PROJECT MANAGER: BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS

Benefits include: 401(k), competitive salary, dental insurance, health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and vision insurance. KENTECH Consulting Inc. is an award-winning background technology screening company. We are the creators of innovative projects such as eKnowID.com - 1st consumer background checking system of its kind, and ClarityIQ a high-tech/high-touch investigative case management system. Our mission is to help the world make clear and informed hiring decisions. To achieve our team, exhibit the behaviors and core values aligned with this mission KENTECH Core Values: Customer Focused : We are customer-focused and results-driven. Growth Minded : We believe in collaborative learning and industry best practices to deliver excellence. Fact Finders : We are passionate investigators for discovery and truth.

Community and Employeen: Partnerships : We believe there is no greater power for transformation than delivering on what communities and employees care about. As a small, agile company, we seek high performers who relish in the idea that their effort will directly impact our customers and help shape the next evolution of background investigations. Key responsibilities include serving as the main point of contact for program coordination and day-to-day communication, receiving and logging new cases, tracking progress across all active investigations, maintaining the program schedule, owning report quality and consistency, reviewing work products for completeness, accuracy, and compliance before submission, coordinating with investigators and report writers to close gaps and resolve discrepancies, maintaining organized records, status reporting, and audit-ready documentation, ensuring secure handling of sensitive information and adherence to confidentiality expectations, and supporting onboarding, training coordination, and ongoing process improvement. What success looks like includes cases being assigned quickly, tracked cleanly, and delivered on time, reports meeting standards the first time with minimal rework, the team following consistent SOPs and using the same structure and documentation rules, and stakeholders getting clear, dependable updates without chasing information.

Requirements include: 5+ years managing pre-employment background investigations for law enforcement or public safety programs, strong working knowledge of POST standards and California Government Code 1031 and 1029 (as applicable to sworn hiring), proven experience managing a multi-investigator workflow with deadlines and quality requirements, strong writing and editing skills, high attention to detail, strong judgment, and calm execution under pressure, comfortable working with sensitive PII and enforcing confidentiality standards, and strong communication, able to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and drive follow-through.

Compensation: $45.00 - $55.00 per hour. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.