LEGAL AID BC EXEMPT POSTING

TO: LABC STAFF

FROM: HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

POSITION: MANAGER, CRIMINAL IMMIGRATION & APPEALS

ONE FULL-TIME TERM POSITION - VANCOUVER

(To March 31, 2028)

COMPETITION NO: M037-26

DATE POSTED: July 31, 2026

CLOSING DATE: August 21, 2026

STARTING DATE: ASAP

SALARY: $126,003 to $168,995 (As per the Excluded Management Salary Scale)

HOURS OF WORK: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Reporting to the Vice-President, Legal Strategy, this position manages and coordinates the provision of Legal Aid BC's Criminal Law, Immigration and Judicial Appeal programs and services, including policy and standards development and oversight, the establishment and maintenance of a process for dealing with exceptional cases, and determining eligibility of cases for judicial appeal. The Manager provides leadership to lawyers and other departmental staff as well as external law service providers and manages contracts with same.

The following job duties are illustrative examples, and shall not be construed as an exhaustive description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job.

VALUES STATEMENT:

Our commitment to the principles of fundamental justice embedded in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and to Truth and Reconciliation, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is ambitious and foundational. It informs everything we do, as we defend liberty, equality, autonomy, and dignity; as we dismantle colonization, racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia and homophobia, and all discrimination. These are our values, and they inform our hiring practices too. Our business is aiding people in severe legal distress and necessitates internal and external alignment of practicing these values. Integrating Truth and Reconciliation, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion throughout every aspect of Legal Aid BC is critical to building that culture, and we prioritize ongoing resources to achieve that goal.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITES:

• Serves as a member of the Managers' Forum.
• Participates in the development of Legal Aid BC's budget, business plan and administrative policies; coordinates inter-divisional communications and initiatives; represents the Department on internal committees including Tariff Budget Management.
• Determines departmental program, resource and operational priorities and requirements; develops comprehensive plans and strategies to meet identified program and service needs.
• Develops and manages the Department's annual budget and is accountable for monitoring, controlling and authorizing expenditures.
• Manages and participates in special projects in area of expertise; makes presentations and participates in organizational projects within other areas.
• Hires, trains, schedules, supervises and evaluates Department staff; establishes staff goals and objectives; coordinates and delegates work projects; acts for the Department in processing grievances and applying the collective agreement; authorizes overtime, vacation, salary reviews and job classifications; provides leadership and direction on staff development.
• Oversees the work of external criminal law service providers including reviews of case decisions; negotiate contracts, monitors, evaluates and approves work and approves invoices for payment.
• Ensures for the provision of cost-effective criminal law services, including advice and representation, to eligible clients in accordance with LABC's mandate, memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Attorney General, and current service plan. These services include Judicial Appeals and applications related to Prison Law, Mental Health programs and other related services.
• Develops and maintains a centre of excellence in criminal law to retain LABC's legal expertise and ensure quality of legal service providers.
• Ensures the provision of cost-effective immigration law services, including advice and representation to eligible clients in accordance with organizational mandate, memorandum of understanding and the with the Ministry of Attorney General and the current service plan.
• Develops and maintains LABC's expertise in immigration and refugee law.
• Develops, maintains and ensures compliance with policies, standards and guidelines for the delivery of legal services, and for the referral of clients to appropriate service providers.
• Liaises with private bar lawyers, law firms and other external organizations across the province on matters of mutual interest; takes an active role in resolving problems and facilitating the delivery of effective legal services.
• Ensures that clients are properly represented with appropriate resources.
• Establishes and maintains a process for exceptional cases including the budgeting and monitoring of Large Criminal Cases
• Determines eligibility of cases for judicial appeal; ensures that only those cases with merit are referred to service providers for representation.
• Provides Duty Counsel services in criminal law and immigration.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience

Completion of a law degree from a law school of recognized standing or eligibility for membership in the Law Society of British Columbia, and a minimum of six years' related experience, as well as legal practice experience in B.C., or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Technical and Behavioural Competencies

• Considerable knowledge of administrative principles, practices and techniques, and of policies, legislation and organizational issues relevant to departmental programs, services and activities.
• Considerable knowledge of financial and resource management principles and processes related to the work.
• Considerable knowledge of current developments and best practices pertaining to departmental activities.
• Considerable knowledge of judicial processes.
• Excellent skill in planning, organizing, coordinating and administering departmental programs, services and initiatives and in analyzing related information.
• Excellent skill in communication, facilitation, change management and negotiation.
• Excellent skill in managing contracts with external law service providers.
• Excellent skill in case management.
• Ability to make sound decisions considering both departmental and broader organizational implications, and to solve problems in a timely and unemotional manner.
• Ability to exercise effective leadership, sound judgement and tact.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external contacts and to work within a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Ability to function effectively and under pressure.
• Ability to participate in program planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Ability to interpret, apply, communicate, develop and implement organizational policies and procedures.

We offer (based on your employment status and affiliation):

• Four weeks paid vacation to start that grows the longer you are with LABC
• An excellent employee benefits package, where premiums are 100% paid by LABC
• A generous defined benefit pension plan
• Support for training and development
• An Employee and Family Assistance program
• The opportunity to participate in various Employee programs (Employee Wellness, etc.)
• Support for a healthy work/life balance
• Generous leave provisions (sick time, special leaves)
• 13 paid statutory holidays
• An opportunity for a flexible hybrid work arrangement for some positions (LABC reserves the right to change this policy at any time)
• Transit friendly employer for eligible staff to have their commute subsidized
• Dog-friendly offices
• Dedicated Cultural Leave provisions for Indigenous employees
• An Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council, and Indigenous employees Council and Accessibility Committee of employees from equity-seeking groups that advises on ongoing improvements and investments in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at our workplace

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.legalaid.bc.ca