Forensic Investigator | MDH Office of Chief Medical Examiner
Recruitment #25-000221-0001
Department MDH Ofc of Chief Med Examiner
Filing Deadline 12/26/2025 11:59:00 PM
Salary $51,580.00 - $65,482.00/year, with potential growth to $79,673.00/year
Employment Type Full-Time
Work Location Baltimore City
Department MDH Ofc of Chief Med Examiner
Filing Deadline 12/26/2025 11:59:00 PM
Salary $51,580.00 - $65,482.00/year, with potential growth to $79,673.00/year
Employment Type Full-Time
Work Location Baltimore City
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB
The main purpose of this position will be to conduct investigations of cases that are referred to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
This position will conduct investigations to include:
- Screening cases;
- Gathering information;
- Conducting examinations of the human body at the location of the incident; and/or,
- Producing an investigation report that will assist the Forensic Pathologist in the determination of cause and manner of death.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Experience: Three years of experience investigating the circumstances of death at death scene incidents.
Notes:
- Candidates may substitute the possession of an Associate of Arts degree in Health Sciences, Police Science, or Forensics from an accredited college or university and one year of experience investigating the circumstances of death at death scene incidents for the required experience.
- Candidates may substitute experience assisting in the autopsies of human corpses on a month-for-month basis for a maximum of six months of the required experience.
- Candidates may substitute one year of experience as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the required experience.
- Candidates may substitute college internships, conferences, and seminar education in forensics, death investigation, and trauma of forty (40) hours for an equivalency of three months, for a maximum of one year of the required experience.
- Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a non-commissioned officer in Criminal Investigation classifications or Criminal Investigation specialty codes in the Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, and Compliance field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
