Grants Management Specialist

US Federal Emergency Management Agency; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Oakland, CA, seeks a seasoned grants manager to oversee multi-million-dollar mitigation grant programs. The role includes administering funding, reviewing compliance, and guiding recipients through awards, amendments, and closeouts.

The position requires evaluating grant laws and providing technical assistance, ensuring financial integrity and program alignment across complex initiatives.

Qualifications

• Administer funding for infrastructure, mitigation, or community-resilience projects.
• Review grant and project documentation for compliance with regulations, program requirements, budget rules, or award terms.
• Analyze grants-management processes to identify efficiencies and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance to recipients and stakeholders.
• Interpret grant laws, regulations, policies, and guidance.
• Ensure compliance with financial, reporting, and program requirements.

Skills

Grant management

Regulatory compliance

Program analysis

Documentation review

Job description

The ideal candidate has experience managing multi-million-dollar mitigation grant programs, including application review, award administration, recipient monitoring, amendments, and closeout. They can interpret grant laws, regulations, policies, and guidance; provide technical assistance to recipients and stakeholders; analyze and resolve complex grant issues; and ensure compliance with financial, reporting, and program requirements. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:

1. 1) Administering funding assistance for infrastructure, mitigation, or community-resilience projects; and
2. 2) Reviewing grant and project documentation to determine compliance with applicable grant regulations, program requirements, eligibility standards, budget requirements, or award terms and conditions; and
3. 3) Analyzing grants-management processes and operational issues to identify program efficiencies and recommend improvements.

Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application:

• Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.
• Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.

Are you qualifying based on your work experience?

• Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level.
• Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment.
• Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified.
• 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

• For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Are you qualifying under Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP/CTAP) Eligibles?

If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP/CTAP eligible. View information about ICTAP/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement. Well-Qualified is defined as those applicants who are rated with a minimum score of 80.00 for this position.