The Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) was founded in 1975 to serve the Alberta legal community. As the primary provider of continuing legal education in the province, we serve the spectrum of educational and professional development needs by delivering high-quality educational programs and resources to legal professionals throughout Alberta.
We strive to lead the way in corporate culture by valuing our greatest asset—our employees, who are forward thinking and continuously set high standards of excellence. We are happy to have been named as one of Alberta’s Top 70 Employers for the past two consecutive years (2017 & 2016).
We are seeking to fill the role of Education Coordinator, based in Edmonton (some travel within Alberta is required). This position is for a term ending June 30, 2019.
THE ROLE
Education Coordinators are responsible for efficient and effective project coordination of legal education programs, services, and resources. They report to the Director of Education.
Relationship Building
- Build and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with LESA staff and contractors
- Build and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with volunteers, service providers, and other external stakeholders
- Maintain and enhance LESA’s reputation as a provider of high-quality legal education programming and resources
- Communicate effectively in a variety of formal and informal settings, with the ability to monitor audience response and adapt content and style accordingly
- Use diplomacy and tact to diffuse issues
Planning and Management
- Relying on strong internal and external relationships, apply best practices and organizational standards for meeting and event coordination, including travel, accommodations, food and beverage, meeting and event set-up, on-site communications, and technical production (e.g.audiovisual support and working with preferred service providers)
- Relying on strong internal and external relationships, apply project management best practices to plan, coordinate, and deliver high-quality legal education programs, services, and resources
- Develop plans, project charters, and budgets
- Integrate project activities of volunteers, contractors, and staff
- Monitor actions, timeframes, milestones, key performance indicators, and resources to achieve goals and objectives and adhere to plans, budgets, and organizational goals
- Track progress and completion of actions and related deadlines and expenses, including coding invoices and following up on outstanding expenses
- Work on several simultaneous projects
CLOSING DATE: 4:00 PM on January 17, 2018, or until a successful candidate has been hired. Click here to view the full job posting.
