Grant Strategy & Operations Director

State of Colorado; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PERA retirement plan

Medical and dental health plans

Employer contributed Health Savings账户

Paid life insurance

Disability coverage

11 paid holidays + vacation and sick>

Employee Wellness program MotivateMe

Remote work arrangements for eligible

Job summary

State of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration seeks a senior Grant Oversight Manager to lead grant vetting, proposal development, and post-award processes.

You’ll drive risk assessment, budgets, and compliance across NOFOs, audits, and closeout activities, supervising a team of six across divisions in a hybrid Colorado-based role that prioritizes accountability and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Nine (9) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position.
• OR a combination of related education and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to nine (9) years.
• Relevant years of state service experience

Responsibilities

• Directs the agency’s formal grant vetting process including grant application intake forms and decision workflows to enforce strategic alignment, thorough upfront project/budget planning, and evaluate organizational risk before submitting grant applications.
• Leads proposal development, writing assignments, narrative editing, logic model development, and budget architecture for dollar grant applications.
• Provides technical assistance to program directors to translate complex federal Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) into executable project plans.
• Monitor the federal register and other sources of information about discretionary grant opportunities and emerging potential funding opportunities, determining fit with the Office strategic plan and summarizing viable alternatives for leadership review.
• Tracks grant application statuses, Notices of Award (NOAs), budgets, submission documents, and reporting deadlines.
• Establishes agency-wide protocols, standard operating procedures (SOPs), desk manuals, and workflow priorities while continually monitors team performance.
• Lead the preparation of letters of support/commitment and maintains bolierplate agency descriptions for grant proposals.
• Maintain boilerplate language that describes the Department, Office, and Divisions to be used in grant applications. Complete all State, Departmental and Office clearance documents to ensure that submissions are cleared completely prior to submission.
• Applies a rigorous "Go/No-Go" evaluation matrix to assess project feasibility, capacity constraints, budget requirements, and strategic fit.
• Manages post-award transition frameworks upon receipt of new NOAs to prepare programmatic leads for implementation.

Job description

State of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration seeks a senior Grant Oversight Manager to lead grant vetting, proposal development, and post-award processes.

You’ll drive risk assessment, budgets, and compliance across NOFOs, audits, and closeout activities, supervising a team of six across divisions in a hybrid Colorado-based role that prioritizes accountability and collaboration.