Job description:
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
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
contact@mylegalvisa.com
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?
