Grants Management Specialist

For Series 1109 - GS-13:

• Serves as key expert liaison and technical advisor to senior level agency officials and managers on federal assistance (grants management) objectives policies and plans.
• Analyzes and evaluates compliance and completeness of Statements of Work proposed annual plans which are subsequently incorporated in official grant award documents.
• Has grant management responsibility for one or several major grant programs within the Agency (Dislocated Workers Indian Farmworkers Older Workers formula grants to states discretionary grants cooperative and interagency agreements); oversees and manages the designation process for special targeted program grants and/or grant award
  and funding process for formula and discretionary grants to states and keeps the Grant Officer informed of all developments.
• Develops procurement and assistance objectives for applicable programs in compliance with governing regulations and procurement and assistance standards; constructs the appropriate grant instrument including funding arrangements incremental and/or subcontracting policy and similar circumstances.
• Prepares and maintains current federal assistance plans appropriate milestone charts and related schedules (scores applicant information etc.) and solicitation documents; performs detailed analyses of all elements of cost in grantee
  proposals as well as technical information (industries scores geography of services etc.).
• Provides guidance to program officials fellow grants management specialists grant applicants and recipients in the interpretation application and implementation of applicable laws and regulations policies procedures pertaining to all aspects of federal assistance program activities e.g. grants cooperative and interagency agreement planning and solicitation through program administration expiration and closeout etc.

• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.

For GS-13: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-12 in the Federal Service.

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge skills and abilities (KSAs) to perform the duties of the position successfully and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

• Serving as a lead/expert in implementing and managing workforce development grant/cooperative agreement programs by providing grants-related assistance and services. (Examples include but not limited to: Primary contact for a grant program Building new grant awards in an electronic grant making system review and make grant action recommendations to the Grant Officer and review and process modifications.)
• Experience performing administration tasks for workforce development grant/cooperative agreement programs. (Examples include but not limited to: Completing grant close-out processes following an agency developed closeout manual/handbook preparing final assessments of compliance with statutory and agency requirements using 2 CFR 200 and 2900 and/or performing financial and accounting reconciliation and resolution of any adverse audit findings.)
• Experience performing pre-award tasks for workforce development grant/cooperative agreement programs. (Examples include but not limited to: Serving as a deliberation specialist providing input for grant solicitations and/or making recommendations to the Grant Officer for awards serving as the lead in a grant solicitation.)