Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Hybrid
ENFHS Board of Directors Volunteer Position, Hybrid, 2-Year Term Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society properties (various), Metro Vancouver We are excited to invite a dedicated individual to serve on Entre Nous Femmes Housi…
Skills: Governance, Strategic Planning, Fiscal Oversight, Board Management, Financial Reporting
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Hybrid
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Provide governance, monitoring, and strategic oversight to ensure the society achieves its mission of creating affordable housing. Responsibilities include managing the CEO, approving budgets, and ensuring fiscal accountability and legal compliance.
Seeking dedicated individuals from equity-deserving groups in Metro Vancouver with a commitment to social equity. Preferred experience includes accounting, law, finance, or non-profit housing development.
ENFHS Board of Directors
Volunteer Position, Hybrid, 2-Year Term
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society properties (various), Metro Vancouver
We are excited to invite a dedicated individual to serve on Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society's (ENFHS) Board of Directors, who shares our commitment to enhancing people's lives by creating affordable, safe, and secure housing communities in Metro Vancouver.
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society (ENFHS) is a charitable not-for-profit housing organization that began over 40 years ago by three single mothers looking to create more affordable housing for families like theirs. As one of Canada's first women-led charitable housing organizations, we are deeply committed to social equity and enhancing people's lives, particularly those of women, single-parent families and other equity-deserving groups, by creating communities that provide affordable, safe, and secure housing.
True to our namesake, we take a women-first, intersectional approach to serving those most in need. We apply three lenses of priority to our community of focus: Women and Gender-Diverse People, Single-Parent Families and Indigenous Peoples and other Equity-Deserving Groups.
We currently serve over 1200 low-income women, children, single-parent families, seniors, and people with disabilities across over 500 affordable rental homes in 13 properties in Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Port Moody, Vancouver and Surrey. We have ambitious plans to more than double our impact over the next five years to meet the region's critical demand for affordable housing.
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society respectfully acknowledges that we work and provide affordable homes on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the təməxʷ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən (Kwantlen), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), Tah-tu-lo (Semiahmoo), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) and the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful to live and work on these lands.
We are committed to working in a good way with Indigenous peoples and organizations through anti-racist and anti-colonial actions, continued commitments to reconciliation, and working in solidarity and partnership with Indigenous Peoples to ensure everyone has a safe and secure place to call home.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment that reflects our community, where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We encourage women and gender-diverse individuals, people of colour, Indigenous and other equity-deserving groups and those with lived experience in social housing and single-family households to apply. ENFHS is proud to be a Certified Living Wage Employer by The Living Wage for Families Campaign.
For more details about ENFHS, please go to our website: enfhs.ca
THE OPPORTUNITY
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society (ENFHS) is seeking a dedicated individual who shares our commitment to enhancing people's lives by creating affordable, safe, and secure housing communities in Metro Vancouver to serve on the ENFHS Board of Directors as a volunteer for a two-year term.
The ENFHS Board of Directors ("Board") is an eleven (11) member volunteer board that is responsible for the governance, monitoring and oversight of Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society and SPAHS 1997 (a non-profit entity owned by ENFHS), ensuring that ENFHS is:
KEY EXPECTATIONS
Board members are expected to commit approximately 6-10 hours a month to Board business (including meeting preparation, meeting time, and committee meeting time).
The Board meets virtually nine times yearly (January, February, April, May, June, July, September, October, and November). There are at least two, in-person meetings a year. There are five Board Committees: Executive Committee, Development Committee, Finance & Audit Committee, Governance Committee and Nominating Committee.
Board members are expected to:
There is no financial compensation for this volunteer position. However, Board members are reimbursed for meals during virtual Board meetings and invited to an annual AGM dinner, summer Board Social, housing conferences and other events.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCE
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society is committed to the 50-30 Challenge, which aims to increase the representation and inclusion of diverse groups within our workplace, senior leadership, and Board of Directors. For 2025, the Board is seeking candidates residing in the Metro Vancouver region to fill vacant board positions, and who self-identifies as a member of one or more of the following groups:
While not a requirement, the Board is seeking candidates with the following experience:
APPLICATION PROCESS
If you are excited about this opportunity to volunteer with Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society on our Board of Directors, we invite you to submit your application by Monday, September 11, 2026.
A home for everyone
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society (ENFHS) is a charitable not-for-profit housing organization committed to enhancing people’s lives by creating communities that provide affordable, safe and secure housing. We manage thirteen properties and provide over 500 affordable rental homes for women, families, seniors and people with disabilities in Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Port Moody, Vancouver and Surrey. We are excited to open new buildings by 2027, where we will have 500 new affordable homes available for individuals and families in Port Moody and Vancouver. Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society was founded in 1984 by three women who wanted to make life better for themselves and other single mothers and their children. “Entre Nous Femmes” in translation is “Amongst us Women,” which speaks not to the individual but about “us together” in the community – a philosophy we still follow today. Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society respectfully acknowledges that we do our work on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Specifically, the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, and Qayqayt First Nations, and the ceded territory of the Tsawwassen First Nation. We are grateful for the use of their land.
Offices: 3550 SE Marine Dr, 21, Vancouver, British Columbia V5S 4R3, CA
A home for everyone
Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society (ENFHS) is a charitable not-for-profit housing organization committed to enhancing people’s lives by creating communities that provide affordable, safe and secure housing. We manage thirteen properties and provide over 500 affordable rental homes for women, families, seniors and people with disabilities in Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Port Moody, Vancouver and Surrey. We are excited to open new buildings by 2027, where we will have 500 new affordable homes available for individuals and families in Port Moody and Vancouver. Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society was founded in 1984 by three women who wanted to make life better for themselves and other single mothers and their children. “Entre Nous Femmes” in translation is “Amongst us Women,” which speaks not to the individual but about “us together” in the community – a philosophy we still follow today. Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society respectfully acknowledges that we do our work on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Specifically, the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, and Qayqayt First Nations, and the ceded territory of the Tsawwassen First Nation. We are grateful for the use of their land.
Offices: 3550 SE Marine Dr, 21, Vancouver, British Columbia V5S 4R3, CA
