Grants Management Specialist - Washington, United States - Vision Planning and Consulting

Description

Position Description:


Responsibilities:

Duties are extremely broad in scope and the position involves a variety of planning, administrative, technical, organizational, and project coordination-related tasks related to a large number of diverse projects.

• Review grant proposals for completeness and compliance and write exception letters as or when needed.
• Evaluates terms and conditions of grants/assistance awards to include costs, schedules, and oversight responsibilities.
• Serves a liaison with external customers, recipients, and awardee community to clarify, interpret, and resolve issues.
• Represents the client in grant administration matters.
• Monitors, assesses, and ensures compliance with all terms and conditions of award.
• Provides recommendations to program managers regarding grant assistance policies, procedures, and practices.
• Provides technical assistance, oversight, expertise, and consultation to program officials, awardees, applicants, recipients, and subrecipients as needed.
• Review and reconcile grant expenditures to ensure compliance with funding allocations and financial reporting.
• Review and cooperative agreements and incoming subawards and maintain documentation of all reporting deadlines and requirements.
• Performs administrative and analytical work for discretionary grants, cooperative agreements, and mandatory grants.
• Facilitates modifications to terms and conditions of grants/assistance awards to include costs, schedules, and scope of projects.
• Performs the administrative functions such as termination or closeout of grants and/or grants assistance and agreement awards.
• Reviews and processes quarterly, semiannual, and annual reports submitted by grantees.
• Applies grant and Federal assistance regulations, policies, procedures, and practices for the daily maintenance of the clients grant portfolio.
• Support departmental projects/activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• At least five years' experience in grants administration, with a background in transportation grants preferred.
• Some familiarity with generally accepted accounting principles, as well as public finance and budgeting.
• Some familiarity with legal principles of negotiation is preferred.
• Must be detailoriented, well organized, and able to handle multiple projects in a deadline driven environment.
• Must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to handle ambiguity and exercise independent judgment.
• Must be a fast learner and able to work independently after initial instruction.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team, and willing to travel to various professional meetings and conferences.

Employment Classification:

This is a full-time staff position.

The position includes compensation that is competitive in the private market, with an excellent benefits package including:
paid time off, health and dental insurance, disability, and life insurance.


Pay:
$50, $70,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Do you reside in the Maryland/DC/NoVa Metropolitan Area and can reliably report to client offices as necessary?

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Washington, DC