Legal Assistant, Advanced Projects and Traffic Office

The Alberta Public Service works to build a stronger province for current and future generations. We make a difference in the lives of Albertans through rewarding and diverse career opportunities.

The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS), within Alberta Justice, 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.

The Advanced Projects and Traffic Office (APTO), a branch within ACPS, is responsible for the prosecution of provincial statute offences.

Role Responsibilities

As a Legal Assistant in the Traffic Unit, you will play an important role in a fast-paced prosecution environment, providing essential support to Provincial Prosecutors and helping ensure they are prepared for court.

In this role, you will coordinate traffic prosecution files, ensuring documentation is accurate, complete and available when needed. Your responsibilities will include preparing dockets, retrieving and maintaining Crown files, processing disclosure requests, monitoring the unit’s email account, and responding to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders. You will also use systems such as JOIN, ROADS and LIVELINK to verify court information, obtain driver abstracts and retrieve police reports.

Strong organization, sound judgement and attention to detail will be key to your success. As questions or challenges arise, you will locate missing information, safeguard and confidential and sensitive materials, and work collaboratively with prosecutors, police and investigative agencies, defence counsel, court personnel, witnesses and members of the public.

The Job Description is provided for further details on this position.

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.

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following competencies:

• 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

Requirements:

• Two-year diploma in a related field such as a Legal Secretary, Legal Assistant, Paralegal or Criminology.
• One year of related experience working in a legal administrative role within an office setting.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook).

Equivalencies considered: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education

Assets:

• Experience working with Adobe, JOIN, MOVES, and LIVELINK.

 

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

Please Note:

• There is one permanent full-time position available.
• Hours of work per week: 36.25 hours, Monday to Friday.
• This position is located in Calgary and works out of the Centrium Place building.
• Final candidates will be required to undergo a criminal records check (CRC).

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what we have to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) .
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information.
• Professional learning and development.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.

How To Apply  

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.

Candidates are required to apply online. Please see Job Application Resources for more information.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. For example, January 2006 - June 2009 (part-time). This example is provided for illustrative purposes only. Applicants are encouraged to present their information clearly and thoroughly, using a format that best conveys their experience.

It is recommended applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) or from a recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator; please visit the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada for more information.

It is also recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application.

Closing Statement

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements.

If you require any further information on this job posting or require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Cindy V Zaiffdeen at Cindy.V.Zaiffdeen@gov.ab.ca.