July 8th, 2021
​@  [email protected]

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LAWYER
Full time - permanent position (35 hours/week)

RESPONSIBILITY
The incumbent acts as legal counsel within the Native Friendship Centre. He provides information and personalized legal support to members of community service team. He works closely with members of the Minowé service to provide complementary justice services.
 
YOUR BIG CHALLENGES 

• Assist the members of the Minowé team in the drafting of administrative and judicial procedures;
• Assist community members in the formulation of complaints;
• Provide preparatory support for a court hearing;
• On occasion, provide legal representation in certain matters;
• Provide support in the understanding of documents with a legal content;
• Assist community members in the search for a legal representative;
• Facilitate relations between the legal representative and the community member in need of assistance;
• Collaborate with the Aboriginal community justice counsellor in the organization of training, information, awareness or educational sessions on laws, regulations or components of the justice system;
• In collaboration with MIRE team, document and identify promising practices in Aboriginal community justice.  
  

REQUIREMENTS
 
Your profile 

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in law, combined with 2 to 5 years of work experience in a similar field.
• Have work experience and-or knowledge related to the reality and issues of First Nations communities.
• Be a member of the Barreau du Québec.
• Great knowledge of Office suite software.
• Hold accurate knowledge of legal standards and practices.
• Good knowledge of French and English.

 
Your skills

•  Excellent adaptability skills.
•  Interpersonal relationship and listening skills.
•  Ability for teamwork.
•  Analysis and synthesis mindset.
•  Critical judgment and discernment.
•  Autonomy.

 
 
OUR BENEFITS

•  Hourly rate to discuss, depending on experience.
•  Summer schedule.
•  Work-family balance valued.
•  Group Insurance.
•  Voluntary retirement savings plan.
•  Paid sick leave and personal leave.

 
OTHERS
 Workplace: Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre and outreach.
 Start date: to discuss.
 
You are interested in this challenge? Interested candidates are invited to submit their application before July 8th, 2021, at the following address: 
 
Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre
Human Resources Services 
Email address: [email protected]
Website: www.caavd.ca
 
We encourage First Nations applications. We thank you for your interest in our organization.  Please note than only candidates selected for interview will be contacted. 

The Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre is a hub of urban services, a living environment and a cultural anchor for the First Peoples, fostering harmonious cohabitation in its community. Rooted in human values of inclusion, solidarity, equity and justice, the Centre shares this vision of a fairer society, which makes way for diversity, without discrimination. 
If you are looking for a motivating place that showcase First nations culture and a cause to mobilize around, you are going to love working with our teams. The Centre's great quest is the Mino Pimatisi8in, which refers to the state of overall, harmonious, and balanced well-being and, more broadly, the quality of life of its community. 
Minowé oversees the organization, practice and clinical ethics and ensures that the First nations community provides multidisciplinary professional services in health, social services, justice, and traditional healing.

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