Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager (Remote, Part-Time)

Organization: Right to Live Canada
Location: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)
Time Commitment: Part-time volunteer commitment, minimum 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work. Duration negotiable, four month minimum.

------ THE MISSION
Right to Live Canada is an early-stage Canadian non-profit building Continuity—a service, financial, technological, and institutional framework designed to help people maintain access to preferable living futures.

One of our core projects is OpenABLS, an open-source engineering initiative focused on developing a non-clinical research platform for exploring artificial brain life support.

------ ROLE DESCRIPTION
The Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager will own OpenABLS documentation across Google Drive, GitHub, and supporting website content. The goal is to create an organized, accurate, traceable, and publicly useful source of project knowledge.

------ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
-- Manage and organize the Google Drive project folder and GitHub repository.
-- Establish naming, versioning, contribution, and archival standards.
-- Collect, organize, and maintain technical project materials.
-- Maintain project overviews, roadmaps, component documentation, build notes, source references, and release history.
-- Organize complex scientific and engineering information without changing its technical meaning.
-- Track missing or outdated information and follow up with contributors.
-- Coordinate documentation with web, communications, engineering, and project-management teams.
-- Maintain a clear distinction between validated findings, current work, concepts, unresolved questions, and long-term vision.
-- Support open, AI-assisted, globally distributed development.

------ QUALIFICATIONS
Universal Requirements:
-- Good video and audio equipment for virtual meetings.
-- A quiet, dedicated environment where you can give virtual meetings your full attention.

Required:
-- Experience managing technical documentation, knowledge bases, information architecture, or project documentation.
-- Practical experience with Git, GitHub, Markdown, repositories, issues, pull requests, and version/release history.
-- Strong Google Drive and Google Docs skills.
-- Excellent technical writing, editing, organization, and information-synthesis skills.
-- Ability to organize complex technical information accurately and clearly.
-- Experience establishing documentation, naming, versioning, and contribution standards.
-- Strong coordination, follow-through, judgment, and remote-work skills.

Preferred:
-- Experience with biomedical, medical-device, life-science, laboratory, hardware, or other complex technical projects.
-- Open-source or docs-as-code experience.
-- Website content management, including Wix or similar platforms.
-- Experience organizing diagrams, CAD/3D files, recordings, presentations, and other technical media.
-- Experience using AI tools for documentation or knowledge management.

------ TIME COMMITMENT
Minimum 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work. Candidates should have reliable equipment and a suitable environment for focused virtual meetings.

This role is suited to someone who is highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable taking ownership in an early-stage, fast-moving organization.

------ HOW TO APPLY
Apply using the form on our website (www.righttolive.ca/volunteer) or email your resume to volunteer@righttolive.ca.

Thank you for your consideration.