Crown Prosecutor

Role Responsibilities

Are you ready to tackle high-stakes cases that shape the future of justice?
The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) is looking for a bold, skilled, and innovative legal professional to join our Economic Crime Unit in Calgary or Edmonton. If you thrive on solving complex legal challenges, prosecuting sophisticated financial crimes, and making a lasting impact in the fight against fraud and corruption, this is your opportunity to shine. Step into a role that combines intellectual rigor, collaboration, and the chance to serve the public interest on a provincial, national, and international scale.

About the Economic Crime Unit
The Economic Crimes Unit handles Economic Crimes (EC) consisting of complex and sophisticated multi-jurisdictional and transnational fraudulent schemes that result in significant financial losses to individuals, corporations, and various levels of government. The approach to prosecuting these matters is equally as complex and sophisticated. 

Key Responsibilities 

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, the successful candidate will:

• Prosecute complex cases involving corporate fraud, securities fraud, mass-marketing fraud, large employee defalcations, and corruption, with implications at provincial, national, and international levels.
• Handle business-related regulatory offences under legislation such as the AGLC, Scrap Metal Dealers, and Privacy Acts, focusing on organized illegal behaviour contravening regulatory laws.
• Provide legal advice and counsel to police during pre-charge investigations, including matters involving lawful access issues.
• Appear at all levels of court.
• Work closely with victims and their families, ensuring their interests are represented throughout the legal process.
• Prepare and present evidence and legal arguments that are thorough, fair, and accurate to ensure just outcomes in all cases.
  
  

Key accountabilities of the position include:

• The public interest is served, and a just result is obtained.
• The Court is provided with evidence and legal argument that is fair, accurate and complete.
• Assigned prosecutions of all serious and complex cases are conducted in a highly competent manner.
• Working with victims of crimes and their families.
  
  

The ideal candidate will demonstrate: 

• Drafting legal opinions/briefings and court documents professionally and appropriately.
• Working effectively to build collaborative environments with stakeholders of the justice system.
• Problem solving and adapting approach as required to achieve intended outcomes.
• Independent decision making.
• Prioritizing actions/cases effectively to respond to numerous challenges and demands.
• Analyzing situations fully to make informed decisions.
  
  

Why Join the ACPS?

The ACPS offers an opportunity to engage in impactful work that protects the public interest and promotes justice. You will join a team of dedicated professionals committed to upholding the highest standards of prosecution. This role provides a challenging and rewarding environment for experienced prosecutors passionate about complex economic crime cases.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours 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
• 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 2: a minimum of 4 years legal experience is required.
• Crown Prosecutor 3: a minimum of 11 years legal experience is required.
• Crown Prosecutor 4: a minimum of 15+ years legal experience is required.
  
  

Prosecution experience in criminal law is required.

• 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 is a requirement. Travel within the province is required.
• In addition to your resume, please include a cover letter briefly outlining your criminal law experience and your bar call date (applications without the Cover Letter may 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

There is a Temporary position available and this competition will be used to fill future vacancies, and is located in Calgary or Edmonton.

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.