per month to dedicate to our organization

  • you’re able to commit to the position for at least one year

  • you are committed to intersectional social and environmental justice

Position Description

Purpose: The Board's job is to govern the affairs of LSPIRG within the framework of relevant legislation and standards. The Board of Directors, representative of LSPIRG's membership and the community, is the legally formed entity with the authority and responsibility for:

  • Safeguarding and ensuring the achievement of the organization’s mission and mandate for intersectional and social justice work

  • Establishing the direction and objectives of LSPIRG in collaboration with the rest of the Board

  • Ensuring the overall stability and ensuring the proper and prudent management of the organization

  • Working with marginalized communities on campus in determining strategic direction

  • Accounting to its members and other key partnerships for the programming and direction of the organization

  • Ensuring systematic linkage with other organizations engaged in the pursuit of similar or related objectives, and with the community at large.


    Location: LSPIRG Waterloo - 165 Albert St. 3rd Floor and/or LSPIRG Brantford - 101 Odeon Basement and/or online.


    Key Responsibilities:

  • Monthly meetings and regular correspondence through emails

  • Attendance at all mandatory training sessions

  • Define and/or safeguard the mission, the values framework and operating principles within which it expects the organization to be administered, and to review and update these periodically to ensure that they remain current and responsive to member needs

  • Oversee development and approval of a longer-term organizational plan or strategic priorities and develop or approve annual budgets and operating plans

  • Solicit input from key stakeholders to the strategic priorities of the organization

  • Monitor performance of the organization overall in relation to achievement of its mission, strategic goals and objectives

  • Seek or secure sufficient resources for the organization to adequately finance its operational and capital requirements

  • Account to members and stakeholders and the public for the services of the organization and expenditure of funds

  • Ensure prudent and proper management of the organization’s resources and staff

  • Anticipate, mitigate and manage risks to the organization, its staff, board, and other key stakeholders

  • Establish the general values framework within which the organization’s human resources will be managed and periodically monitor key human resource performance indicators

  • Approve and periodically review personnel policies within which human resources will be managed

  • Approve a mandate (upper financial limits) within which pay and benefits agreements with staff (if there are any) are to be negotiated

  • Regularly review the organization’s services to ensure that they are consistent with the purpose of the organization and that its programs are effective and relevant to community needs

  • Provide continuity/stability for the organization

  • Represent the organization and its programs positively to key stakeholders and the community at large. Be a good ambassador

  • Serve as an advocate for services of good quality

  • Ensure fair arbitration of complaints


    Time Commitment: 15 hours per month for a 1 year term

    Qualifications: Must be prepared to work as part of a team, excellent written and oral communication skills, time management, leadership experience - experience with committees and Roberts’ Rules of Order considered an asset.

    Support: All volunteers receive orientation including anti-oppression training. Board members will also receive orientation and ongoing support from LSPIRG staff.

If you have any questions, please contact info@lspirg.org. If you would like to apply, please click below.