Crown Prosecutor
About The Position
The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) 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. This role 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. 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.
Requirements
- A Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or Juris Doctor (JD)
- Active membership or immediate eligibility for membership with the Law Society of Alberta
- 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
- Ability to travel within the province.
- Minimum of 0-4 years legal experience (for Crown Prosecutor 1)
- Minimum of 4 years legal experience (for Crown Prosecutor 2)
- Minimum of 11 years legal experience (for Crown Prosecutor 3)
- The ability to draft legal opinions, briefing materials, and court documents professionally and appropriately.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Criminal Litigation.
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.
- 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
- Initiating appeals
Benefits
- Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
- Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP)
- Alberta Public Service Benefit Information
- Professional learning and development
- Leadership and mentorship programs
- Crown Prosecutors get one earned day off per month for excess hours worked.
- Relocation expenses up to $10,000.00
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
