Grants Management Specialist

Inside Philanthropy; Washington (District of Columbia); Vor Ort; USD 100.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, Tribal Division seeks a Grants Management Specialist (GS-1109-13) to lead complex grant and cooperative agreement management, focusing on tribal victim services and cross-program coordination.

You will provide expert guidance to ensure compliance with statutes and regulations, manage multi-site data, monitor program performance, and collaborate with tribal partners to advance victims' rights and services

Qualifikationen

• Specialized experience in managing complex grants or cooperative agreements.
• Ability to assess risk and resolve grant-related issues with technical guidance.
• Experience with pre-award activities for national and tribal grants.
• Capacity to improve grant programs and ensure grantee compliance.
• Experience coordinating with multiple sites and stakeholders.

Aufgaben

• Serves as a technical expert in grants management for complex discretionary and formula grants.
• Leads liaison with OVC stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance and program objectives.
• Evaluates grant applications and manages multi-site data collection and reporting.
• Oversees monitoring and management duties for programs related to crime victims’ rights.
• Plans and manages high-impact projects at national or program-wide levels.
• Conceives and implements initiatives to strengthen victim services and program integration.

Kenntnisse

Grant management

Risk assessment

Pre-award process

Technical assistance

Compliance monitoring

Stakeholder communication

Jobbeschreibung

Summary

This position is located in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime, Tribal Division. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent crime, protect American children, provide services to American crime victims, and public safety challenges. This position will support the work of the Tribal Division, overseeing victim services programs in Tribal communities.

Duties

The duties and responsibilities for a GS- 1109-13 generally include, but are not limited to, the following: Serves as a technical expert in grants and/or cooperative agreement management processes, providing advice and guidance to resolve, implement, or manage issues that involve major areas of uncertainty in approach or methodology. Serves as a liaison to OVC stakeholders in the area of grant management to promote practices that are compliant with applicable statutes, regulations, best practices, specific program emphases, and other organizational objectives. Serves as a technical expert in the evaluation of applications for complex discretionary and/or formula grants and/or agreements that contain a number of different processes or sub-grant elements, such as comprehensive grant solicitations that will require extensive grant administration work in that the grant will run several years, and data will be collected from multiple sites. Oversees programs or grants related to crime victims' rights and services with full responsibility for carrying out all required monitoring and management duties. Discusses the proposed changes with the grant recipient, suggests effective modifications, and recommends action on the changes to higher management. Plans and manages special projects for OVC or program to address issues with broad impact, such as those on an OVC or nation-wide level that ultimately result in advances for the crime victims' field. Conceives and implements new initiatives and projects to strengthen, facilitate, and integrate programs. Undertakes or participates in special projects, ongoing analyses, investigations and initiatives that have high priority for high-level management of projects that identify and resolve complex issues related to crime victims' rights and services to crime victims.

Qualifications

To qualify for the position of Grants Management Specialist, at GS-1109-13, you must meet the qualification requirements listed below. Specialized Experience: Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level. Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples of specialized experience include: Managing and monitoring complex grants and/or cooperative agreement, related to victim and/or survivors of crime, awarded through a diverse program portfolio for compliance with regulatory, policy, and reporting requirements, such as auditing awardee cost and pricing data that required an analysis of interrelated grantee operational issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity; Using advanced risk assessments techniques to identify and resolve complex grant and/or cooperative agreements, administration problems or potential compliance findings, related to victim and/ or survivors of crime, with unusual or unresolved issues requiring the provision of substantial technical assistance or the development of new processes; Performing work in the pre-award process for complex cooperative agreements and/or grants related to victim and/ or survivors of crime, within a technical field or specialized industry, such as developing grant solicitations to national, state, local, and tribal entities to improve the functioning of their criminal justice system where data was collected from multiple sites; Identifying methods of improving grant programs or process related to crime victim rights, that enhanced grantee compliance or performance across a program or portfolio; and establishing, enhancing, or substantially modifying grant program or policy requirements to improve project and program impact or to respond to evolving stakeholder needs. Highly Desirable Experience: The ideal candidate will have experience working with Tribal governments, Tribal victim service programs, or Tribal justice systems, including building partnerships, providing technical assistance, or administering grant-funded programs serving Tribal communities.

You MUST meet all qualification requirements, including time-in-grade, by the closing date of this announcement, 11/09/2026.