Position Summary:
This position serves as a Grant Management Specialist in the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The incumbent manages and administers FRA’s grants/cooperative agreements, ensures compliance with all applicable terms and regulations, and achieves programmatic success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist with the analysis of applications in order to ensure that all grant applications comply with applicable program announcements and that administrative and fiscal policies are reasonable in terms of requesting grantees’ policies.
- Notify the grantee of the responsibilities, requirements, grant management policies, and procedures to be followed during the life of the grant and provides guidance in the proper use of public funds.
- Evaluate recipients’ reimbursement requests and recommends approval or disapproval, using fact-finding and analytical techniques and methods used to gather, evaluate, and summarize information and draw conclusions, for supervisory review.
- Assist in developing related grant policies and procedures for FRA’s grant assistance programs.
- Assist with the monitoring, review, and maintenance of grant tracking systems for incoming grant actions, grantee reports, and other grant management documents, and prepares reports, as requested, for the team lead/supervisor based on data and grant tracking systems.
- Assist with the establishment, management, maintenance, sunset, and close-out of grants and cooperative agreements and uses Microsoft Office tools to maintain grant management files and databases.
- Provide advice and funding recommendations for the development and preparation of assigned grants from various applicants-including state and local governments, government sponsored authorities and corporations, railroads and joint ventures.
Required Education & Experience:
- Experience applying grant management principles for the purpose of administering, analyzing and evaluating grant programs to ensure and maintain compliance.
- Experience using automated grant management, budgetary and grant management systems to resolve issues develop and analyze miscellaneous reports.
- Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
- 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
- Experience analyzing grant financial and program data to identify trends, problems, and decision
- Experience applying grant analysis principles and program requirements to evaluate, assess, and make recommendations related to the review of grant proposals,
- Required documents must be submitted by the closing date.
- Submit application and resume online by 11:59 PM EST on the closing date
- You must be a U.S. citizen & meet specialized experience to qualify
- Experience working in an office that is responsible for the award and management of grants, and/or cooperative agreements.
- Experience applying automated grant management, budgetary and grant management systems to resolve issues, develop and analyze reports, manage grant resources and develop recommendations for systems and/or business process changes.