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Executive Services provides strategic support and services to the Parliamentary Librarian, senior executives and the Library of Parliament in various areas, including corporate communications and management of the Library’s digital presence.

We are currently looking for candidates to staff the following position: General Counsel.
The General Counsel provides expert legal and strategic analysis and advice to the Library of Parliament on a range of legal, parliamentary, policy, corporate and organization-wide issues.

The incumbent is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the use of outside legal counsel by the Library, and for the Library’s response to requests under the Access to Information Act and other legislation.
The incumbent provides analysis, advice and support with respect to legal issues involving copyright and intellectual property, employment and labour law, and contractual arrangements involving the Library and its employees.

The General Counsel also acts as the Library’s Values and Ethics Officer, and is responsible for providing advice, developing and offering training, and resolving issues related to the Values and Ethics Code of the Library of Parliament.
GENERAL COUNSEL EXECUTIVE SERVICES Indeterminate / Secondment / Interchange Opportunity LEX-1* ($112,300 – $132,100) ** (Bilingual staffing – imperative: CBC/CBC) * Job description under review ** Rates of pay include economic increases up to 2017; Eligible for performance pay NOTE: This selection process may also be used to establish a pool of prequalified candidates that could be used to staff determinate and indeterminate positions at the Library of Parliament that require similar knowledge or competencies.
For the purposes of this selection process, the competencies listed in the attached Competency Profile will be evaluated.
The following knowledge criteria will also be evaluated: • Thorough knowledge of the general principles, theories, applicable provisions and practices of several fields of law, such as, but not restricted to Canadian public, crown, constitutional parliamentary, administrative, copyright and intellectual property, contract, access to information and privacy and labour and employment law, in particular, the Parliament of Page 1  3 LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT Canada Act, the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, the Canadian Human Rights Act, and the Official Languages Act.
• Detailed knowledge of legal methods, techniques and practices, such as techniques of statutory interpretation, legal research (both electronic and manual), legal reasoning and analysis, and comparative legal studies.

• Knowledge of the theories, principles and procedures of the Canadian parliamentary and judicial systems.

• Knowledge of the Library of Parliament’s structure, mandate, objectives, policies, programs and reporting relationships.
• Extensive knowledge of current and emerging issues of interest to parliamentarians in order to provide advice, guidance and mentoring to Library legal and subject matter experts as they analyze and synthesize legal and policy issues and develop non-partisan information and analysis to support parliamentarians in their legislative, committee and representative roles.
To be considered, candidates must have: • Bachelor of Laws degree from a recognized university and membership in good standing in a law society of a province or territory.

• Excellent communications skills (written and verbal) are required to formulate advice and opinions and present them in a way suitable to the given audience, to handle files and briefings, and to develop and write policy guidelines and products.

• Experience in drafting legal and policy documents.
• Experience working in a parliamentary environment • Significant*** and recent**** experience in providing legal and strategic advice on complex***** matters to senior officials in at least one of the following areas: copyright and intellectual property; employment and labour law; and, privacy and access to information law.
Candidates retained in this selection process will be required to obtain: • A successful second-language evaluation (Bilingual staffing – imperative: CBC/CBC) • A successful pre-employment screening Assets: • Significant*** experience in applying administrative law.

• Significant*** and recent**** experience in providing legal services in the federal public service or Parliament.
• Experience in providing guidance with respect to standards of ethical conduct expected of employees, and in the application and compliance of corporate codes of values and ethics.

• Experience in overseeing the use of outside counsel.

***Significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with having performed a broad range of various complex related activities acquired over a period of approximately three years.
Page 2  3 LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT **** Recent experience is defined as experience acquired within the past two years.

*****Complex matters include those that involve reconciling a number of perspectives, competing priorities, and significant legal and political risk, often where there are limited or no precedents and which require the adaptation of existing frameworks within which to address the issues / problems.

They may also require the assessment of fundamental questions of law and policy.
Additional Information: • This selection process is open to the public and to employees of the Library of Parliament, the Senate, the House of Commons, the Office of the Senate Ethics Officer, the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the Parliamentary Protective Service, and the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

• This selection process will include a second-language evaluation, a written qualifying exam and an interview.
The interview will consist of behavioural, situational and knowledge-based questions.

Candidates will be required to pass each stage in order to move to the next stage of the selection process.

• Qualified candidates from this selection process may be considered for determinate or indeterminate positions at the Library of Parliament that require similar knowledge and/or competencies.
• Education and experience requirements will be used to determine which candidates will be asked to participate in the next stage of the selection process.

• Satisfactory references and proof of education are essential conditions of appointment.

• Travel and relocation expenses are the responsibility of the candidates.

• The Library of Parliament is committed to employment equity.

• Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and to permanent residents who are legally able to work in Canada.
Applicants who have a valid work permit may also be considered.

Apply no later than Sunday, 8 December 2019 – 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time).

To apply, please send us your curriculum vitae, along with a covering letter indicating how you meet each of the education, experience requirements and assets, if any, of the position.

Please quote Staffing Process 19- LOP-406 in your documents and, if you apply by email, in the subject line of your email.
Send us your application: By email: LOPCareers-CarrieresBDP@parl.gc.ca By fax: 613-995-9582 By mail: 50 O’Connor Street Library of Parliament Human Resources Directorate Ottawa, ON K1A 0A9 Questions?

Contact Human Resources at 613-617-0943 or LOPCareers-CarrieresBDP@parl.gc.ca.

We thank all those who apply.

Please note that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

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