Community Engagement Eligibility Specialist

Job title: Community Engagement Eligibility Specialist
Start Date: April 13 2026
End Date: April 2028
Location: DHHS Office/Location Office for Family Independence (OFI) Augusta ME 04333

• The positions will provide critical support to OFIs Community Engagement (Client) eligibility function and outreach.
• Those functions will include navigating various state systems to do data entry and analysis and correspond with clients in writing and on the phone as needed.
• The main purpose is to ensure compliance with PL 119-21 establishing Client requirements for Medicaid expansion enrollees with approximately 85000 MaineCare (MC) members subject to these requirements. These resources will process MC updates and provide outreach to increase the number of people who can be passively renewed for MaineCare decreasing the overall workload for OFI Eligibility Specialists with a goal of meeting federal Client requirements by January 1 2027. Additionally OFI looks to ensure individuals remain in compliance and minimize administrative burden on members

• Specific qualifications needed to perform the job including necessary licenses knowledge skills education experience training and technical skills.
• Competency in applying a solid knowledge of the principles and practices of quality customer service to perform complex work in assisting the public with applications fees examinations or social services that have an eligibility or compliance component
• The ability to use independent decision-making on the appropriate processes to follow information to process and actions to take in accordance with standard procedures
• Skilled in Microsoft Office suite of programs
• Skilled in telephone communication with clients/the public and using telephony system

• Specific duties required of the resource as well as any expected deliverables including necessary travel expectations.
• Work MC case updates; to include data entry in the OFI eligibility systems; applying relevant program policies to specific case circumstances and identifying and requesting verifications
• Updating client information in Automated Client Eligibility System (ACES) including outreach by phone or otherwise
• Fielding and/or conducting phone calls to/from the public to answer basic questions provide information about case status or triage to eligibility specialists if needed
• Additional MC eligibility work that supports Client readiness

• Summary of work schedule including normal working hours on-call expectations allowed time off (which is non-billable) ability to work remote.
• This will be a fully remote full-time role with hours expectations aligning with Department staff eight working hours on a set schedule that can start as early as
• 7:00 a.m. and go until no later than 5:00 p.m. with 30 or 60 minutes for lunch.
• This is a 40-hour per week position and no overtime will be permitted.

Required Experience:

IC