Adjudicative Tribunals Clerk

Help safeguard the integrity of the CPA designation by ensuring fair, timely and impartial hearings before CPA Ontario’s adjudicative tribunals.

CPA Ontario is not like other organizations

We operate at a rare intersection, both regulator and membership body, responsible for upholding the integrity of the CPA designation while supporting more than 105,000 members and 19,000 students across the province. Our work sits between business and the public interest, between the evolving demands of industry and the standards that make trust possible.

Careers built here tend to look different because the work itself is different. You are not simply contributing to an organization. You are helping shape a profession that touches nearly every sector of the economy at a moment when expectations, technology, and the nature of work are all being rewritten.

About This Opportunity:

As Adjudicative Tribunals Clerk, you will facilitate and administer hearings before the Tribunal and serve as the key liaison to the Discipline, Appeal, Admissions & Registration, and Capacity Committees and the parties who appear before them. You will manage proceedings from file opening through disposition, draft and oversee sensitive Tribunal documents, and support adjudicators at every stage of the process. This is an opportunity for a detail-driven legal professional who thrives in a confidential, deadline-driven environment and is motivated by work that protects the public interest and upholds fair, timely and impartial proceedings for members, students, applicants, appellants and firms.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage all aspects of the hearing process, including opening files, responding to written inquiries from the parties and members of the public, drafting Notices of Hearing and Notices of Pre-Hearing Conference, scheduling pre-hearing conferences, and managing the filing of the parties’ materials.
• Attend in-person, electronic and hybrid hearings in the capacity of clerk, ensuring secure transmission of hearing materials to the presiding panel and maintaining and safeguarding exhibits and hearing documents throughout.
• Prepare initial drafts of key Tribunal documents as directed, including orders, directions and reasons for decisions, and oversee sensitive communications such as suspension letters, revocation letters and the publication of hearing outcomes.
• Support the adjudicative process by canvassing the adjudicator and independent legal counsel rosters for hearings, motions and appeals, flagging actual or potential conflicts, responding to adjudicators’ inquiries, and contributing to onboarding, training and orientation sessions.
• Ensure the Tribunal’s reporting obligations are met, including the disposition of cases before the Tribunal, progress against internal metrics, and external reporting requirements.

To Be Successful You Need:

• A post-secondary university degree and/or a Legal Office Administrative diploma, Law Clerk diploma, Law Clerk designation or Paralegal designation.
• At least five years of professional regulatory experience, with knowledge of administrative tribunal or court procedures and familiarity reviewing and interpreting legislation and other legal documents.
• Strong proficiency across MS 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI and Zoom.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with advanced grammar and syntax and a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proven ability to work both independently and in a team to set priorities, multi-task and meet competing deadlines, paired with the tact, diplomacy, judgment and discretion to handle sensitive and confidential information and to deal effectively with challenging individuals, including self-represented parties and members of the public.

Salary Range

• The starting annual salary range for this position is between $66,300 - $82,900 per annum, based on your qualifications, experience, and internal parity. Exceptions may be considered with further review.

Why Join CPA Ontario?

• We support your well-being through industry-leading benefits, mental health resources, savings programs, and a sustainable approach to how work gets done.
• We are committed to inclusion as a core part of how we operate, not as an afterthought.
• We have a hybrid working environment, with three days a week on-site, complemented by two days of work-from-home time. We are intentional about that: the work we do benefits from being together. We want those days you work from home to be comfortable and offer a one-time bonus towards a home office when you start.
• We invest in your growth through learning and professional development opportunities, stretch projects, secondments, and genuine paths for career progression.
• We move quickly. The pace reflects the profession we serve; it can be demanding, but the work matters, and the team around you is invested in the same outcomes you have.

We appreciate your interest in CPA Ontario and this position

At CPA Ontario, we are committed to building high-performance teams. Our selection process is thorough, fair and run by humans. All suitable applications are reviewed by someone on our Recruitment team, and if your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this role, we’ll be in touch. We encourage you to set up CPA Ontario job alerts for positions that align to your experience and career goals.