Senior Federal Grants Growth Director

Attain Partners; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

HSA/FSA and insurance

401(k) matching

Flexible time off

Career development tracks

Job summary

Attain Partners in Washington, DC, is seeking a Senior Principal for Federal Grants Management Services to drive growth across the federal market. The role involves building trusted relationships with federal executives, shaping opportunities, and leading the full lifecycle from planning to delivery.

You will position capabilities across program strategy, pre/post-award operations, compliance, data analytics, and technology modernization, collaborating with practice leaders, delivery teams, and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success selling consulting, professional services, technology-enabled services, or managed services to U.S. federal agencies.
• Strong knowledge of the federal grants lifecycle, including program design, pre-award, award, post-award administration, monitoring, compliance, audit readiness, technical assistance, and closeout.
• Understanding of federal financial assistance requirements and policy, including 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Guidance) and related agency regulations.
• Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior federal executives, grants and program leaders, acquisition professionals, and industry partners.
• Experience developing federal account strategies, identifying and qualifying opportunities, shaping requirements, and converting opportunities into a measurable pipeline.
• Experience leading capture activities, including win strategy, competitive analysis, teaming, solution development, pricing coordination, win themes, and proposal strategy.
• Experience leading or playing a significant role in compliant, persuasive federal proposal submissions.
• Ability to communicate the value of multidisciplinary solutions that combine grants domain expertise, process improvement, data and analytics, change management, and technology modernization.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and coordinate multiple opportunities and deadlines in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Experience maintaining accurate opportunity, pipeline, and forecast data in a customer relationship management system.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth for Attain Partners’ grants management services across the federal market.
• Build trusted relationships with federal executives and shape opportunities across the grants lifecycle.
• Lead account planning, pipeline development, proposal submission, award, and transition to delivery.

Skills

Federal grants lifecycle

Account strategy

Capture management

Proposal development

Executive communication

CRM data management

MS Office

Relationship building

Tools

Grants.gov familiarity

SAM.gov knowledge

Job description

Attain Partners in Washington, DC, is seeking a Senior Principal for Federal Grants Management Services to drive growth across the federal market. The role involves building trusted relationships with federal executives, shaping opportunities, and leading the full lifecycle from planning to delivery.

You will position capabilities across program strategy, pre/post-award operations, compliance, data analytics, and technology modernization, collaborating with practice leaders, delivery teams, and