Covert Surveillance Investigator - Part Time

JOB PURPOSE

Conduct covert field surveillance, emphasizing worker’s compensation fraud and insurance fraud.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct covert field surveillance via both stationary and mobile surveillance.
• Obtain professional quality video and photographic documentation of subjects.
• Prepare and file comprehensive investigative reports using the information that was collected from surveillance investigations.
• Upload video, photographs, audio files, and documents into case management system.
• Conduct scene investigations, interviews, recorded statements, etc.
• Prepare written and recorded Statements from in person interviews.
• Provide legal testimony.
• Other duties as assigned

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 2-years’ experience working as a licensed private investigator, performing field surveillance in workers compensation and insurance liability investigations.
• Ability to conduct covert field surveillance assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports.
• Ability to provide legal depositions and testimony.
• Ability to gather and organize evidence.
• Ability to investigate and analyze information.
• Knowledge of legal documentation procedures and requirements.

LICENSES /CERTIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

• Valid state-issued driver’s license.
• Current auto insurance.
• Possess or able to obtain an Investigator license in the state where work is performed.

REQUIRED EQUIPMENT

• A reliable vehicle.
• Smartphone with access to app store. Android OS7 or higher, Apple iOS 11 or higher.
• Laptop computer with Microsoft Word, Windows, and wireless Internet connection.
• Digital video camera with upload capability and accurate time and date stamp.
• Covert camera.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• As an hourly, non-exempt status employee, your job may require extended work hours and significant work travel. This includes occasional overnight travel, weekend and/or evening work, and working on holidays.
• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee must frequently stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work involves individuals staying sitting/sedentary for long periods of time.
• Work involves moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, exposure to the sun, and various days and hours of scheduled work.