Executive Director AD — CPLEA
The Centre for Public Legal Education in Alberta (CPLEA) is seeking an Executive Director with a deep commitment to the promotion of social justice. The Centre’s mission is to enhance the accessibility and quality of justice realized in Canada. It creates learning opportunities and builds learning communities that facilitate the creation, management, exchange, and integration of knowledge among people within the justice system and between them and the general public.
Reporting to the President of the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will assume overall responsibility for providing leadership and direction to CPLEA. You will be responsible for working with staff to further the Centre’s mission, and for managing day- to-day operations. Key accountabilities include organizational and financial management; facilitating external and internal communication including relationship building; fundraising; policy development; risk assessment; project and program design, delivery and evaluation; and ensuring excellence in delivery of all CPLEA services.
As the ideal candidate, you will have a broad knowledge of federal and provincial justice systems, the political environment in which the law exists, and the not-for-profit sector. You will possess a university degree in law, adult education, information management or a related discipline. An advanced degree will be an asset. As well, you will have high level oral and written communication skills, and will be comfortable making presentations to diverse audiences. You will have experience with Board governance and HR management, as well as having strong ICT skills and an interest in using new technologies for building community capacity, information dissemination, and advancing the mandate of the organization. The Executive Director’s role is multi-faceted and requires a well-organized creative person who is also a strategic thinker with demonstrated leadership ability. The incumbent must take ambiguity in stride, and be comfortable working in an innovative, highly collegial and cohesive, and collaborative organizational structure.
Over its more than 35 years of providing high quality legal information to Alberta, CPLEA has developed an excellent reputation with individuals, community organizations and the justice community in the province. The Executive Director will be expected to maintain that reputation in a dynamic environment, working collaboratively with the Board, staff, funders, professional associations, community agencies, and other organizations.
If you are looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to social justice, submit your application by March 18, 2013 to Lorna Stefanick, President, [email protected].
