OHS Investigator VI

To qualify, you must meet all of the following requirements:
A. Knowledge:

• Graduation from a U.S. law enforcement academy
• Clear understanding of the Intelligence cycle/process; intelligence-led policing
• Criminal and Intelligence investigations management
• Understanding of 28-CFR-23 and CR/CL
• Understanding of and/or experience with implementing and managing case management or records management systems
• Experience with criminal court procedures and testimony
• Interviewing methods and techniques
• The jurisdiction and functions of various governmental agencies and departments
• Principles and practices of supervision
• Laws and precedents concerning search, seizure, and arrest

B. Skills/ Abilities:

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across diverse stakeholder groups
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Interprets laws, rules, and regulations
• Analyze and solve law enforcement problems
• Analyze and interpret data
• Prepare case records
• Understand the psychology of human behavior
• Instruct and advise other in the performance of investigative tasks

C. Educations:

• Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a bachelor’s degree.

Excess work experience as described under the Specialized Experience, below, or any other responsible administrative, professional or analytical work experience that provide such knowledge, skills, and abilities comparable to those acquired in four (4) years of successful study while completing a college or university curriculum leading to a baccalaureate degree may be substituted on a year-for-year basis. To be acceptable, the experience much has been such scope, level, and quality as to assure the possession of comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities.

D. Experience:

Specialized Experience
Four and a half (4 ½) years of progressively responsible professions investigative experience which demonstrated: (1) initiative, resourcefulness, judgment require to collect, assemble, develop facts and other pertinent data; (2) ability to think logically and objectively, to analyze and evaluate facts, evidence and relation information, and arrive at sound conclusions; (3) skill in preparing written and oral reports and presenting investigative findings in a clear and concise manner and (4) tact, discretion, and capacity for obtaining the cooperation and confidence of others.

For the Investigator VI level, at least one (1) year of experience must have been comparable to the Investigator V level, or two (2) years must have been comparable to the Investigator IV level in the State service.

Supervisory Aptitude
Investigator VI positions must possess supervisory aptitude. Supervisory aptitude is the demonstration of aptitude or potential for the performance of supervisory duties though successful completion f regular assignments which involve some supervisory responsibilities or aspects of supervision, e.g., by serving as a group or team leader or in similar work in which opportunities for demonstrating supervisory capabilities exist; or by the completion of training courses in supervision accompanied by application of supervisory skills in work assignments and/or favorable appraisals by a supervisor indicating the possession of supervisory potential.
Administrative Aptitude
Applicants for Investigator VI positions must possess administrative aptitude. Administrative aptitude will be considered to have been met when there is strong affirmative evidence of the necessary administrative aptitudes and abilities. Such evidence may be in the form of success in regular or special assignments or projects which involved administrative problems (e.g. in planning, organizing, promotion and directing a program, including policy and budgetary considerations; and/or providing staff advice and assistance in such matters); interest in administration demonstrated by the performance of work assignments in a manner which clearly indicates awareness of administrative problems and the ability to solve them; completion of educational or training courses in the area of administration accompanied by the application of the principles, which were learned to work assignments; management’s observation and evaluation of the applicant’s leadership and administrative capabilities; success in trial assignments to managerial and/or administrative tasks.

E. Required Licenses, Certificates, etc.:

• Must meet current State and Federal Gun Control Act [Title 18, United States Code, Section 922 (g)(9)], requirements applicable to the possession and use of firearms.
• Incumbent must be able to qualify with a departmentally authorized handgun on a biannual basis.
• A valid license to drive in the State of Hawaii is required.
• Proof of successful completion of a United States law enforcement training course.
• Must be a citizen of the United States to be able to go through the process of obtaining and maintaining a security clearance.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a SECRET or TOP-SECRET security clearance issued by the United States Government. Failure to obtain or maintain the required level of security clearance during the initial probationary period and maintain required security clearance during the entire length of employment may result in loss of employment or a transfer to another position.