Overview
Legal Assistant Jobs in Edmonton, Canada at Capital Power
A little about Capital Power
Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is dedicated to Powering Change by Changing Power. This north star guides our ambitions, focus, and actions as we transform our energy system. We’re a growth-oriented North American energy company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. Our team safely delivers, builds, and creates balanced energy solutions for customers across North America.
Our people are at the core of our journey to deliver reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon power solutions. We provide purpose-driven work in a safe and inclusive environment, and we live by our North Star. With us, your contributions matter – we want you to be empowered to innovate, collaborate, and ultimately drive results. We’re here to partner with you so you can learn, grow, and forge a career that’s meaningful to you.
Join us in powering North America!
Your Opportunity
One Permanent Full-Time Position.
Do you enjoy working in a dynamic, evolving environment where learning, problem-solving, and continuous improvement are part of the job, and we pull together as a team to deliver results across an exciting growth-oriented company?
Capital Power Corporation is seeking a highly organized and proactive Legal Assistant based out of Edmonton to join our in-house legal department. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a strong, collaborative, and geographically dispersed legal team and contribute to the success of the company. You will provide administrative, organizational, and operational support across a broad range of legal activities, helping ensure the efficient functioning of the corporate legal function.
You will contribute to our team by:
Providing administrative support across the entire team, including in relation to travel matters and expense claims, managing calendars, coordinating meetings and agendas, compiling and organizing documents, and drafting correspondence.
Monitoring Legal department group mailboxes and performing initial triage and routing of incoming communications and requests, including responding as appropriate to routine inquiries from across the business.
Receiving, reviewing and properly distributing documents served on Capital Power entities, ensuring timely escalation and tracking.
Supporting the legal team in organizing and managing its SharePoint and intranet sites.
Driving strong records management practices across the department, in line with company policy.
Supporting legal-related budget matters, including spend tracking, budget inquiries, reporting and data management.
Coordinating and processing invoicing for all legal expenses across the enterprise and liaising with Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders.
Liaising with department vendors/external service providers as required.
Providing administrative support to the external counsel management program, including record-keeping, and improving and delivering meaningful program data and KPI’s.
Coordinating quarterly and other periodic corporate certification processes.
Managing payment of professional and membership fees and subscriptions.
Developing and improving legal or administrative processes to improve efficiency for the department.
Assisting with event planning and team-building activities for the Legal team, including regular department meetings.
Fostering positive working relationships with internal stakeholders across the organization and being an ambassador for the department within the company.
Providing administrative support to the corporate paralegal, including an openness to learn and to build a highly collaborative and coordinated approach between these two key roles within the department.
What you will bring to the role
Education
Completed Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Business Administration. Education equivalency may be considered.
Experience & Technical Skills
5-7+ years of legal administrative experience.
Ideal candidates will have advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365, including a working knowledge of Excel for data organization, tracking and basic analysis, PowerPoint to support strong presentations and communications, and Visio for the maintenance of corporate organizational charts.
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Title: Legal Assistant
Company: Capital Power
Location: Edmonton, Canada
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