Fraud Program Investigator Administrator

Introduction

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than one million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults.

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than one million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults. We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve.

At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind.

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Baltimore City Department of Human Services Office of the Inspector General 1525 N. Calvert Street, 7th Floor Baltimore, MD 21201

This is the primary position for the Bureau of Investigative Services Unit (BIS) in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This position conducts reviews, examinations and investigations in order to objectively monitor, verify, and analyze allotment of State and federal funds disbursed through Department of Human Services (DHS). It is a key resource for ensuring department financial integrity with regard to preventing and investigating fraud and other misconduct against DHR.

By protecting DHR programs that must be free of financial and other types of abuse, the position also contributes to ensuring DHR customers achieve independence. This assists the OIG’s mission to protect the integrity of the DHR and to detect, deter and reduce financial loss to the State.

• Employees who are willing and able to travel statewide.
• Receiving cases of suspected fraud in programs such as but not limited to Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Temporary.
• Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) Medical Assistance (MA) Child Support (CS) Foster Care (FC) Public Assistance to Adults (PAA) Office of Home Energy Program (OHEP) Welfare Avoidance Grants (WAGs) Energy Assistance (EA).
• Analyzing and interpreting program policies and procedures within DHR to assure payment accuracy, and compliance with appropriate federal and state laws.
• Analyzing disbursements related to suspected fraud, including, but not limited to programs administered by Family Investment Administration (FIA), Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA), Social Services Administration (SSA), Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH).
• Analyzing allegations of misconduct to assure any misuse of State Funds and other resources is resolved.
• Reviewing management referrals to improve timely resolution of fraud cases.
• Researching records, and gathering/preserving documentary evidence.
• Reviewing/verifying/analyzing the documentation of the reviewed entity.
• Performing quality control evaluations reviews/examinations/investigations by conducting on-site field interviews of complainants, witnesses, representatives of businesses, State, federal, and county government, and professionals from legal, medical, and financial institutions.
• Interviewing customers, employees, and contractors who may have knowledge of fraudulent eligibility practices and other activities.

Applicants must meet all minimum (and selective) qualifications to be considered, and to appear on the list of people eligible for hire. Please read all requirements before applying.

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…