This position is located a Forest Service unit. The incumbent serves as a Grants and Agreements Specialist responsible for all aspects of awarding and administrating grants and agreements.

Duties

Provides advice and counsel to managers and program staff on a wide variety of grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements (instruments). Develops and maintains a visible internal/external communication tracking system of grants/cooperative agreement use. Reviews applications and other agreement proposals for technical adequacy and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policy.

Requirements

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required new supervisory training program before the end of their probationary period.
• Subject to one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period (unless prior service is creditable).

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. For the GS-11 Level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service. Qualifying specialized experience includes meeting one or more of the following: Developed conventional grant and/or cooperative agreements in compliance with regulatory, policy, and reporting requirements, such as through identifying the correct statutory authority, assistance listing numbers, and reporting interval; performed standard grants or agreement administration tasks, such as independently writing or editing grant or agreement scopes of work and financial plans, closing-out grant or agreement instruments and reconciling remaining funds, and resolution of any adverse audit findings; and/or applied new or modified work methods in performing conventional grant and/or cooperative agreement pre-award tasks, such as providing advice on the development of grant or agreement documents and financial plans and communicating specific requirements based on the project, authority, and funding type; OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or three years progressively higher-level graduate education which must be directly related to the position and demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work; such as business administration or any other related field; OR an appropriate combination of specialized experience and graduate level education (beyond what is required for a master's degree, i.e., more than 36 semester hours leading to a Ph.D.). Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

See Above.

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]