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Job Title: Legal Policy Analyst-Edmonton
Job Requisition ID: 57772
Ministry: Children and Family Services
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: June 24, 2024
Classification: Program Services 4
Salary: $2,803.40 to $3,674.86 bi-weekly ($73,168 - $95,913/year)
The Government of Alberta is committed to a diverse and inclusive public service that reflects the population we serve to best meet the needs of Albertans. Consider joining a team where diversity, inclusion and innovation are valued and supported. For more information on diversity and inclusion, please visit: https://www.alberta.ca/diversity-inclusion-policy.aspx
Children and Family Services’ mission is to assist Albertans in creating conditions for safe and supportive homes, communities and workplaces so they have opportunities to realize their full potential. The Ministry deals with topics that vary widely and addresses many of the issues people face across their life span. To learn more about our Ministry’s work, please visit: https://www.alberta.ca/children-and-family-services
Do you thrive in a very busy work environment where new challenges will keep you engaged? Do you enjoy working independently? Do you have the confidence to make recommendations evaluating delegated activities, strategies and standards for improving the child intervention system?
Then the Legal Analyst job may be the right job for you!
Reporting to the Associate Statutory Director, Office of the Statutory Director (OSD), the Analyst is responsible for the project management related to legal proceedings including fatality inquiries as well as litigation involving Children’s Services.
The legal analyst will track and coordinate activities for all legal matters, including fatality inquires and litigation matters. Ensure that all records required for production in litigation claims, fatality inquiries, and other requests for records have been accurately collected, reviewed and appropriately redacted to protect legal and statutory privileges. This position plays a key role in locating and retrieving records as well as auditing the imaging, vetting, redacting, reviewing, providing feedback on the redacted work, tracking, and disclosure of the completed work.
About Your Work Environment
The primary office is located in downtown Edmonton, which you will be required to attend. You will have regular and ongoing contact with department staff in numerous locations across the province, as well as various other stakeholders both internal and external to the Government of Alberta. Some travel may be required.
Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.
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.
The link below will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf
Related Competencies:
- Strategic Thinking: Taking a broad scale, long-term view, assessing options and implications.
- Relationship Building: Developing and maintaining positive relationships and partnerships with Ministry, FPTs and International contacts. Working cooperatively and productively with others to achieve results. Persuading, convincing or influencing.
- Resource Management: Effectively managing internal and external resources to achieve organizational goals.
- Leadership: Positively influencing people and events in a leadership role.
- Results Orientation: Knowing what results are important, focusing resources to achieve them in alignment with the goals of the organization.
- Agility: Personal willingness and ability to effectively work in, and adapt to change.
- Client Focus: Understanding and meeting or exceeding client needs.
- Communication: Clearly communicate the business model, shared values and strategic priorities.
- Organizational Awareness: Understands the structure and culture of the organization. Familiar with relevant trends and issues.
- Problem Solving and Judgment: Using original and creative thinking to make improvements and/or develop and initiate new approaches. Ability to assess options and implications in order to identify a solution.
- Developing Self & Others: A desire to work toward developing the long-term capability of others. Reflecting on experiences in order to manage and continually improve performance
Qualifications
Required:
A post-secondary degree in related discipline and four (4) years of directly related experience OR a two-year Legal Assistant Diploma with minimum of six (6) years of directly related experience OR equivalencies described below:
Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of: 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.
Required Experience:
- Working with child intervention policy, legislation and documentation
- Working with child intervention services policies/program and practice
- Working within court, presentations and applicable administrative processes
- Working within applicable legislation and regulations (i.e. CYFEA, PSECA, DECA, Child and Youth Advocates Act, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, Fatality Inquiries Act, etc.) processes and procedures
The following experience would be considered assets:
- Working within the civil litigation process
- Working with Nuix Discover (formerly known as Ringtail), Documentum, other eDiscovery software, eScan-It, CYIM and/or CICIO
- Project leadership
- Specialized experience/training surrounding the review and production of records and evidence in civil litigation and fatality inquiries
With your application please include a cover letter outlining why you feel you are a fit for this position and how it relates to your over-all career goals. All pieces of your application will be considered in the screening process.
Please ensure all experience listed includes months and years for dates, and all education include institution name and location, type of academic achievement received, date received and if you have had it assessed by IQAS or similar (for education received outside of Canada).
It is requested that applicants who have obtained educational credentials from outside of Canada and have not had them previously assessed, obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) https://www.alberta.ca/iqas-overview.aspx. Applicants are requested to include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application.
Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards
Hours of work - 36.25 weekly
This competition may be used to fill future temporary or permanent vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.
Security screening may be required for this position.
- What the GoA has to offer to prospective employees:
- Positive workplace culture and work-life balance
How To Apply
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Existing employees should access the Career tile in 1GX to submit their application in order to be recognized as an internal applicant.
Once you have created your candidate profile, visit the Alberta Public Service job site to apply for jobs at https://www.alberta.ca/government-of-alberta-jobs
Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience and relevant examples of required competencies.
Resources for applicants:
https://www.alberta.ca/find-a-job
https://www.alberta.ca/recruitment-principles
https://alis.alberta.ca/look-for-work/
Closing Statement
We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.
If you require any further information on this job posting or a copy of the role profile, and/or require a disability related accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Dawn Bradbury at Dawn.Bradbury@gov.ab.ca
If this competition is closed as per the closing date noted above, please continue to check https://www.alberta.ca/government-of-alberta-jobs for a listing of current career opportunities with the Government of Alberta.