Help us build the foundation.
Birthright is at the stage where the right people in the right seats can shape what the foundation becomes. The three roles below are currently open. All are equity-in-mission — Birthright is a not-for-profit and does not currently provide monetary compensation. Stipends, honoraria, and grant-funded engagement may emerge as funding allows.
Board Chair & Co-Founder
Senior clinical practitioner ready to chair a foundation devoted to secure bonds.
Who you are
A senior practitioner whose career bridges clinical work and community building. You hold (or have held) a clinical credential — psychiatry, psychology, family medicine, social work, or a comparable license — and you've moved from individual practice toward systems-level relational education. You're comfortable with governance: chairing meetings, mediating board disagreements, shepherding strategic direction.
What you'll do
Chair the governing board. Sign off on major strategic decisions, partnership agreements above material thresholds, and final approvals on the rev-share governance defaults. Be the public face of the foundation alongside the executive director. Recruit board successors.
What you bring
Doctorate in clinical psychology, psychiatry, family medicine, or related field. 15+ years of practice. Demonstrated nonprofit board experience. Capacity to commit 5+ years.
Equity in mission — Birthright is a not-for-profit and does not currently provide monetary compensation. Stipends, honoraria, and grant-funded engagement may emerge as funding allows.
Research Advisor
Peer-reviewed scholar ready to chair the foundation's research council.
Who you are
A scholar of attachment, developmental psychology, family systems, or trauma-informed practice. Active or recently active in academic or applied research — peer-reviewed publications, IRB-supervised studies, or methodologically serious practitioner work. You believe the foundation's curriculum and impact claims should be grounded in evidence, and you're willing to shepherd that translation.
What you'll do
Chair the foundation's research council. Vet incoming research-partner applications. Co-author the foundation's annual evidence brief. Advise on outcome-measurement instruments embedded in the workshop platform (pre/post surveys, longitudinal follow-up cadence). Guide the foundation's standards for what counts as a publishable Birthright research artifact and how DOIs are minted.
What you bring
Doctorate in psychology, social work, family medicine, or related field. Active peer-reviewed publication record in attachment, relational, or developmental research. Comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative methods. Capacity to commit 3+ years.
Equity in mission — Birthright is a not-for-profit and does not currently provide monetary compensation. Stipends, honoraria, and grant-funded engagement may emerge as funding allows.
Director of Community Stewardship
Community elder ready to hold the relational center of the foundation.
Who you are
A community elder — ordained, lay, or both — with a track record of holding space for groups doing hard relational work. You're comfortable training facilitators, mediating disputes between partners, and ensuring the foundation's work remains rooted in the lived experience of the people we serve rather than drifting into academic abstraction.
What you'll do
Oversee facilitator training and certification. Serve as the foundation's first-line ombudsman for participant and partner concerns. Curate the foundation's relationships with faith communities, recovery communities, and other partner organizations whose work overlaps with ours. Provide pastoral / elder presence at major foundation events.
What you bring
Ordained ministry, chaplaincy, or comparable community-elder credential preferred. Demonstrated experience training group facilitators. Capacity to model the relational presence the work itself requires.
Equity in mission — Birthright is a not-for-profit and does not currently provide monetary compensation. Stipends, honoraria, and grant-funded engagement may emerge as funding allows.
A note on equity in mission
These roles are unpaid in the traditional sense. We're recruiting people whose own professional standing makes them able to invest a portion of their time in building something that doesn't yet exist. As the foundation matures and funding is secured — through grants, founding-partner subscriptions, and donor relationships — we expect stipends and honoraria to emerge for board service. We can't promise that today. We can promise transparency about it as it evolves.