Legal Executive Support

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66231
Ministry: Justice
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Ongoing
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: February 11, 2025
Classification: Executive Support 3

**Salary**: $2,201.29 to $3,135.11 bi-weekly ($57,453 - $81,826/year)

The Ministry of 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 this link find out more about our department

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**Role Responsibilities**:
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with new challenges every day? Do you love juggling multiple tasks amid ambiguity, improving processes, taking on projects, and working with others? If so, this Executive Support position with the Government of Alberta might be a great fit for you.

The Executive Support is a key member of the Justice Deputy Minister’s Office (DMO) and serves as a liaison with external stakeholders, internal executive offices, division branches, and other government Ministries.

This position deals with challenging, high-profile departmental and legal issues of sensitive and confidential nature and require a thorough knowledge and understanding of departmental operations, policies and practices. You will deal with challenging, high-profile issues of sensitive and confidential nature and require a thorough knowledge and understanding of departmental operations, policies and practices.

The main responsibilities of this position include:

- Providing coordination for the day-to-day operation of the Deputy Minister’s Office (DMO) (e.g. scheduling and coordinating meetings and general office logistics, coordinating special projects for the executive team, etc.).
- Providing staff with direction and advice on procedures with Action Requests, briefings and legislation.
- Acting as a branch liaison to ensure accurate and timely information for programs & procedures are provided to the Deputy Minister’s Office.
- Building and maintaining strong supportive relationships with internal GoA stakeholders and external contacts, including the courts.
- Identifying administrative issues with potential to impact the operation of the office; recommend solutions and courses of action to deal with issues.
- Working on short and long-term assignments on a variety of department or divisional issues. Identify scope of project and deliverables, review requirements, manage project timetables and produce deliverables including making recommendations and taking appropriate actions.
- Coordinating a wide range of department or division meetings and events. Identify and secure logístical needs, prepare necessary correspondence, agendas, minutes etc.
- Leading and providing support to initiatives and projects that address business needs or integrate various division or department priorities.
- Reviewing departmental expenditures, commitments and budget projections.

**.**:
To be successful in the role, you will be required to demonstrate:

- Excellent time management, organizational, coordination skills while maintaining a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality.
- High attention to detail and the ability to multitask and organize conflicting priorities with competing deadlines.
- Excellent time management, organizational and coordination skills while maintaining a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality. verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with offices of government executives and key stakeholders.
- Public relations skills - professionalism, relationship building and diplomacy.
- The ability to multitask and organize conflicting priorities with competing deadlines.
- Political acumen: have a solid understanding on how to navigate complex situations in large-scale organizations including skills in conflict resolution and collaborative negotiation.
- Troubleshooting skills that will enable you to solve issues as they arise.

**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 d