Crown Prosecutor

Role Responsibilities

Join Our Team as a Crown Prosecutor in Medicine Hat!

Are you a lawyer with exceptional litigation skills and a passion for justice? The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) has an exciting opportunity for a Crown Prosecutor to join the dedicated Prosecutions team at the Medicine Hat Regional Office in Alberta.

Your Role in Delivering Justice
As a Crown Prosecutor, you will help serve the public by delivering justice through fearless, fair, and effective prosecutions. Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Bail hearings, charge screening, early case resolution, and alternative measures.
• Deciding whether to proceed to trial or discontinue a prosecution.
• Conducting all prosecutions, entering stays of proceedings, withdrawing charges, and plea resolutions.
• Providing disclosure and drafting legal opinions, briefings, and court documents.
• Electing to proceed summarily or by indictment, taking positions on sentences, and launching appeals.
• Working with victims, witnesses, police, and other stakeholders in the justice system.
  
  

Key Accountabilities
In this role, you will ensure:

• The public interest is served, and just outcomes are achieved.
• Courts are provided with fair, accurate, and complete evidence and legal arguments.
• Serious and complex cases are prosecuted with the highest level of competence.
• Victims of crimes and their families are supported throughout the legal process.
  
  

What You Bring to the Team

• The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and qualities:
• Drafting legal opinions, briefings, and court documents professionally and appropriately.
• Building collaborative working environments with justice system stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to achieve outcomes.
• Independent decision-making and the ability to prioritize actions effectively.
• Analyzing situations thoroughly to make informed decisions.
  
  

Why Join the ACPS?
At ACPS, we are committed to upholding justice and serving the public with integrity and fairness. This is your chance to take on challenging, meaningful work while making a significant difference in the community.

Deliver Justice. Serve the Community. Advance Your Career with ACPS.

Please click on this link to view the job description for 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.

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 1: a minimum of 1-4 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 is required.
• A minimum of one year of call to the bar and relevant legal experience 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).  

Asset 
Experience in Criminal Litigation is an asset.  

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

This opportunity is located in Medicine Hat.

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.