CROWN COUNSEL

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The Ministry of the Attorney General seeks a solicitor to join the team at the Legal Services Branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.

As manager of Ontario's extensive public land and its abundant and varied natural resources, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry requires your commercial legal expertise. This is an opportunity to contribute to the legal team that works in the areas of commercial and procurement law.

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About the job

Your responsibilities would include providing leadership, and legal, governance, policy, and strategic advice. You would manage a full and interesting range of commercial transactions and procurements including sophisticated and complex matters such as working to procure airplanes for ministry firefighters or helping to create a new electronically based licensing system. Working closely with your Divisional colleagues and your clients you will draw on your experience and knowledge to structure sound approaches to commercial transactions and procurements and manage issues related to your work. You would also mentor and provide direction to more junior counsel. This job includes some travel throughout Ontario.

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What you bring to the team

Mandatory requirements

Membership in good standing with the Law Society of Upper Canada

Knowledge and Skills

Through your experience in the area of procurement and commercial transactions, you demonstrate expertise in contract, commercial, and procurement transactions and in negotiating and drafting various legal instruments. You have demonstrated expert knowledge of commercial law, procurement, copyright, and Intellectual Property (IP) and Information Technology (IT) principles. You have background knowledge or experience in administrative law; knowledge of the areas of natural resources administered by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and Ontario's policies, procedures, guidelines and directives relevant to a government commercial practice. You have shown you are able to prepare well drafted documents and well analyzed, clearly written opinions. Your experience will mean you are versatile and able to recognize and assess legal implications of Ministry and government initiatives. You have demonstrated leadership in a fast paced environment. You also have proven communication skills (both oral and written), interpersonal skills and judgement based on your experience. You are a trusted advisor. You have the ability and willingness to travel throughout Ontario.

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Additional information:

Note:

• In accordance with the Ontario Public Service Employment Screening Checks Policy, the top candidate(s) may be required to undergo a security screening check. Please refer to the Additional Information / Address section above to determine the screening checks that are required for this position.
  
  You will be responsible for obtaining the criminal record check at your own expense and provide it, along with your written consent, to the Transition and Security Office (TSO), HR Service Delivery Division to evaluate the results. If applicable, the TSO, with your written consent, will request and obtain any additional screening checks as indicated in the Additional Information / Address section above that were not obtained directly by you. (Note: If a Vulnerable Sector Screening/Check is required, it must also be obtained in person at your local police service.)
  
  A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position. The screening check(s) will only be reviewed and evaluated by the TSO for the purpose of making a security clearance decision. The details of an individual's screening check(s) will be considered in specific relation to the duties and responsibilities of the position being filled. Screening check records will be maintained by the TSO and kept strictly confidential.
• Your application and cover letter must be sent as an attachment in either MS Word (.doc, .docx), PDF (.pdf), Rich Text (.rtf) or Plain Text (.txt) format, less than 2MB in size and must not be password protected

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