Investigator

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 75061
Ministry: Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction
Location: Calgary
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary (2 year term)
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: September 21, 2025
Classification: Program Services 3 Market Adjustment

**Salary**: $2,626.89 to $3448.73 bi-weekly ($68,561.83 - $90,011.85/year)

Every Service Albertan strives to enable the success of our Ministry partners and Albertans through providing exceptional client-focused services that meet and exceed our clients’ expectations.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The Government of Alberta’s Health Investigations Unit (HIU) is the sole criminal investigative body responsible for protecting Alberta’s $5.2 billion physician compensation fund. With province-wide jurisdiction, the HIU leads complex criminal investigations into fraudulent physician billing practices.

We are currently seeking a dedicated and skilled Investigator to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying emerging trends, issues, and opportunities related to investigative techniques and approaches. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders across Alberta Health, law enforcement agencies, and other partner organizations to carry out comprehensive and complex investigations.

In this role, you will be supporting the Manager and Senior Investigators in the Health Investigations Unit (HIU) in several key aspects. You will be responsible for the thorough and secure disclosure of health records and assisting in several key aspects with complaints or offences associated with fraud-based offences of the Criminal Code. As the HIU files move from investigation into prosecution, you will ensure that all records are appropriately organized, stored, vetted and disclosed.

A key component of this position is the day-to-day management of the HIU investigative platform X-Fire and is one of two X-Fire administrators within HIU. This oversees configuration, file transfer and training and collaboration with other GoA agencies that are also using X-Fire.

As an Investigator, you will provide input to the development and continual enhancement of policies, systems and procedures for the HIU investigation program that is designed to support Service Alberta and Alberta Health. This position is a senior resource and liaison for law enforcement agencies and stakeholders and is relied upon to promote awareness of HIU’s programs and capabilities.

In this position, you will also be responsible for the management of placement students and any temporary staff within HIU. This includes the assignment, teaching, monitoring and correction of their submitted work and their subsequent evaluations.

The Investigator functions within the parameters of applicable Government and Ministry legislation, regulations, policies, directives and procedures. This position requires independent functioning, analyzing, modification and decision-making regarding current processes in several areas including:

- Investigations
- Disclosure
- Policies, programs and initiatives oversight.
- Comprehensive consultation and partnerships
- Providing comprehensive consultation and partnerships.
- Supporting the Manager of HIU and the Director of Audit and Investigations in achieving the Ministry goals.

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**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

- **Systems Thinking -**Understands how your work contributes to the achievement of department goals by reviewing and prioritizing incoming files and completing investigations in a timely manner using appropriate techniques to gather and secure evidence.
- **Agility -**Taking advantage of opportunities to change how work is done to better anticipate obstacles and improve service. In this role, you will provide input to the development and revision of legislation, regulations and policies pertaining to the investigation program, identifying emergent issues and making recommendations to management; researches and recommends the acquisition of new systems, technologies and equipment to senior decision makers.
- **Develop Networks -**Identifies key stakeholder contacts in the organization with whom a relationship must be established. The investigator will cooperate and collaborate with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies, such as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) and the Alberta College of Pharmacy (ACP) in relation to investigations and assists other jurisdictions with investigations as needed.
- **Build Collaborative Environments -** Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaborative