About Active Leaders of Love

Active Leaders of Love (ALL) is a community-focused organization committed to removing barriers to economic and social inclusion and empowering communities to lead change.

We’re a growing, volunteer-led organization with an emerging organizational structure that includes established leadership teams, departments, projects, programs, and organizational frameworks. As ALL continues to develop, we are strengthening the systems and leadership capacity needed to operate effectively and sustainably.

The core mandate is to align, integrate, execute, strengthen, and scale. The COO should operate independently within their mandate, reducing the need for CEO involvement in routine departmental and operational matters.

The Opportunity

The COO will serve as the CEO’s primary organizational and operational partner, helping translate ALL’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities into coordinated execution. The COO will ensure that departments, leaders, programs, projects, and organizational systems operate cohesively while identifying and addressing gaps that may affect organizational effectiveness.

The successful candidate must be an experienced organizational leader who can lead across functions, work effectively with subject-matter experts, identify organizational gaps, strengthen systems, develop leaders, and keep the organization’s work grounded in its mission.

Key Responsibilities

- Organizational Leadership & Integration

- Serve as a senior member of ALL’s executive leadership team and a key strategic partner to the CEO.
- Develop a holistic understanding of ALL’s mission, vision, values, strategy, structure, and organizational priorities.
- Ensure that departments and leadership teams understand how their work contributes to ALL’s broader objectives.
- Promote cross-functional collaboration and reduce organizational silos.
- Identify gaps, duplication, bottlenecks, and areas of misalignment across the organization.
- Help establish clear organizational rhythms for planning, communication, decision-making, accountability, and follow-through.
- Support the organization in moving from founder-dependent decision-making toward distributed leadership and greater departmental ownership.

- Strategy-to-Execution





- Work with the CEO and senior leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable organizational plans.
- Monitor progress against key organizational priorities and identify barriers to execution.
- Ensure that initiatives, projects, and programs remain aligned with ALL’s mission and strategic direction.
- Provide recommendations to the CEO regarding organizational priorities, capacity, risks, and opportunities.

3. Departmental Leadership & Accountability

- Provide leadership, coordination, and support to department and functional leaders.
- Establish clear expectations for leadership accountability, communication, and follow-through.
- Support department leaders in understanding their authority, taking ownership of their areas, identifying gaps, and developing solutions independently.
- Facilitate collaboration between departments when responsibilities or initiatives overlap.
- Identify when an issue should be resolved at the departmental level versus escalated to executive leadership.

- Operational Systems & Organizational Effectiveness

- Assess existing organizational systems, workflows, and processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Strengthen and develop practical systems, processes, workflows, and accountability mechanisms as needed.
- Promote efficient and sustainable use of organizational resources.
- Help establish an organizational culture of continuous improvement.

- Project & Program Alignment

- Provide executive-level oversight of the organization’s project and program ecosystem.
- Ensure projects and programs are aligned with ALL’s strategic priorities and organizational capacity.
- Work collaboratively with the Executive Director, Project Operations and Program Director to address organizational-level barriers to implementation.
- Ensure project and program leadership has appropriate autonomy while maintaining organizational accountability.

- Mission,



Values & Organizational Culture

- Keep ALL’s mission, vision, and values central to organizational decision-making.
- Help ensure that organizational growth does not compromise ALL’s purpose or community-centered approach.
- Model leadership that reflects ALL’s values.
- Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, initiative, respect, and continuous improvement.

- Leadership Development

- Help strengthen the capacity and confidence of ALL’s department and functional leaders.
- Identify leadership-development needs and recommend appropriate support, training, mentoring, or resources.

- Executive Communication & Reporting

- Maintain regular communication with the CEO regarding organizational performance, priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- Provide the CEO with concise updates and recommendations.
- Help establish appropriate reporting mechanisms for departments, projects, and organizational priorities.
- Ensure that significant organizational risks or issues are identified and escalated appropriately.

What We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate will be:

- Mission-driven and deeply motivated by social impact.
- Strategic, systems-oriented, and able to see the organization as a whole.
- Comfortable leading across disciplines and working with subject-matter experts.
- Strong at translating strategy into action and identifying practical solutions to organizational challenges.
- Able to establish accountability while maintaining a collaborative, empowering culture.
- Comfortable operating in a startup environment with ambiguity and evolving priorities.
- Strong in communication, relationship-building, and executive judgment.
- Comfortable working with volunteers and volunteer leaders.
- Adaptable and committed to continuous organizational improvement.

Why Join ALL?

This is an prospect to play a meaningful role in shaping the organizational infrastructure of a growing social-impact organization. Working directly with executive leadership, the COO will help transform ALL’s established foundation into a cohesive, accountable, and sustainable organization where mission, people, strategy, programs, projects, and systems work together to create meaningful community impact.

📌 Chief Operating Officer (Volunteer) (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 All
📍 Greater Toronto Area