Requisition #: ALB00470769
Location: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
Salary Range: $67.73 - $121.87 per hour
Your Opportunity:
Are you ready to lead in a forward-thinking environment and make a lasting impact on Alberta’s healthcare system? As General Counsel for Primary Care Alberta, you play a critical role in advising the CEO and executive team, providing strategic legal counsel on regulatory compliance, statutory requirements, and organizational governance. You are an accomplished business leader with extensive in-house legal experience who combines sharp legal expertise with a strong understanding of organizational needs.
As a trusted advisor, you will guide both internal and external stakeholders, exercising sound judgment and anticipating future challenges. Your ability to manage risk, negotiate complex solutions, and make informed decisions will ensure the long-term success of the organization.
As General Counsel, you possess excellent communication skills that enable you to establish and maintain positive relationships with local, provincial, and national representatives and stakeholders, including government departments and officials. In this role, you oversee and coordinate input from other legal advisors, including those in Alberta Health and Justice and Solicitor General, and external legal counsel as required for specialized expertise.
Primary Care Alberta, the new provincial health agency overseeing and coordinating the delivery of primary health care services, will create a modern, more responsive and unified health care system that prioritizes patients, empowers front-line health care professionals and helps reduce pressures on the entire health system.
This position will be part of Primary Care Alberta effective November 18, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Primary Care Alberta.
Description:
The General Counsel is a strategic advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors on all legal matters, including but not limited to, health law, labour relations and employment matters, corporate/commercial matters, contractual language, privacy and freedom of information policy, legal trends, risk, and general regulatory compliance. Reporting to the Strategic Services Lead, this position assesses legal liability and provides risk management and mitigation strategies. You are responsible for maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of organizational governance and ensure compliance with all relevant policies and procedures, including those identified in the service agreement.
In this role, you oversee internal legal counsel and appropriately engage external legal counsel to meet the legal needs of the organization. In addition to managing the flow of legal advice and recommendations throughout the organization to ensure consistency and compliance in all areas, the role manages and oversees all litigation or potential litigation by or against the organization. You are skilled at developing and maintaining strategic and operational working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to, Alberta Health, elected officials, Office of the Alberta Legislature, Office of the Ethics Commissioner of Alberta, Office of the Information and Privacy
Commissioner of Alberta, educational institutions, auditors, and peer organizations. You ensure the organization meets its commitment to a standard of conduct that preserves and enhances public confidence in the integrity, objectivity, and impartiality of its clinical and business activities. The General Counsel also acts as Corporate Secretary and Advisor to the Board.
Required Qualifications:
The successful candidate must possess a J.D. or LL.B and be a member in good standing with the Law Society of Alberta. At least fifteen (15+) years of legal experience, preferably in an in-house healthcare legal department or law firm serving the healthcare sector or similarly complex service delivery environment. A combination of qualifications and experience may be considered.
Additional Required Qualifications:
With demonstrated leadership abilities, including comfort with decision-making and exercising sound judgement, you have experience providing expert counsel to senior organizational leaders. Your communication skills demonstrate your ability to influence, negotiate, and mediate resolutions to complex situations, and you communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences, including internal and external stakeholders. You have experience working with government ministries, elected officials, and the media. Along with your excellent ability to develop organization strategy and planning, you possess skills in leading strategic initiatives and managing change to achieve positive results. The successful candidate displays an ability to foster partnerships to achieve organizational goals, and models innovation and creativity.
Preferred Qualifications:
A graduate degree (MBA) is preferred. Experience in the areas of health law, labour relations and employment matters, corporate/commercial matters, contractual language, privacy and freedom of information policy, legal trends, risk, or general regulatory compliance is preferred.
How to Apply:
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