This position is located in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). OVC's mission is to enhance the Nation's capacity to assist crime victims and to provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. The OVC is one of six components with grant-making authority within OJP, U.S. Department of Justice.

Duties

Serves as a technical expert in grants and/or cooperative agreement management processes, providing advice and guidance to resolve, implement, or manage issues that involve major areas of uncertainty in approach or methodology. Serves as a liaison to OVC stakeholders in the area of grant management to promote practices that are compliant with applicable statutes, regulations, best practices, specific program emphases, and other organizational objectives. Serves as a technical expert in the evaluation of applications for complex discretionary and/or formula grants and/or agreements that contain a number of different processes or sub-grant elements, such as comprehensive grant solicitations that will require extensive grant administration work in that the grant will run several years, and data will be collected from multiple sites. Oversees programs or grants related to crime victims' rights and services with full responsibility for carrying out all required monitoring and management duties. Discusses the proposed changes with the grantee, suggests effective modifications, and recommends action on the changes to higher management. Plans and manages special projects for OVC or program issues with broad impact, such as those on an OVC or nation-wide level that ultimately result in advances for the crime victims' field. Conceives and implements new initiatives and projects to strengthen, facilitate, and integrate programs. Undertakes or participates in special projects, ongoing analyses, investigations and initiatives that have high priority for high-level management of projects that identify and resolve complex issues related to crime victims' rights and services. of rights and services to crime victims.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Subject to background/suitability investigation/determination.
• Federal payments are required to be made by Direct Deposit.
• Requires registration for the Selective Service. Visit www.sss.gov.
• Pre-employment drug testing required.
• 1-year probationary period may be required.
• Confidential Financial Disclosure may be required
• Security Requirements: Non-Sensitive/Moderate Risk

Qualifications

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower level. Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To qualify at the GS-09 level, specialized experience must be at the GS-07 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Specialized experience is defined as: Specialized experience is defined as: assisting in researching and analyzing established or simple grant management program issues; acting as liaison with individuals and groups both inside and outside an organization regarding routine grant management program matters; and/or assisting in program support activities, such as monitoring, reviewing, and tracking automated systems for incoming grants, grantee reports, and other documentation. -OR- Two (2) full academic years of graduate level education or the successful completion of a master's degree. or LL.M., if related. -OR- Equivalent combinations of education and experience, as described above. To qualify at the GS-11 level, specialized experience must be at the GS-09 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Specialized experience is defined as: Specialized experience is defined as: Assist with monitoring conventional grant and/or cooperative agreements, such as grants awarded under established programs or awards to long-standing grantees, to ensure compliance with award provisions and to track performance trends; assist with conducting risk assessments and business reviews and developing recommendations for resolving issues encountered in administering grants/agreements; performing work in the pre-award process for grant agreements in areas such as reviewing applications for completeness and responsiveness to requirements; and/or preparing, processing, issuing, and tracking grants/assistance awards -OR- Three (3) full academic years of graduate level education or the successful completion of a Ph.D. or LL.M., if related. -OR- Equivalent combinations of education and experience, as described above. To qualify at the GS-12 level, specialized experience must be at the GS-11 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Specialized experience is: Managing and monitoring conventional grant and/or cooperative agreements, such as grants awarded under established programs or awards to long-standing grantees, to ensure compliance with award provisions and to track performance trends; conducting risk assessments and business reviews and developing recommendations for resolving issues encountered in administering grants/agreements; performing work in the pre-award process for grant agreements in areas such as reviewing applications for completeness and responsiveness to requirements; identifying opportunities to improve individual grant recipient's grant compliance with grant provisions, communicating findings to grant recipients, and tracking issue resolution; and communicating new or complex grant program or policy requirements to grant award recipients to promote improved programmatic performance. To qualify at the GS-13 level, specialized experience must be at the GS-12 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Managing and monitoring complex grants and/or cooperative agreement awarded through a diverse program portfolio for compliance with regulatory, policy, and reporting requirements, such as auditing awardee cost and pricing data that required an analysis of interrelated grantee operational issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity; using advanced risk assessments techniques to identify and resolve complex grant and/or cooperative agreement administration problems or potential compliance findings with unusual or unresolved issues requiring the provision of substantial technical assistance or the development of new processes; performing work in the pre-award process for complex cooperative agreements and/or grants within a technical field or specialized industry, such as developing grant solicitations to national, state, local, and tribal entities to improve the functioning of their criminal justice system where data was collected from multiple sites; identifying methods of improving grant programs or process that enhanced grantee compliance or performance across a program or portfolio; and establishing, enhancing, or substantially modifying grant program or policy requirements to improve project and program impact or to respond to evolving stakeholder needs. Technical Qualifications: Applicants who meet the basic entry and minimum qualification requirements, as described above, will be further evaluated on the following technical qualifications: Grants Management Administration and Management Writing Oral Communication Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position. Education can be used to substitute for experience. If using education to qualify at lower grade levels, transcripts are required.

Contacts

• Address OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME DO NOT MAIL Washington, DC 20531 US
• Name: JaMarah Goree
• Phone: 202-598-1992
• Email: [email protected]