Legal assistant - immigration
Legal assistant - immigration
Employer details: Canadawide Immigration Consultancy Services LTD
Job details
- Location: Surrey, BCV3W 4E8
- Salary: 28.00 hourly / 32 to 40 hours per Week
- Terms of employment: Permanent employment: Full time
- Day, Morning, To be determined, Weekend
- Start date: Starts as soon as 2024-02-29
- Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
Overview
Languages: English
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- or equivalent experience
Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
Work setting
- General law practice
- Business or corporate law
- Willing to relocate
- Business services
- Delivery and courier service
- Legal firm
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Maintain filing system
- Determine and establish office procedures and routines
- Train and supervise staff
- Open and distribute regular and electronic incoming mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information
- Prepare and key in correspondence and legal documents
- Review and proofread documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures and grammatical usage
- Perform basic bookkeeping tasks
- Establish distribution networks for products and services, initiate market research studies and analyze their findings
- Prepare invoices and bank deposits
- Assist in product development and direct and evaluate the marketing strategies of establishments
- Plan, direct and evaluate the activities of firms and departments that develop and implement advertising campaigns to promote the sales of products and services
- Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the design, development and maintenance of Internet and Intranet sites to manage an organization's Internet presence
- Complete legal documentation
- Manage contracts
- Draft legal correspondence and perform general office and clerical duties
- Direct and evaluate establishments and departments that publicize activities and events on behalf of businesses, governments and other organizations
- Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents
Supervision: 1 to 2 people
Experience and specialization
Target audience
- International students
- College/University students
- Immigrants
Computer and technology knowledge
- PCLaw in the Cloud
- MS Word
- MS Office
- Electronic mail
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Windows
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Legal software applications
Area of work experience
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Invoices
- Immigration
Area of specialization
- Legal services
- Customs services
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Large caseload
- Large workload
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Ability to multitask
- Interpersonal awareness
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
Employment groups
This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups: Indigenous people, Newcomers to Canada, Mature workers, Veterans, Visible minorities, Youth
Who can apply to this job?
Only apply to this job if:
- You are a Canadian citizen, a permanent or a temporary resident of Canada.
- You have a valid Canadian work permit.
If you are not authorized to work in Canada, do not apply. The employer will not respond to your application.
How to apply
By email
This job posting includes screening questions. Please answer the following questions when applying:
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is your current field of study?