Federal Grants Management Specialist

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1, a data lab aiding AI labs and enterprises, seeks a Federal Grants Management Specialist (Contractor) to support a key customer project. The role focuses on drafting NOFOs, reviewing grant applications, and ensuring compliance with federal requirements, including 2 CFR Part 200.

Remote work enabled; collaboration across teams is essential. Ideal candidates will have proven federal grants management experience (GS-1109), strong communication skills, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Proven experience in federal grants management (GS-1109) or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of federal grants processes, compliance standards, and reporting requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on clarity and technical accuracy.
• Commitment to customer service and effective collaboration in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Draft federal funding announcements and NOFOs with program objectives, eligibility, instructions, and evaluation criteria.
• Review and score federal grant applications for eligibility, merit, budget justifications, and alignment with funding requirements.
• Prepare formal grant monitoring findings with identified deficiencies, supporting evidence, regulations, and corrective actions.
• Review and annotate grant applications, budgets, and compliance reports to develop AI training materials.
• Evaluate AI-generated grants management outputs for regulatory accuracy and procedural correctness, including 2 CFR Part 200.
• Develop realistic grant management scenarios, reference answers, and evaluations for pre-, post-, and award processes.

Skills

Customer Service

Teamwork

Attention to Detail

GS-1109

Grant Management

Job description

Pay: $60 - $85/hour

Required Skills

• Customer Service
• Teamwork
• Attention to Detail
• GS-1109
• Grant Management
• About micro1

About micro1 micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Federal Grants Management Specialist

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Federal Grants Management Specialists to support an important customer project requiring domain expertise in federal grants and compliance. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.

Scope of Work

• Draft federal funding announcements and Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs), defining program objectives, eligibility requirements, application instructions, and evaluation criteria.
• Review and score federal grant applications, assessing eligibility, project merit, budget justifications, and alignment with funding requirements.
• Prepare formal grant monitoring findings, identifying compliance deficiencies, supporting evidence, applicable regulations, and recommended corrective actions.
• Review and annotate grant applications, award documents, budgets, and compliance reports to develop high-quality AI training materials.
• Evaluate AI-generated grants management outputs for regulatory accuracy, procedural correctness, and adherence to federal requirements, including 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Guidance).
• Develop realistic grant management scenarios, reference answers, and evaluations covering pre-award, award, and post-award processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven professional experience in federal grants management, particularly in GS-1109 positions or equivalent federal, state, or local government grant administration roles.
• Hands-on experience drafting funding notices, reviewing and scoring applications, and documenting monitoring or audit findings.
• Strong knowledge of federal grants processes, compliance standards, and reporting requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity and technical accuracy.
• Commitment to customer service and effective collaboration in a remote environment.
• Prior experience with AI training, model evaluation, or content review is a plus.

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