Grants Coordinator - Cleveland, United States - Northeast Ohio Areawide Agency

Description

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) is a regional planning agency.

As the region's Metropolitan Planning Organization and Areawide Water Quality Management Agency, NOACA conducts transportation and environmental planning for a five-county region that is home to 2.1 million people and includes the counties of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina.

This position manages all external grant activity for the agency. This includes internal oversight of federal, state, and other grants typically awarded through the United States Department of Transportation (U.S.

D.O.T.) agencies, United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Ohio Department of Transportation (O.D.O.T), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and foundations.

This position is responsible for maintaining and tracking project budgets and expenditures, and ensuring funds are spent in compliance with program requirements.

Other duties include preparing and submitting monthly, quarterly or final reports to the authorizing agency, and processing invoices as needed, in

accordance with accounting standards and requirements.

This position may also perform grant writing and other duties to support the organization, including researching and relaying information to staff on potential funding opportunities.

Periodically this position will prepare internal status reports.
Duties


and Responsibilities:
Develop, review, and process program agreements and contracts
Ensure compliance with grant program requirements by helping to

establish, monitor, and enforce internal controls
Review, inform, and oversee invoicing processes in alignment with

relevant federal, state, local, and NOACA regulatory requirements
Ensure that financial information is adequate for the needs of the

budget office
Provide grant financial information as needed to other divisions
Prepare, review, and submit reports/documents/records as required by

grant program requirements
Support agency grant-writing efforts
Make sound decisions in a timely manner and resolve difficult

problems with effective solutions, exercising discretion and independent

judgment with respect to matters of agency significance
Coordinate with agency staff who have responsibilities to carry out

grant-funded project scopes
Prepare and review reports/documents/records/budgets/expenditures
Oversee the administration

of grant

activities, including supporting decision making in determining staff roles

and responsibilities as they pertain to grant activities
Provide information to external auditors for

the annual audit and federal quadrennial review
Oversee grant accounting and invoicing, and

approve authorized invoices in a timely manner
Maintain an orderly recordkeeping

filing system
Ensure that monthly or quarterly reports are

completed per requirements of funding programs
Conduct any required project monitoring
Maintain contact

withgrantors and coordinate with

them as needed to ensure that projects are completed on budget and on

time as best as possible
Participate in and

contribute to development of the annual Overall Work Program and budget

process
Bachelor's Degree in accounting, finance or related field, plus ten years of relevant

experience.

Master's Degree may be substituted for one year of experience.

Strong research and data analysis skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong organizational skillls
Proven management and leadership capabilities
Must be authorized to work in the United States

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