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**Job Information**
Job Requisition ID: 75816
Ministry: Justice
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 17, 2025
Classification: Civil Crown Counsel 5 (CCC5)
**Salary**: $8,819.66 to $10,081.25 biweekly ($230,193 - $263,120 per year)
The Ministry of Alberta Justice helps ensure that all Albertans can live in safe and resilient communities while having access to a fair and innovative justice system. Working alongside its partners in law enforcement, family justice, health, the judiciary, criminal justice system and other stakeholders, the ministry has a direct or shared responsibility in all elements of the justice system in Alberta. Follow the link to see what else we have to offer:
The Court of King’s Bench is the Superior Trial Court for the Province, hearing trials in civil and criminal matters and appeals from decisions of the Court of Justice.
Court of King's Bench of Alberta (albertacourts.ca)
**Role Responsibilities**:
The Court of King’s Bench is the Superior Trial Court for the Province, hearing family, civil and criminal matters and appeals from decisions of the Court of Justice.
As the Executive Counsel for the Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, you will provide expert legal, policy and management advice, and executive level support. This includes high-level support on issues management, performing or overseeing research for serious and complex legal matters. You will supervise a legal team (which includes the student-at-law program), and a team focused on resolution services.
As a member of the Court’s leadership team, you will provide input and strategic support to the overall management and direction of the Court. There is emphasis on maintaining a strong relationship and collaboration with Court operations to ensure that processes and policies are efficient. You need to lead business functions to ensure there is good data analysis to inform decision-makers, spearhead initiatives and drive business goals on behalf of the Court.
In addition to that you will also:
- Provide expert legal advice and executive level management support to the Associate Chief Justices and Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench.
- Branch Management
- Liaison with Court Administration
- Provide leadership and director to a team of legal officers
French legal language proficiency (written and oral) is considered an asset for this position.
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**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**:Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, manage resilience in times of uncertainty and work effectively in a changing environment.
- **Develop Networks**: Proactively building networks, connecting and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders.
- **Build Collaborative Environments**: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
- **Systems Thinking**: The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment. It is important to know that work done in one part of the APS impacts a variety of other groups/projects inside and outside the APS. Systems Thinking allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind.
- **Creative Problem Solving**: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
- **Drive for Results**: You are able to determine what outcomes are important and maximize the use of resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization, while maintaining accountability to each other and all stakeholders.
- **Develop self and others**: You have a commitment to lifelong learning and the desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of yourself and others.
**Qualifications**:
A Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or Juris Doctor (JD) Degree supplemented with the following:
- The pay classification of Civil Crown Counsel 5 (CCC5) requires a 11+ years of directly related post bar legal experience.
- Membership in good standing with the Law Society of Alberta or eligibility for membership is required.
Related legal experience includes extensive experience with Canadian and foreign legal research tools, well-developed research and analytical skills, and exceptional legal writing skills.
Other Assets:
- Education in Business (MBA, Public policy)
- Several years of leadership or management responsibility
- Court or tribunal experience
- Law journal and other legal writing experience.
Minimum recruitment standards outline the mi
