Bilingual Paralegal Assistant, Property Registries

Job Information

The Bilingual Paralegal Assistant (“Assistant”) supports the operation of the Land Titles Office and Personal Property Registry by interacting with the public to accept and process submissions, responding to search requests and general enquiries, providing information and maintaining the Registry records. The Assistant is the public face of the Registries with advanced vocational skills, working within a team setting in a generally regulated environment, where the work is fast paced and high volume, providing customer service to the public.

Under the Land Titles Act, the Land Titles Office is responsible for the review and approval for registration of all property interests in privately owned land in the Northwest Territories, which includes land owned by municipal governments and Indigenous governments under land claims agreements. Under the Personal Property Security Act, the Personal Property Registry supports a legal system where financers of personal property protect their interest in the property / collateral by filing notice of their interest in order to establish legal priority against other creditors or subsequent purchasers of the property.

The Bilingual Paralegal Assistant is supervised by the Paralegal Team Lead in Yellowknife and works with 3 Paralegals.

Typically, the above qualifications would be attained by a Grade 12 High School Diploma and legal secretary diploma with 2 years secretarial experience; or equivalent.