Barrister & Solicitor

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 70939
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: May 28, 2025
Classification: Civil Crown Counsel 2 - Civil Crown Counsel 3
Salary**:Civil Crown Counsel 2** (Four years to 11 years of related experience): $5,462.50 to $6,764.60 bi-weekly ($142,571.25- $176,556.06)/year)
**Civil Crown Counsel 3** (More than 11 years of related experience): $7,275.46 to $8,067.13 bi-weekly ($189,889.51 to $210,552.09)/year)

Justice, Legal Services Division, is responsible for providing quality legal advice to the Government of Alberta. The work is fast-paced and provided in a collaborative team environment. Our lawyers are involved in a wide range of legal work that is challenging, interesting, important, and ever-changing. The Legal Services Division is proud to be a learning organization and offers employees opportunities to learn and grow in their careers. With its inclusive workforce, employees are engaged and supported at all career stages.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Are you an experienced lawyer looking for an in-house role with the Alberta Public Service? Do you seek sophisticated and highly varied legal work in a collaborative and rewarding environment? The People and Communities Legal Team (PAC) of Alberta Justice’s Legal Services Division has an exciting opportunity for an experienced lawyer to join our team

PAC is a team of 12 lawyers, and professional support staff, who deliver a full range of solicitor services and related strategic advice to the Departments of Seniors, Community and Social Services (SCSS), Child and Family Services (CFS) and Jobs, Economy and Trade (JET) (Child Care Divisions only).

PAC is also now supporting work in the transition of Health and AHS services, related to the Continuing Care sector, to SCSS and the newly created Assisted Living Alberta.

In this role, you will assist Government of Alberta clients with a range of legal matters in such areas as capital project financing and capital grants, ,a variety of other grants and contracts, privacy, information sharing and disclosure (including Health Information Act), legislative development, real estate law, administrative law (Citizen Appeal Panel, Human Rights Commission, Ombudsman), Crown debt collections,, public procurement, corporate governance issues, and statutory interpretation issues.

**Responsibilities will include but not limited to**:

- Provide general corporate counsel legal and related strategic advice to SCSS, CFS and JET (Child Care Divisions).
- Negotiate and draft social services grants and contracts and other agreements and documents
- Conduct transactional work
- Assist clients with the development of legislation and various orders and directives
- Statutory interpretation
- Provide advice on compliance with legislation
- Conduct legal research and prepare memorandums including legal opinions and briefs
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues on the team and across the various legal teams within Alberta Justice, as well as clients and outside legal counsel.
- A strong client focus
- Excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical, research, verbal, and written communication skills
- Strong legal drafting skills
- High flexibility and the ability to work within a team and respond quickly to address frequently changing client needs, issues, and priorities.

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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**:

- 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.

**Qualifications**:
It is required to have a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or Juris Doctor (JD) degree.
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