Review Vacancy
TitleInvestigative Officer 2 (SIF)
Occupational CategoryOther Professional Careers
Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary RangeFrom $59108 to $74986 Annually
Minimum Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: Updated 03/09/17 – Please do not resubmit application materials if you responded to this vacancy posting prior to 03/09/17.
Promotion: One year of permanent service as an Investigative Officer 1 (SIF).
Non-competitive: an associate’s or bachelor’s degree in criminal justice or related field, or five years of insurance claims investigation experience or professional investigation experience with law enforcement agencies, or seven years of professional investigation experience involving economic or insurance related matters. Related fields include: law enforcement, police science, criminal justice administration, criminology, criminal investigation, police studies, public justice, forensic accounting, forensic psychology, forensic science, and economic crime management.
Duties Description • Assigns, plans, coordinates and monitors extensive investigations of waste, fraud and abuse by claimants, policyholders and medical care providers within assigned region.
• Develops timeline projecting the amount of time to be expended on each case and monitors progress against the projected timeline. Revises timeline as needed.
• Plans and coordinates educational seminars on fraud detection for staff.
• May, directly supervise DCI support staff and forensic accounting staff on approximately 200 new cases annually. The level of complexity of these investigations is consistent across each investigator’s caseload.
• Manages record inspection, and the obtainment of documentary evidence and photographic evidence.
• Performs supervisory review and approval of all investigations conducted by subordinate investigators prior to presentation to a prosecutor.
• Coordinates the presentation of cases to prosecutors, taking a more active role in high-level and complex investigations.
• Reviews all fraud referrals from NYSIF business offices and departments before assigning to staff for an investigation.
Additional Comments Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
You must be a resident of New York State or be willing to relocate.
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