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Duties

This position is located in the Office of Grants Management (OGM), Office of the Deputy Chairman for Management & Budget, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). As a Grants Management Specialist, you will: -Assist in the processing and administration of NEA awards, including providing guidance and technical assistance to Agency staff, grantees, and cooperators. -Review financial reports such as budgets and requests for payments and/or expenditure documentation to determine its compliance and adequacy for acceptance. -Provide analyses and responses for internal management and external requests on matters such as grantee activity, grant issues and audit findings. -Participate on multi-disciplinary and/or cross-office teams that research, write, or present material that addresses federal financial assistance policies and procedures, or resolves problems.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet one of the following requirements: GS-11: A. At least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level in the Federal service with the following experience: 1) working with financial assistance applications and/or awards to review for allowable costs and activities, and provide guidance to applicants and grantees; 2) reviewing grant project budgets and/or grantee payment requests to evaluate accuracy and appropriateness and address issues; 3) and using financial assistance knowledge, including risk factors, to provide recommendations for resolving a range of grant issues. OR B. Successful completion of a 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, from an accredited college or university that provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform this work. (NOTE: You must submit a copy of your college transcripts to support your claim). (NOTE: You must submit a copy of your college transcripts to support your claim). OR C. Possess a combination of specialized experience (less than one year) and graduate education (beyond 2 years of graduate education), that when combined equals 100% of the qualification requirement. Note: Only graduate education in excess of two years (generally 36 semester hours) may be used in this calculation. You must submit a copy of your college transcripts (official or unofficial) and your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet the experience to support your claim. GS-12: You must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service with the following experience: 1) using financial assistance knowledge to review, evaluate and manage a variety of grants from pre-award through close out; 2) providing technical assistance to internal and external stakeholders regarding regulations and policies for managing awards, payments, and reporting; 3) and utilizing risk factors and other financial assistance authorities to resolve complex grant issues. NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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. Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Qualifications Must Be Met: The qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Note about the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation: Your experience (paid and unpaid), education, awards, training and self-development will be evaluated as it relates to the position based upon the information provided in your resume/application and any other supporting documents. Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Program (I/CTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not I/CTAP eligible. View information about I/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under I/CTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement.

Education

Education must be from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For additional information, refer to the U.S. Department of Education web site at http://www.ed.gov.Submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) or you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the courses.

Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S. college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Contacts

• Address Office of Grants Management National Endowment of the Arts 400 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20506 US
• Name: Philadelphia Services Branch
• Email: [email protected]