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Job opening: Grants Management Specialist

Salary: $63 369 - 99 670 per year
City: Atlanta
Published at: Mar 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making. This position is inside the NCFLL bargaining unit.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to: Perform a variety of developmental duties related to the management, evaluation, and monitoring of grants and agreements with agencies. With oversight and guidance participate in preparing and processing grants/assistance awards and ensure compliance with reporting requirements. Use communication skills to develop correspondence and detailed written explanations of specific aspects financial guidelines. Participate in the review of closeouts submitted at the completion of a grant period. Collect and compile data for the operating budget and expenditures for specific programs. Recognize technical problems, such as inadequate justification or deviations from normal procedure, and confer with the supervisor or higher graded specialist to resolve them after searching precedents to develop a recommended solution. Develop correspondence and detailed written explanations of specific aspects of financial guidelines. Serve as a liaison with state grant awardees to clarify, interpret, and resolve routine issues. Monitor agreements throughout the year or lifecycle. Ensures all terms and conditions of the grants and agreements have been complied with. Duties at the GS-09 are development leading up to the full performance level of the GS-11.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications to qualify for each grade they wish to be considered for. For more information on the qualifications for this position, go to: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/Standards/group-stds/gs-admin.asp For the GS-9 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-7 grade level; OR a master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related; OR an appropriate combination of specialized experience and education (only graduate education in excess of 18 semester hours may be used to qualify applicants for this grade level). The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Examples of specialized experience are: Participated in reviewing closeouts submitted by the states at the completion of the grant period; Answered basic questions for state grant awardees to clarify, interpret, and resolve routine issues; Collected and compiled data for operating budget and expenditures. Developed and maintained an automated system of monthly monitoring and reporting on expenditures and projecting expenses and funds available. For the GS-11 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-9 grade level; OR a PH.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related; OR an appropriate combination of specialized experience and education (only graduate education in excess of 36 semester hours may be used to qualify applicants for this grade level). The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Examples of specialized experience are: Participated in preparing and processing grants and ensures compliance with reporting requirements; Assisted in the review, analysis, and evaluation of routine grants/agreement applications; Reviewed program expenditures on a monthly and quarterly basis to identify deviations from plans; Reconciled financial data, property inventory, and resources on order; Identified closeout deficiencies.

Education

Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.

Contacts

  • Address Bureau of Labor Statistics 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
  • Name: Sara Schnitz
  • Phone: (312) 353-0839
  • Email: [email protected]

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