Grants and Contracts Manager (Internal Hennepin County applicants only)

Hennepin County, MN - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 79945 - 126905

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

The Behavioral Health (BH) area of Health and Human Services is seeking a Grants and Contract Manager who is a strategic leader to develop implement and manage the areas grant and contract this position you will work with finance and contract service areas to create a sustainable structure for the areas $60 million in public aid and 200 contracts and creating efficiencies for BH program leaders staff and residents. You will be responsible for recommending and developing approaches that leverage funding partnerships and opportunities to maximize resident services in a sustainable way for the organization. As a leader in the BH Policy Planning and Analytics (PPA) area you will have opportunities to lead with both relationships and technical skills.

Location and hours:

This position is hybrid and will be performed both on-site at various Hennepin County locations and remote as job duties require. Work hours will be Monday through Friday with typical hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. While this position is designated as hybrid based on current requirements hires must reside in or relocate to Minnesota or Wisconsin.

About the position type:

This is a full-time benefit earning position. You must be acurrent regular or probationary employee

This position is internally classified as an Administrative Assistant Principal.
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In this position you will:

Engage and facilitate finance partners contract management service partners BH program staff and community organizations to recommend implement and manage a grant funding and contract management infrastructure for BH.
Oversee grant and contract coordination monitoring and reporting.
Work with PPA leadership peers to leverage data reporting functionality engagement of community and local collaboratives.
Provide analysis of the current and future funding and contracting environment and outlining strategies for moving forward.
Serve as a member of the BH PPA leadership team engaging in the overall development and supporting efforts of the PPA area.
Supervise grant administrative staff to operationalize funding and contract infrastructure.
Provide leadership and guidance to project managers and data analysts by supporting the grants and contracts management infrastructure.
Develop and manage contracting and grant management roles and responsibilities with external partners and providers and Hennepin County partners providers and internal BH roles.
Research analyze and interpret county state and federal grants management policies and procedures.

Need to have:

One of the following:
- Nine or more years of experience in *general administrative work relating to the management of departmental/organizational operations or in a specialty area appropriate to the position.
- Bachelors degree or higher in business administration public administration or another field appropriate to the position and five or more years of experience in *general administrative work relating to the management of departmental/organizational operations or in a specialty area appropriate to the position.

*General administrative work is defined as the administration and/or management of programs policies and/or budgets.

Nice to have:

Experience:
- Developing programs and strategic approaches to leverage resources and create efficiencies.
- Leading managing and/or supervising a team.
- Leading and engaging in disparity elimination approaches within administrative functions.
- Practicing and shifting leadership and partnership approaches to engage staff and partners in a learning and growth environment.
- Managing contracts from service design to execution and accountability.
- Designing and managing public funded human services grant programming by demonstrating the ability to understand county state and federal grants management policies and procedures.
- Utilizing community engagement and disparity elimination strategies to inform business decisions and approaches.
- Engaging teams with effective writing communication and human relations skills to foster collaborative relationships with colleagues partners and customer groups.
- Analyzing data to develop policy and program recommendations identify alternative solutions to complex issues and communicate to diverse audiences.
Knowledge of:
- Public-funded human services and public health funding streams and policies.
- Leadership approaches for engaging various staff community members and partners.
- Hennepin County finance contracts disparity elimination community engagement and data analytics systems.
- Grant funding processes and strategies for braiding and blending available funding.
Ability to:
- Communicate complex information to a variety of audiences.
- Identify and recommend opportunities for leveraging and maximizing available resources.
- Apply research interpret applicable regulations and laws and synthesize community feedback to clarify complex and ambiguous problems to create a course of action.
- Continuously expand knowledge of tools and techniques and developing strategies for adjusting in a shifting environment.
- Build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds perspectives and experiences and work with partners to identify program objectives.
- Implement complex projects involving multiple programs and stakeholders.
- Sponsor and/or oversee projects and follow up and follow through to completion.
- Create foundational structure accounting for complex steps.

About the department:
Human Services delivers a variety of services to individuals or families that assist with basic needs or encourage client change around specific work with individuals as well as systems and communities in order to develop policy and advocate for the people we people we serve and our communities are connected. By helping one we help the other.

About Hennepin County:
Hennepin is the largest county government organization in Minnesota. Our employees work every day to improve the health safety and quality of life for our residents and communities. All of our jobs align with our mission to serve residents through transformative services thateliminatedisparities eliminate inequities and create opportunity for all and our vision of a community where all people are healthy all people are valued and all people thrive.

Our employees receive a combination of competitive benefits and positive workplace culture not found at other organizations. This includes meaningful work that impacts our community competitive pay work-life balance a variety of benefits and opportunities to grow. Learn more at The Bridge(login as Guest).

Hennepin County envisions an organization where our commitment to diversity and theeliminationof disparities is fundamental in providing excellent service to our community.

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Invitations to interview will be based upon an assessment of education and experience. Final candidates may be required to complete a background check.

If you have any questions please contact:

Taylor Dahlberg

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DescriptionThe Behavioral Health (BH) area of Health and Human Services is seeking a Grants and Contract Manager who is a strategic leader to develop implement and manage the areas grant and contract this position you will work with finance and contract service areas to create a sustainable structu...