Role Responsibilities Are you an experienced lawyer with expertise in administrative law, statutory interpretation, and quasi-judicial decision-making? Do you excel in complex and evolving legal environments where sound judgment, procedural fairness, and strategic legal leadership are critical? Reporting administratively to the Executive Director, Compassionate Intervention Commission, and working under the day-to-day functional direction and oversight of the Commissioner, the General Counsel serves as the Commission's principal legal advisor and provides strategic legal leadership on matters arising under the Compassionate Intervention Act, its regulations, and related legislation.

This role provides authoritative legal advice to Commission members, the Commissioner, senior leadership, and staff on complex legal, procedural, governance, privacy, and administrative law matters.

Key responsibilities include: • Provide strategic legal advice and opinions on statutory interpretation, administrative law, procedural fairness, evidentiary matters, jurisdictional issues, and emerging legal risks. • Guide Commission members in exercising their adjudicative responsibilities by supporting legally sound, consistent, and defensible decision-making. • Advise the Commissioner, Executive Director, and senior leadership on complex legal, governance, legislative, regulatory, operational, and policy matters affecting the Commission's mandate. • Establish and lead the commission’s legal education framework,



providing orientation and advisory support for continuing education programs for Commission members, promoting adjudicative excellence, consistency in decision-making, procedural fairness, and the effective application of legislation and administrative law principles. • Serve as the key liaison for external legal counsel, including the direction of legal opinions, management of legal service delivery, assessment of performance, and stewardship of legal expenditures to ensure alignment with the Commission's mandate and objectives. • Lead the analysis and resolution of novel or precedent-setting legal issues where legislation is untested, jurisprudence is limited, and competing rights and public interests must be balanced. • Oversee legal strategy for judicial reviews, appeals, and related proceedings, including external legal services retained on behalf of the Commission. • Counsel the Commission on privacy, access to information, information-sharing, information governance, and records management matters involving sensitive personal and health information. • Support the development and continuous improvement of legislation, regulations, policies, procedures, and decision-making frameworks that strengthen Commission operations and promote legally defensible processes. • Represent the Commission in discussions with ministries, public agencies, and partner organizations, while contributing to strategic planning, governance, and organizational development initiatives.

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📌 General Counsel, Compassionate Intervention Commission (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton