This position is with the Small Business Administration, Office of International Trade in Washington, D.C. Serve as a Grants Management Specialist responsible for all aspects of awarding and administering grants and agreements including the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grant program. This position has full promotion potential to a GS-13 (GS-11/12/13).

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to: Processing Grant and Agreement Applications - Performs a variety of standard tasks related to the administrative aspects of partnership agreements including cooperative agreements, challenge cost-share agreements, participating agreements, collection agreements, and interagency agreements, cooperative fire agreements and memoranda of understandings. Reviewing Grant and Agreement Applications - Develops instruments within the delegated authority, circularizes request for proposals for grants and agreements, disseminates grant and agreement request for proposals; reviews and analyzes responses; and makes or recommends acceptance by higher authority as appropriate. Performs other duties as assigned. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. This is a bargaining unit position with AFGE Local 228. This is not a (drug) testing designated position (TDP).

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen
• You must successfully complete a background investigation.
• You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.

Qualifications

GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector that includes: 1) Understanding of grants and management of grants following policies, and regulations; AND 2) Creating a Notice of Funding announcement (NOFO) for any grant program; AND 3) Analyzing policies, and regulations These qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume. OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M, if related. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. You must submit transcripts (official or unofficial) to support this option. If selected, official transcripts will be required. OR Combination: A combination of education and experience. For example, an applicant who has 1.5 full years of Ph.D. level education (i.e. 50% of education required) and 6 months of creditable specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level as described above (i.e. 50% of the required experience) would equate to 100% of the required experience for the position. You must submit transcripts (official or unofficial) to support this option. If selected, official transcripts will be required. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site: Grants Management Series, 1109 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: If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled. All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 08/19/2024.

Education

If you do not meet the specialized experience requirements, you may also qualify with education. You MUST submit transcripts (official or unofficial) with this application if you wish to qualify based on education.

Contacts

• Address Office of International Trade 409 3rd Street SW Suite 2400 Washington, DC 20416 US
• Name: Kathleen Schrank
• Email: [email protected]