Director of Legal Affairs

Our client, a friendly municipality located in Montérégie, is looking for a person who will take on these responsibilities :

• Establish the orientations and objectives of the department in collaboration with the general management.
• Define priorities and implement projects and action plans within the team.
• Issue legal advice and recommendations on the municipality's orientations and practices, both to the municipal council and to the administrative side of the municipal organization.
• Ensure compliance with by-laws, laws or policies in the municipality's day-to-day practices through expert leadership.
• Contribute to budget planning related to your sector of activity.
• Optimize processes and ways of doing things within your department.
• Act as the person responsible for municipal elections and municipal referendums.
• Direct, control and review the operational processes assigned under his / her responsibility by ensuring constant quality management.
• Implement new processes or ways of doing things.
• Carry out in-depth legal analyses of the files under his or her responsibility.
• Act as the Access to Information and Archives Officer.
• Carry out legal compliance checks, follow-ups on files and coordinate municipal council meetings.
• Ensure communication with external lawyers.
• Offer advice in legal terms and legal references.
• Draft legal opinions, contracts, settlements (negotiations).

Qualifications :

As a notary or lawyer, join the ranks of this dynamic municipality that offers, among other things, group insurance paid largely by the employer and an excellent pension plan!

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