Tribunal Legal Counsel

Job Information
Job Title: Tribunal Legal Counsel

Job Requisition ID: 88693
Ministry: Justice
Location: Edmonton

Full or Part-Time: Full-time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary/Wage: Permanent

Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: November 20, 2026
Classification: Legal Counsel 3

Salary: $7,450.08 - $8,260.75 ($194,447 - $215,605/Year)

The Alberta Public Service works to build a stronger province for current and future generations. We make a difference in the lives of Albertans through rewarding career opportunities.

 
Alberta Justice’s Administrative Law Programs (ALP) division ensures effective, professional, fair and efficient access to justice without overburdening the Courts. ALP is responsible for overseeing programs that provide alternatives to traditional court processes, including the Alberta Human Rights Commission, Family Support Order Services and SafeRoads Alberta. ALP strives to ensure a fair and equitable justice system, while improving accessibility, efficiency and affordability of justice services for Albertans.

Please review Ministry of Justice to learn more and what it has to offer.

Role Responsibilities

The SafeRoads Alberta Branch is seeking a knowledgeable and motivated Tribunal Legal Counsel to provide strategic legal guidance, address complex legislative and adjudicative issues, and support fair and effective administrative decision-making. Bring your legal expertise to a role that contributes to public safety and strengthens confidence in Alberta's justice system.

Reporting to the Executive Director, SafeRoads Alberta, you will serve as legal counsel to SafeRoads Alberta and provide legal advice, analysis, and strategic support respecting the interpretation and application of legislation, administrative law principles, Charter considerations, evidentiary issues, adjudicative processes, decision-writing, and legal risk management. You work closely with adjudicators, management, policy staff, and departmental legal counsel to promote legally sound, consistent, and defensible decision-making across the program. The role also supports legislative and regulatory initiatives, development of adjudicative guidance materials, operational policy development, and responses to emerging legal issues affecting program delivery.

Your duties and responsibilities include but not limited to are:

• Provides legal advice, analysis, and strategic support to ensure SafeRoads Alberta programs, policies, and adjudicative processes are legally sound, operationally effective, and consistent with legislative requirements.
• Promotes legally consistent, defensible, and high-quality adjudicative decision-making across SafeRoads Alberta.
• Acts as an independent statutory decisionmaker in a limited number of matters requiring specialized legal expertise and advanced legal judgment.
• Maintains adjudicative independence while ensuring decisions are consistent with governing legislation and legal principles.
• Supports the ongoing development and modernization of SafeRoads Alberta's legislative, regulatory, and operational framework.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong working knowledge of the Provincial Administrative Penalties Act, Traffic Safety Act, Police Act, Criminal Code, Access to Information Act, Protection of Privacy Act, and applicable administrative law principles.
• Proficiency with legal research tools, case law databases, e-discovery platforms, and secure document management systems.
• Ability to obtain and maintain security screening required to access sensitive and confidential police oversight information.
• Knowledge of principles of statutory interpretation and administrative law.
• Knowledge of procedural fairness, natural justice, delegated decision-making, and administrative adjudication.
• Ability to interpret and apply complex legislation, regulations, and jurisprudence.
• Ability of interpreting legislation and developing or advising on policies, procedures, regulatory frameworks, or inter-agency protocols.

The Job Description is provided for further details on 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.

Successful candidate will demonstrate following competencies:

• Systems Thinking: You consider the inter-relationships among different aspects of an approach including how they relate to other programs or areas.
• Creative Problem Solving: You assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
• Agility: You anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.
• Drive for Results: You identify underlying causes for success or lack of success which may or may not involve self and takes action to ensure future success.
• Develop Networks: You proactively build networks, connecting and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders.
• Build Collaborative Environments: You lead and contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
• Develop Self and Others: You reflect and understand your own and direct reports’ areas of strengths and opportunities for development.

Qualifications

Required:

• A Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or Juris Doctor (JD) is required.
• You must be an active member or must have immediate eligibility for full membership with the Law Society of Alberta.
• A minimum of 11 years of legal experience is required.

Assets and preference:

• Experience in police oversight, police discipline, civilian complaints, or another regulatory or accountability environment.
• Training or certification in administrative tribunal advocacy, legal writing, or adjudicative processes.
• Experience coordinating legal matters across agencies whose mandates intersect, including police services, investigative bodies, Crown counsel, or government ministries.
• Experience working with administrative tribunals, delegated decisionmakers, regulatory bodies, public sector organizations, or statutory regimes is considered an asset.
• Experience involving administrative law, constitutional law, Charter issues, evidentiary analysis, decision-writing, or judicial review is considered an asset.
• Experience contributing to legal guidance materials, operational frameworks, policies, procedures, training materials, or legislative initiatives is considered an asset.

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

Notes

• This is one full-time permanent position located in Edmonton.

• Office location: Twin Atria Building, 4999-98 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6B 2X3.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a criminal records check (CRC). 

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 we have to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information.
• Professional learning and development.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.

How To Apply

Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

Candidates are required to apply online. Please see Job Application Resources for more information.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. For example, January 2006 - June 2009 (part-time). This example is provided for illustrative purposes only. Applicants are encouraged to present their information clearly and thoroughly, using a format that best conveys their experience.

It is recommended applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) or from a recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator; please visit the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada for more information.

It is also recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application.

Closing Statement

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements.

If you require any further information on this job posting or require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Tomasz Gruszka at Tomasz.Gruszka@gov.ab.ca.