General Counsel, Compassionate Intervention Commission

• Job Title:
  
  General Counsel, Compassionate Intervention Commission
• Job Requisition
• Ministry:
  Mental Health and Addiction
• 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:
  October 15, 2026
• Classification:
  Legal Counsel 4
• Salary: $8,502.54 to $9,352.26 bi-weekly ($221,916 - $244,093/year)

The Compassionate Intervention Commission is an independent, quasi-judicial tribunal established under the Compassionate Intervention Act. The Commission makes decisions for individuals suffering from severe addiction who are likely to cause harm to themselves or others without intervention.

The Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is transforming Alberta’s health system to the Alberta Recovery Model, which adopts a recovery-oriented approach for addiction and mental health. (for more information see: )

A recovery-oriented system of care is a coordinated network of personalized, community-based services for people at risk of or experiencing addiction and mental health challenges. It provides access to a full continuum of services and supports, from prevention and intervention to treatment and recovery. The vision is for every Albertan to have the opportunity to pursue recovery and live a healthy and productive life.

The Ministry also liaises with the Office of the Alberta Health Advocates and Recovery Alberta. To learn more about Alberta Mental Health and Addiction and what we have to offer, follow this link:

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.

• 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…