Call for New Members
Corporate Accountability Lab Board of Directors
2024
Are you passionate about holding companies accountable for human rights and environmental harms globally? Would you want to be part of an incredible group of organizers and leaders who are committed to ensuring a world without corporate impunity? Then the Corporate Accountability Lab Board of Directors is the place for you!
About CAL
CAL uses creativity to unleash the power of the law to hold companies accountable for harming workers and communities across international supply chains. We work transnationally, with workers, unions, NGO partners, and impacted communities to build a more just and equitable world. Our work focuses on developing and testing new legal strategies to hold corporations accountable in a variety of impacted communities and contexts.
Some communities we work with include sugarcane workers in the Dominican Republic, shrimp sector workers in India, frankincense harvesters and sorters in Somaliland, açaí harvesters in Brazil, cocoa farmworkers in West Africa, and survivors of corporate-sponsored violence in Colombia. Our work focuses on issues of forced labor, hazardous child labor, environmental harm, transitional justice in conflict-afflicted geographies, gender-based violence and sex trafficking, corruption, and misleading consumers through the farcities of social auditing certification schemes.
Read more about our recent work here.
Responsibilities
The Board works closely with staff leadership to ensure CAL’s financial, legal, programmatic, and strategic sustainability. Each Board member participates in 1 committee (Governance, Finance, Development) and all Board members participate actively in fundraising. Board members commit to volunteering 4-10 hours/month, as well as attending a weekend-long in person retreat every 1-2 years.
Committee meetings are once per month for 1 hour, and full-board meetings are quarterly for 1.5 hours. Board terms are 2 years, after which we encourage you to continue your service for at least one additional term.
Preferred Qualifications:
Non-profit accounting or finance expertise
Organizational development and change management expertise
Human resources expertise with a commitment to transformative justice
Expertise in individual donor cultivation for fundraising (CAL does not accept corporate donations)
Experience building successful communications campaigns around advocacy issues
Rolling deadline until all positions filled.
Click here to submit your application.