Come join the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a nimble and transformative U.S. government agency that invests in community-led development across Latin America and the Caribbean. We directly engage local leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in underserved areas to make communities more prosperous, peaceful, and democratic. The Grants Assistant provides administrative, technical and grant management support to all aspects of IAF's grant making, and administration of country portfolios.

Duties

Duties at the GS-05 grade level will be performed under more supervision. Performs the full range of administrative and program support activities related to Foundation grant making. Creates and assembles grant documents. Conducts initial review of grant and cooperative agreement applications for compliance with federal and agency regulations, policies and procedures. Translates project budget line items and correspondence from English to the appropriate foreign language, and reviews for local language accuracy translations of official grant documents. Serves as a principal administrative expert on the grant and amendment review and approval process. Identifies, creates, and manages mechanisms and systems to facilitate agency-wide grant evaluation and approval. Establishes and maintains filing systems for proposals and grants approved, rejected, and withdrawn. Analyzes and compiles data and creates reports for upper management. Obtains appropriate travel requirements specific to each country of travel for all agency personnel. Serves as a liaison between the agency and State Department and USAID officials. Coordinates with field contractors for staff travel. Assembles required material for reports ad coordinates correspondence for the Office.

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements of the announcement including the following specialized experience and/or education and selective placement factor, as identified. This position contains a selective placement factor (SPF) that is part of the minimum qualifications requirement of the position. If you do not meet the SPF, you are ineligible for further consideration. The SPF for this position is: Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing in English and Spanish required. French, Haitian Creole, and/or Portuguese also preferred. A written and/or oral test may be used to test for language proficiency. If selected for an interview, a portion will be conducted in Spanish. For the GS-5 level: Must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-04) in the Federal Service that has given you the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties the position. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience for this position includes: providing clerical support in an office where your responsibilities included a broad working knowledge of administrative duties; applying standard office procedures and practices such as maintaining records or forms; entering data or providing reports from automated information computer systems; preparing standard correspondence from templates and tracking correspondence for clearance; scheduling appointments, coordinating meeting calendars, distributing agendas and preparing minutes for meetings; and receiving calls and visitors. OR Must have completed four full years of education above the high school level in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation. OR Must have less than four years of post-high school education, but I have a combination of post-high school education (in excess of the first 60 semester hours) and the specialized experience described above, which meet the total experience requirements for this grade level. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation. For the GS-7 level: Must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-06) in the Federal Service that has given you the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties the position. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience for this position includes but is not limited to working with a variety of administrative, writing, and research support functions related to the review and processing of grants, financial agreements or similar financial documents; preparing a variety of narratives (English to Spanish), statistical, and tabular materials, including correspondence, memoranda, specifications, briefs, and reports; serving as a public contact responding to inquiries and informational requests; establishing and maintaining a filing system or data base; and working with an office budget. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. This position requires 40 words per minute typing ability. If selected for an interview, a written and/or oral exercise may be used. Portions of the interview will be conducted in Spanish. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

If qualifying based on EDUCATION you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Only education from institutions which are accredited or preaccredited/candidate for accreditation may be used to meet education requirements.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address Inter-American Foundation 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Suite 1200 North Washington, DC 20004 US
• Name: Patty Oliva
• Email: [email protected]