Crown Prosecutor

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 63754
Ministry: Justice
Location: Wetaskiwin
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: November 12, 2024
Classification: Crown Prosecutor 1 - 3

**Salary**: Crown Prosecutor 1 - $3,742.51 to $4,714.48 bi-weekly ($97,679.51 - $123,047.93/year)
Crown Prosecutor 2 - $5,303.39 to $6,567.57 bi-weekly ($138,418.48 - $171,413.58/year)
Crown Prosecutor 3 - $7,063.55 to $7,832.16 bi-weekly ($184,358.66 - $204,419.38/year)

The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) prosecutes persons charged with _Criminal Code, Youth Criminal Justice Act_, and provincial statute offences. The ACPS promotes safe communities by vigorously prosecuting cases involving serious and violent crime and working with individuals and organizations in the community to identify and implement improved and alternative approaches to the administration of criminal justice.

**Central Region**

Wetaskiwin
- **Role Responsibilities**:
The Alberta Crown Prosecution Services Division (ACPS) has an opportunity for a Crown Prosecutor to join our Prosecutions team at the Wetaskiwin Crown’s Office.

As a Crown Prosecutor, you will help deliver justice through fearless, fair and effective prosecutions. The daily responsibilities of Crown Prosecutors encompass a multitude of duties, such as: bail, charge screening, early case resolution, alternative measures, whether to proceed to trial or discontinue a prosecution, conduct of all prosecutions, entering a stay of proceedings, withdrawing charges, plea resolution, provision of disclosure, electing to proceed summarily or by indictment, taking a position on sentence, drafting legal opinions/briefings, dealing with victims, witnesses and police, and launching appeals.

Specific accountabilities of the position include:

- The public interest is served and a just result is obtained
- The Court is provided with evidence and legal argument that is fair, accurate and complete
- Assigned prosecutions of all serious and complex cases are conducted in a highly competent manner
- Working with victims of crimes and their families
- Drafting legal opinions/briefings and court documents professionally and appropriately
- Working effectively to build collaborative environments with stakeholders of the justice system
- Problem solving and adapting approach as required to achieve intended outcomes
- Independent decision making
- Prioritizing actions/cases effectively to respond to numerous challenges and demands
- Analyzing situations fully to make informed decisions

**Please**

**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

- **Agility**:

- Must be able to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience, and work effectively in changing environments
- **Drive for Results** - Sets goals and prioritizes work to accomplish them. Follows through on duties and tasks and reports on progress.
- **Develop Self and Others** - Desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of self and others
- **Build Collaborative Environments** - Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
- **Develop Networks -** Proactively builds networks, connects and build trust in relationships with different stakeholders
- **Systems Thinking** - Understands how work contributes to the achievement of departmental goals. Anticipates changes in own area based on activities in other areas.
- **Creative Problem Solving**:

- Have the ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.

**Position specific competencies**:

- Organizational Awareness: Understanding business plan goals, and a commitment to act upon them
- Communication skills
- Teamwork: Working cooperatively with others toward agreed goals.
- Leadership: The ability to influence others to follow one’s business plan.
- Innovation: Ability to adapt to change and proceed toward revealed goals.
- Self-management: An on-going effort to improve one’s own performance.
- Resource Management: Effectively management internal and external resources to achieve organizational goals.

**Qualifications**:
A Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or Juris Doctor (JD), and active membership or immediate eligibility for membership with the Law Society of Alberta is required.
- Crown Prosecutor 1: a minimum of 0-4 years legal experience is required.
- Crown Prosecutor 2: a minimum of 4 years legal experience is required.
- Crown Prosecutor 3: a minimum of 11 years legal experience is required.

Prosecution experience