Crown Prosecutor

Role Responsibilities

Are you currently providing exceptional legal services that ensure fair and equitable justice?

As a Crown Prosecutor you will help deliver justice through solid, fair, and effective prosecutions. With your legal expertise and the power to generate confidence in our communities, we invite you to pursue a career within the Advanced Projects and Traffic Office. We offer an intellectual and legal challenge, and an opportunity to make a difference in the community.

As a Crown Prosecutor you will be expected to take on a wide range of cases that will help define the legal treatment of regulatory matters in Alberta. Your work in defending Charter applications and advancing select and important summary conviction appeals will change the law in the province and potentially all of Canada. 

In addition, you will work closely with the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor to modernize Alberta's regulatory enforcement regime and will assist on a wide range of policy and other issues that touch the lives of all Albertans. 

Your experience and passion as a litigator will be critical as you help educate and mentor a provincial branch of prosecutors and support a culture of constant improvement and excellence in prosecution on cases great and small. 

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.

•    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 area.

•    Creative Problem Solving – Have the ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.

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

Assets:
•    Strong litigation experience, preferably in the area of criminal law.
•    Experience with Charter litigation, summary conviction appeals and/or extraordinary remedy applications.

For Law degrees obtained outside Canada, proof of accreditation from the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) is required.

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

Location: Alberta

This competition will be used to fill 1 permanent and 1 (18 months) temporary position.

This competition may also be used to fill future positions with the same or lower classification.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.

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 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.
•    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.
•    Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.