This position is part of the Haskell Indian Nations University, Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). As a Grants Management Specialist you will perform cradle-to-grave administration including pre-award, award, post-award, and close-out functions in support of financial assistance programs involving discretionary and mandatory funding with various legal authorities, statutory requirements and various recipients including non-profits, educational, local and state governments, and tribal entities.

Duties

As a Grants Management Specialist GS-1109-9/11, your typical work assignments may include the following: Ensures that business management systems are compliant with regulatory requirements. Determines any risk mitigation required to protect Federal interest. Prepares award documents for execution and ensures necessary approvals as required by DOI regulations and designates a qualified Grants Officer's Technical Representative (GOTR). Administers grants and agreements by monitoring performance, progress and cost, protecting the Government's rights, enforcing all terms and conditions and ensuring that all actions are properly completed. Provides direction and guidance to the GOTR or technical representative and recipient throughout the life of the agreement. Monitors the objective review process of recipient's technical proposals and advises independent review panels, as necessary. Receives, reviews, and evaluates all applications for assigned programs to ensure that proposals/agreements conform to law, regulations, Bureau and DOI policy.

Requirements

• US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
• BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL HIRES
• APPOINTMENT MAY BE SUBJECT TO A 2 YEAR TRIAL OR 1 YEAR PROBATIONARY PERIOD
• RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE MAY BE PAID WITH A SIGNED AGREEMENT
• RELOCATION INCENTIVE MAY BE PAID WITH A SIGNED AGREEMENT
• SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR MALES BORN AFTER 12/31/1959

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the qualification requirements contained in the OPM Standards. For this position, they are listed below. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. GS-9: 1 year of specialized experience that equipped me with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Examples include: Analyzing and assessing risk determination and identifying appropriate risk mitigations necessary for the successful completion of the grant award. Performing detailed budget analysis on both competitive and noncompetitive agreements to determine the allowability, allocability, and reasonableness under applicable cost principles and their relationship to the objectives of proposed project. Administering, modifying, and terminating financial assistance actions, and performing budget analysis functions from simple to complex. Monitoring the performance of recipients through review of performance reports, financial status reports, and correspondence with both Bureau and recipient program/administrative staff. Developing and posting notices of funding opportunities to applicable systems. OR Successfully completed 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. 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. OR Combination of graduate level education (as defined in B above) and specialized experience (as defined in A above) when combined together meets 100% of the total requirements for the position. To compute, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of graduate education by 18. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100% to qualify. GS-11: 1 year of specialized experience that equipped me with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Examples include: Analyzing and assessing risk determination and identifying appropriate risk mitigations necessary for the successful completion of the grant award. Performing detailed budget analysis on both competitive and noncompetitive agreements to determine the allowability, allocability, and reasonableness under applicable cost principles and their relationship to the objectives of proposed project. Administering, modifying, and terminating financial assistance actions, and performing budget analysis functions from simple to complex. Monitoring the performance of recipients through review of performance reports, financial status reports, and correspondence with both Bureau and recipient program/administrative staff. Developing and posting notices of funding opportunities to applicable systems. Resolving any identified noncompliance that arises in the performance of the financial assistance action and determining an applied remedy for noncompliance in accordance with regulation. Performing and monitoring close-out of agreements including reconciling financial information and processing a funding de-obligation. OR Successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR Combination of graduate level education (as defined in B above) and specialized experience (as defined in A above) when combined together meets 100% of the total requirements for the position. When combining education with experience, first determine the applicant's total qualifying education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; then determine the applicant's experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; finally, add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. Other Significant Facts: The incumbent may be required to obtain and maintain Grants Management certification from an approved organization. The incumbent may be appointed as a Grants Officer with the authority to sign awards, modifications, terminations, and other actions associated with Financial Assistance instruments within the prescribed limits of their appointment documentation.

Education

EDUCATION: Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, credit hours, major, and grade-point average or class ranking, degree and date awarded. All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Applicants are responsible for providing documentation that the educational requirements have been met. To qualify based on education you must submit a legible copy of your transcripts. Official transcripts are required upon selection if you qualified based on education.

Education must have been obtained from an accredited or pre-accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.

For further information on creditable education visit:
https://www.ed.gov/accreditation?src=rn
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Contacts

• Address Haskell Indian Nations University 155 Indian Ave, Box #5021 Lawrence, KS 66046 US
• Name: John Chiu
• Phone: 909-847-4734
• Email: [email protected]