Investigator 4 (PCN 031312)

State of Alaska • Anchorage, AK

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Law, Criminal Division is recruiting for an Investigator 4 in Anchorage! This position is open to Alaska Residents only. The Department of Law, Criminal Division is recruiting for an Investigator 4 in Anchorage! This position is open to Alaska Residents only. You will be responsible for the effective management and training of five investigators within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. You will establish and maintain procedural guidelines that ensure adherence to standards of professional conduct and federal grant requirements. You will monitor investigations by examining case progression, quality, thoroughness and completeness. You will establish and maintain professional relationships with federal and state law enforcement as well as federal and state agencies responsible for health care administration and oversight. You will be responsible for all aspects of an investigation including evidence collection and its chain of custody, writing and executing search warrants, writing reports and testifying in court. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is located at 310 K Street, Ste. 308. The Unit has a collaborative team of 6 investigators, 3 attorneys, a forensic account, paralegal and law office assistant. As an MFCU investigator, your work directly protects vulnerable Alaskans and ensures Medicaid resources go to providers who deliver safe, ethical care. You will handle complex cases involving healthcare fraud, patient abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation. The work will provide you opporunities to collaborate with attorneys, auditors, medical professionals, and federal partners such as HHS-OIG or DOJ.

Requirements

• Competency in Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
• Competency in Investigation: Knowledge of the guidelines, regulations, and procedures associated with investigation, including interviewing, evidence detection, locating, gathering, and handling, and drawing appropriate factual inferences and conclusions. Provide oral or written reports of findings. Presenting evidence and providing testimony.
• Competency in Law: Knowledge of State and federal laws, including legal and court procedures, regulations, guidelines, precedents, admissibility of evidence, case preparation, and/or settlements for applicable areas of law practiced or supported.
• Competency in Managing Performance: Takes responsibility for employees’ performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable, tracking progress against the goals, supporting employees’ efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources, removing obstacles, acting as a buffer, etc.), ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
• Competency in Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible investigative work experience performing duties such as locating and gathering information, evidence and/or testimony to be used in civil or criminal proceedings, administrative actions, or governmentally regulated activities which included preparing reports in support of attorneys or agencies engaged in administrative adjudication, and/or detecting and verify suspected fraud, licensing violations, and other violations of state law.
• Must maintain the strictest of confidences with information they will be exposed to and have access to.
• Ability to tolerate some exposure to graphic pictures, coarse language, and detailed descriptions of sometimes horrific criminal acts.
• Must disclose all prior state employment.
• Must provide copies of all performance evaluations received for the last two years, or a written statement explaining why they were not available, or two letters of professional reference.
• Must provide a technical or professional writing sample, not to exceed 5 pages.
• Must answer supplemental questions.
• Background check and fingerprinting will be required.
• Must obtain APSIN access.

Nice To Haves

• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
• Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately elected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote),discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Effective management and training of five investigators within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
• Establish and maintain procedural guidelines that ensure adherence to standards of professional conduct and federal grant requirements.
• Monitor investigations by examining case progression, quality, thoroughness and completeness.
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with federal and state law enforcement as well as federal and state agencies responsible for health care administration and oversight.
• Responsible for all aspects of an investigation including evidence collection and its chain of custody, writing and executing search warrants, writing reports and testifying in court.

Benefits

• 40 hour work week
• 12 paid holidays
• Personal leave accrual starting at 6 hours per pay period (about 21 days annually), increasing with years of service.
• Flexibility in establishing regular hours around core business hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed