Investigator 4 (PCN 031312)

State of Alaska; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 86,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Alaska seeks an Investigator 4 in Anchorage to lead and train a team of five investigators within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, ensuring adherence to standards and grant requirements.

You will manage investigations from case progression to evidence collection, write reports, and testify in court, collaborating with federal and state partners to protect program integrity.

Qualifications

• Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct.
• Investigation: Knowledge of guidelines, regulations, and procedures for investigation, including interviewing, evidence gathering, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and train a team of five investigators within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
• Establish and maintain procedural guidelines ensuring standards of conduct and grant compliance.
• Monitor investigations for case progression, quality, thoroughness and completeness.
• Build professional relationships with federal and state law enforcement and health care agencies.
• Oversee all aspects of investigations including evidence collection, chain of custody, warrants, reports, and court testimony.

Skills

Decision Making

Organizational Awareness

Supervision

Job description

Investigator 4 (PCN 031312) – Anchorage, AK

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

• 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.

Mission and Values/Culture

Our mission is to seek justice, promote public safety and public respect for government through prompt, effective, and compassionate prosecution of cases in a matter that advocates for the interests of the victims, respects the law enforcement agencies, responsibly stewards public resources, and holds offenders accountable while at the same time protecting the constitutional and legal rights of the accused.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

You can expect a 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. The general office hours are 8:00AM to 4:30PM but there is flexibility in establishing your regular hours around core business hours.

Working Environment

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 accountant, 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 opportunities to collaborate with attorneys, auditors, medical professionals, and federal partners such as HHS-OIG or DOJ.

Who We Are Looking For

• 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 selected, 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.

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.

EEO Statement

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal‑opportunity employer.