Investigative Analyst

at  Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner

INVESTIGATIVE ANALYST

Classification: Band 2
Reports to: Team Lead, Oversight Operations
Position: Multiple
Location: Greater Victoria, BC; Metro Vancouver, BC

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Effectively manage a high volume of assigned case files within defined timelines.
• Understanding the requirements and nuances of the Police Act legislation and the mandate and priorities of the Police Complaint Commissioner, conducting oversight and analyses of assigned investigations and discipline proceedings.
• Conduct admissibility analyses of assigned registered complaints pursuant to the Police Act.
• Ensure that all work performed includes the use of GBA+, and trauma informed and culturally competent perspectives/approaches.
• Review status reports and monitor Police Act investigations to ensure legislated timelines and reporting requirements are met.
• Ensure a professional relationship with assigned Professional Standards Investigators.
• Prepare comprehensive briefing notes of case files and deliver sound recommendations to the Commissioner on a wide range of matters that fall under the Police Act. This includes identifying the need for further investigation and adjudicative review.
• Prepare statutory letters to be sent to complainants, police officers, professional standard investigators and discipline authorities explaining decisions made under the Police Act by the Commissioner.
• Attend discipline proceedings held under the Police Act and provide informational updates to the Commissioner.
• Assist Public Hearing and Commission Counsel in the preparation for adjudicative reviews, which includes drafting and filing legal documentation, file coordination, witness interviews, liaising with the Registrar and attending hearings to provide substantive and logistical assistance to Public Hearing and Commission Counsel.
• Use the electronic case management system to maintain and manage case information in accordance with OPCC policies and standards.
• Participate in assigned special projects.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Preference may be given to applicants with recent experience (within last ten years):

• A Bachelor of Law (LLB) or Juris Doctor (J.D.)
• Experience working with diverse groups or communities such as Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour, LGBTQ2S+, and People with disabilities.
• Experience working with vulnerable populations (e.g., complex health and social challenges).
• Experience or training in trauma-informed and culturally safe practices.
• Fluency in more than one language.
• Experience working with legal principles and procedures, such as administrative law or criminal law.
• Experience in and understanding of current investigative practices and procedures, and major case management principles or conducting investigations in a regulatory setting.

INDIGENOUS RELATIONS BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES:

• Open Listening is letting go of conventional means of listening. It means listening to and valuing the telling of stories, and letting pauses in conversation extend into silence rather than jumping in to dispute, agree, question or move on. It is an awareness of personal bias or judgment and its effect on one’s ability to hear. It is the desire and ability to set aside physical, mental and emotional distractions in order to be fully focused and listening respectfully and openly. It is staying open to the message even when conversations are filled with raw emotions like sadness or anger, and believing that each person’s knowledge and reality is legitimate and valuable. Finally, it requires a willingness to reflect upon a story or message and to derive meaning from it based upon the situation in which it is shared.
• Self-discovery and Awareness means understanding one’s thoughts, feelings, values and background and how they impact the success of the interaction and relationship, or how they may influence one’s work. It is recognizing one’s own biases by tracing them to their origins, through reflection and by noticing one’s own behaviour—and then intentionally seeking a way forward that positively impacts the interaction and relationship. It means maintaining new ways of thinking and acting when situations become difficult or uncertain, or in times of urgency.
• Sustained Learning and Development means continually increasing your ability to build and maintain respectful and effective relationships with Indigenous peoples. Central to this competency is appreciating that there are many other cultural understandings of knowledge and ways of working that have legitimacy and deserve respect—and therefore require our continual learning and development, including direct exposure to cultural and community ways.
  It includes an eagerness to continually reflect upon and assess your own level of cultural agility and competence, self-awareness and expertise. It means being willing to learn in new and different ways and appreciating how diverse ways of thinking and acting can ensure the success of the BC Public Service in supporting Indigenous self-determination

Please refer the Job description for details