Role Responsibilities

Are you a skilled lawyer with a strong background in litigation?

The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) is seeking One Permanent Crown Prosecutors to join the Calgary Rural and Regional Response Office (CaRRRO). In this role, you will play a vital role in serving the public interest while working on diverse, challenging, and impactful cases within a supportive and fast-paced environment.

As a Crown Prosecutor, you will help deliver justice through fearless, fair, and effective prosecutions. The role encompasses a broad range of prosecutorial responsibilities, including bail hearings, charge screening, early case resolution, alternative measures, determining whether to proceed to trial or discontinue a prosecution, conducting prosecutions, entering stays of proceedings, withdrawing charges, plea resolution, providing disclosure, electing to proceed summarily or by indictment, taking positions on sentencing, drafting legal opinions and briefings, working with victims, witnesses, and police, and initiating appeals.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the public interest is served and a just result is obtained.
• Provide the Court with evidence and legal argument that is fair, accurate, and complete.
• Conduct assigned prosecutions of serious and complex cases in a highly competent manner.
• Work effectively with victims of crime and their families.

The Ideal Candidate Demonstrates

• The ability to draft legal opinions, briefing materials, and court documents professionally and appropriately.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with justice system stakeholders.
• Sound problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt approaches as required to achieve intended outcomes.
• The ability to make independent decisions in a complex legal environment.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to effectively prioritize actions and cases to manage competing demands and challenges.
• The ability to thoroughly analyze situations and make informed decisions.

This opportunity offers the chance to contribute meaningfully to Alberta’s justice system while working on challenging and rewarding files that have a direct impact on the public interest.

Please click on this link to view the job description.

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: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf

• 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.

Position specific competencies:

• Organizational Awareness: Understanding business plan goals, and a commitment to act upon them
• Communication skills: ability to effectively convey, receive, and interpret information in various forms, whether verbally, non-verbally, or in writing
• Teamwork: Working cooperatively with others toward agreed goals.
• Leadership: The ability to influence others to follow one’s business plan.
• Innovation: Ability to adapt to change and proceed toward revealed goals.
• Self-management: An on-going effort to improve one’s own performance.
• Resource Management: Effectively management internal and external resources to achieve organizational goals.

Qualifications

A Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or Juris Doctor (JD), and active membership or immediate eligibility for membership with the Law Society of Alberta is required.

• Crown Prosecutor 1: a minimum of 0-4 years legal experience is required.
• Crown Prosecutor 2: a minimum of 4 years legal experience is required.
• Crown Prosecutor 3: a minimum of 11 years legal experience is required.

Other requirement

• For Law degrees obtained outside Canada, proof of accreditation from the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) is required.
• A valid Alberta Motor Vehicle Operators License and travel within the province.

Asset

Experience in Criminal Litigation.

In addition to your resume, please include a cover letter briefly outlining your criminal law experience (applications without the Cover Letter will not be considered).

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

Notes

These opportunities are located in Calgary.

The Hours of Work are 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Travel within Alberta to circuit court locations is a requirement for this role.

Final candidates for this position will be asked to undergo security screening. Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate.

This competition may be used to fill future permanent, temporary, full time and part time vacancies.

Successful candidate(s) may be eligible for relocation expenses up to $10,000.00.

The Alberta Public Service is a great place to work!

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits

• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance
• Leadership and mentorship programs
• Crown Prosecutors get one earned day off per month for excess hours worked.