Administrator I

State of Maryland • Baltimore City, MD

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Maryland’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program ensures all workers in Maryland have paid time off for medical and family reasons. FAMLI is a social insurance system covering 2.6 million workers and 180,000 employers, delivered as a digitally native, public-facing service. The Standards and Audit’s Unit (SAU) focuses on Employers and their compliance with the Maryland Department of Labor Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Regulations. As a Standards and Audits Unit Risk Specialist, this position will work closely with other divisions within FAMLI to uphold program integrity, support ethical practices, provide programmatic support to employers, document findings and report those findings to the appropriate channel. The Employer Services Risk Specialist within the Division of Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) at the Maryland Department of Labor (MDOL) is a role whose purpose is to safeguard the integrity and financial health of the FAMLI program through proactive risk management, analysis, and compliance. The Employer Services Risk Specialist shall identify and investigate potential risks and issues. This role is critical to FAMLI’s mission, leading efforts to ensure long-term sustainability, accountability, and responsible stewardship of public resources.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
• Four years of administrative staff or professional work.
• Candidates may substitute 30 college credit hours from an accredited college or university for each year up to four years of the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university for the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute the possession of a Master's degree from an accredited college or university for the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer involving staff work related to the administration of rules, regulations, policy, procedures and processes, or overseeing or coordinating unit operations or functioning as a staff assistant to a higher ranking commissioned officer on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Nice To Haves

• Professional compliance experience
• Experience performing data analysis and report writing

Responsibilities

• Query and analyze production data to identify compliance anomalies, irregular patterns, and potential risks to program sustainability
• Review and evaluate referrals to determine the need for additional research
• Review financial records, complex legal and regulatory documents and summarize contents, and conduct research as needed
• Proactively identify anomalies and recommend enhanced checks
• Monitor and analyze data reports to identify anomalies
• Research and evaluate possible unauthorized account information
• Researches potential compliance risks and irregularities
• Escalates complex high-risk cases
• Collaborate with partners to analyze account activity and financial transactions for case documentation
• Prepare report and findings to support compliance remediation, oversight, and program sustainability
• Acts as a liaison between FAMLI, employers, and their representatives, maintaining records of all compliance communications
• Performs other related duties as required to support the mission of FAMLI and MD Dept. of Labor

Benefits

• Flexible hours and hybrid teleworking
• Paid holidays 12-13 per year
• Generous paid leave package (annual, sick, personal and compensatory leave)
• State Pension ("defined benefit" plan)
• Tax-deferred supplemental retirement savings plans (401(k) and 457)
• Comprehensive, subsidized health, dental and prescription plans with little to no deductibles, free generic prescriptions, and free preventative health services
• Flexible Spending Account plans for Health Care and Daycare
• State Employees Credit Union

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED