Legal Counsel - Workplace Investigations and Privacy, 100% Regular

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning.

Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large.

Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice-principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking a creative, dynamic, committed professional to join our team :

Legal Counsel - Workplace Investigations and Privacy

1.0 Regular

$125,934 to $146,993 per annum (Union Exempt, Level 10)

Reporting to the General Counsel, the Legal Counsel provides legal advice and services to the District, with a particular focus on overseeing workplace investigations involving the professional conduct of employees, including the Respectful Workplace (Anti-Harassment) Policy and investigations into Alleged Employee Misconduct Toward Students.

The Legal Counsel supervises the work of the internal professional conduct investigators as well as third-party investigators, and provides legal advice to leaders across the district on issues related to professional conduct in the workplace, including progressive discipline.

The Legal Counsel also provides legal advice to Senior Staff, Principals and Managers on matters related to privacy law, coordinates the Access to Information process and related procedures, implements privacy programs for the District, and provides advice on other labour and administrative law matters.

Qualifications

• Law degree (LL.B / J.D.) and is a member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario;
• At least 5 years experience as a lawyer, preferably in an area of law involving investigations such as workplace investigations, child protection, or criminal law;
• Demonstrated understanding of the law related to conducting fair and effective workplace investigations;
• Demonstrated managerial and leadership skills, including the ability to lead teams and engage in change management;
• Knowledge of labour relations and employment matters as they relate to the education sector, including an understanding and / or experience with the Education Act, Labour Relations Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, Human Rights Code, and Child, Youth and Family Services Act;
• Demonstrated understanding of anti-oppression and anti-racism, and the impact of racism and how it intersects with other identities, on the experience and achievement of students in schools and on staff in the performance of their professional duties;

Familiarity with privacy statutes that apply to the protection of personal information in the public sector, including the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, and the Personal Health Information Protection Act.

• High degree of initiative, independent thought, judgment and decision-making skills;
• Research and analytical skills combined with superior written skills for report writing;

Demonstrated managerial and leadership skills to supervise, coach and mentor staff and teams.

• Organizational skills, as well as time management techniques for planning and managing multiple demands, priorities, and conflicting deadlines;
• Demonstrated expertise with electronic file management systems, complex spreadsheets, or database management would be considered an asset;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to provide advice, direction and / or consultation at a high level, to internal and external stakeholders on legal, privacy and employee conduct matters;
• delivering presentations and facilitating training & information sessions;

Application Process

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board uses Apply to Education (ATE) to manage applications for all job competitions.

OCDSB employees can apply to this job posting using their existing ATE account at ocdsb.simplication.com.

External Applicants : If you do not have an existing ATE account, you will be asked to create one at https : / / ocdsb.simplication.

com Choose ECE, EA & Support Staff as the job category. Once you have set up your account, you can search for the job and then apply.

You must upload a resume and covering letter which outlines your qualifications and suitability for the this position.

Applications will be considered in accordance with the Union Exempt Employee Handbook.

OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa.

Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.

If you require accommodations at any point in the selection process, please send an email to [email protected] at any time.

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collected pursuant to the Education Act and will be used to determine the

eligibility for employment with the OCDSB. Questions about this collection

should be directed to the Manager, Human Resources, 133 Greenbank Road, Nepean,

Ontario K2H 6L3