Associate General Counsel - Vancouver, Canada - Doctors of BC

Doctors of BC
Doctors of BC
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Vancouver, Canada

4 weeks ago

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At Doctors of BC our vision is to promote a social, economic, and political climate in which members can provide the citizens of BC with the highest standard of health care, while achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair economic reward.

Together, we make a difference so our doctors can make theirs. Join us today


The Job:
Associate General Counsel**
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Strategic Legal Leadership and Team Management:

  • Guide the organization through complex legal challenges, aligning with strategic objectives.
  • Develop and implement legal frameworks, policies, and practices to support a growing organization and new inhouse legal team.
  • Promote professional development and a proactive professional culture through education and training.
  • Manage external legal counsel as required, with a willingness to manage inhouse legal professionals as the team grows over time.

Comprehensive Legal and Regulatory Oversight:


  • Provide accurate and practical advice on a wide range of corporate transactions, regulatory compliance, risk management, and governance issues.
  • Monitor legislation and regulations, advising on impact and compliance.
  • Help develop and oversee a compliance program tailored to the organization's requirements.
  • Support the Privacy Officer to ensure compliance with data privacy and security laws, and manage data breaches.

Expertise in Contract Law:


  • Negotiate, draft and review complex and varied contracts to protect the organization's interests.
  • Manage the entire lifecycle of contracts and safeguard intellectual property rights.

External Engagement and Advocacy:


  • Foster collaborative relationships with service partners, rights holders and interested parties in daily operations and when negotiating agreements.
  • Provide legal support to various operational teams across the organization, including those engaged in advocacy and public affairs, negotiations, communications and supporting our collaborative relationships with government.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Leading Through People (E):


  • Demonstrates and promotes effective conflict resolution practices, helping others to resolve complex or sensitive disagreements and conflicts, fostering cooperation and a collaborative team mentality.
  • Supports team members in learning from each other, being selfdirected, and being responsible for their own assessment and learning.
  • Mentors and develops critical talent for the future.
  • Creates a developmental environment through defining realistic yet challenging work goals with each team member and providing honest performance feedback.
  • Is a role model for how to create a diverse and inclusive environment that brings together different ideas, experiences, skills and knowledge.

Leading With Drive (E):


  • Understands and conveys organizational vision in an analytical and forthright manner.
  • Successfully encourages team to challenge tradition and the status quo to constantly find new ways to raise the level of excellence.
  • Fosters an environment of constant selfimprovement by facilitating open discussions about personal and team strengths and weaknesses.

Leading to Deliver (E):


  • Delegates effectively and has successfully fostered personal responsibility within the team.
  • Recommends and advocates for necessary process enhancements, assessing both internal and external implications and providing detailed reasoning.
  • Effectively facilitates a team that maintains the flexibility necessary for success while ensuring processes and decisions are based on analysis of all relevant data available.
  • Promotes an aligned perspective of the organization and the broader community; fosters and leverages a strategic view to address complex business issues.

Leading Through Vision (E):


  • Effectively creates the climate of continuous transformation necessary to keep the organization agile and best able to provide excellence in service.
  • Develops a team that speaks openly about personal and team strengths and weaknesses, and analyses past successes and failures to better predict and prepare for future obstacles.
  • Proficient in analyzing the environment and leveraging strengths appropriately in response to the identified trends.
  • Reviews, sponsors, and approves recommendations for organizationalwide change programs that impact crossfunctional key processes.
  • Recommends changes that impact strategic business direction, leading the planning and spearheading the implementation of change programs that impact critical functions/processes.

Trusted Advisor (E):


  • Uses extensive knowledge of the organization and the health care environment to develop successful strategies consistent with organizational vision and objectives, continuously identifying and considering emerging trends, opportunities, and risks to maintain a broad, strategic perspective and recommend proactive measures in the best interest of Members and the overall associa
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