Corporate Paralegal (Vancouver, BC)

Corporate Paralegal (Vancouver, BC)

KCB is a multidisciplinary engineering, geoscience, and environmental consulting firm grounded in our values of Passion, Integrity, and Excellence. With teams across North America, South America, Australasia, and Europe, we bring together global technical knowledge, local insight, and a shared commitment to solving complex challenges that matter.

Today's challenges demand more than just technical knowledge; they require collaboration, creativity, and a deep understanding of the communities, industries, and environments that we support. At KCB, our team collaborates across regions and disciplines to bring practical thinking, technical excellence, and diverse perspectives to every project.

We are problem-solvers at heart. Our teams bring passion to complex challenges, integrity to every client relationship and excellence to the solutions we deliver for communities, industries, and future generations.

Guided by our long-term ambition of Globally Connected Excellence and our purpose of Sustaining the Future, we work alongside our clients to deliver lasting solutions that strengthen resilience and benefit future generations.

The Opportunity

Join KCB’s Corporate Legal team as a Corporate Paralegal, supporting the Corporate Secretary and Legal Department with governance processes, corporate records, regulatory compliance, and Board and Committee administration. This developmental role offers a pathway to progressively broader governance responsibilities and future Assistant Corporate Secretary and Corporate Secretary opportunities.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain minute books, resolutions, registers, legal entities, corporate records, and governance documentation.

• Coordinate Board and Committee materials, meeting logistics, calendars, minutes, action items, director onboarding, disclosures, and annual questionnaires.

• Manage corporate filings, registrations, statutory deadlines, share transactions, dividend administration, and related records across applicable jurisdictions.

• Support governance and regulatory compliance, including policies, governance frameworks, and delegation-of-authority documents.

• Assist Legal Counsel with contract administration, legal research, document preparation, precedent management, and external counsel coordination.

• Provide limited administrative support for insurance renewals, policy records, and internal insurance enquiries.

• Build effective relationships with directors, executives, regulators, auditors, external advisers, and colleagues, and contribute to governance improvement projects.

What You’ll Bring

• A paralegal diploma, bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Three to five years of corporate paralegal, governance, corporate law, or legal administration experience; internationally trained lawyers pursuing a paralegal or governance career are welcome to apply.

• Experience supporting Boards or comparable governance committees and maintaining corporate records or legal entities is an asset.

• Strong knowledge of corporate governance practices; exposure to multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements is an asset.

• Excellent writing, minute-taking, organization, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Sound judgment, discretion with confidential information, resilience, adaptability, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and related legal or governance software.

Key Relationships

Reporting to the Director, Legal / General Counsel, you will work closely with the Corporate Secretary on day-to-day governance and compliance activities and collaborate with Legal Counsel, the Board, Finance, project teams, insurance brokers, external advisers, and government registries. This role has no direct reports.

The salary for this position is $80,000 to $100,000 per year. Salary is based on applicable experience, education, and skill level.

Along with continued career development, KCB offers:

• Hybrid and remote work opportunities

• Vacation policy that aligns to your experience

• Paid OT, and sick days

• Flexible benefits, social, and mental well-being initiatives

• Commitment to global ESG standards

We are a global organization committed to employment equity. We respect the uniqueness that makes you, you. We encourage applications from all qualified career seekers, regardless of gender, sex, religion, or nationality.

To learn more about projects you could be a part of check out Projects - KCB (klohn.com) and our Careers page for more details.