Senior Grants Specialist

The Building People Career Center; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Building People Career Center is seeking a Senior Grant Specialist to support the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. The role involves project management, acquisition, and administration of a broad range of grants and contracts, plus preparing analytical reports for senior management.

Ideal candidates will have expertise in contracting, cost analysis, and managing subcontractors, with the ability to interface with DOE/NNSA and contractor managers to ensure

Qualifications

• Experience in grant and contract management and project support.
• Understanding of contracting procedures, types, and negotiation strategies.
• Ability to analyze costs, schedules, and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Assist with project management, acquisition and administration for a broad range of agency grants, contracts, and acquisition vehicles.
• Provide business analysis and reports to ensure deliverables meet expectations and quality standards.
• Interface with senior DOE/NNSA and contractor managers to coordinate efforts.
• Coordinate with subcontractors and consultants and monitor performance.
• Apply cost/price analysis techniques to determine best value for the Government.

Job description

The Building People, LLC, has a position open for a Senior Grant Specialist with the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The Senior Grant Specialist will assist with the project management, acquisition and administration activities for a broad range of agency-wide grants, contracts, and acquisition vehicles. Shall provide overall business analysis recommendations and reports for this project. Shall have demonstrated ability to ensure reports and deliverables meet expectations, are of outstanding quality, and interface with senior Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration and contractor managers.

Individual must have demonstrated expertise in the following areas:

• Contracting procedures, types, and methods, including formal advertising, fixed-price, cost contracting, and use of special provisions and incentives to enable the buyer to plan and carry out contracting assignments.
• Industry which furnishes requirements to determine availability of sources and to analyze the effects on agency requirements of industrial developments, seasonal price trends, economic factors affecting supply and transportation costs.
• Life cycle support ranging from day-to-day administration to program assistance and acquisition planning, and performance metrics.
• Grant/Contract management, and/or project support management.
• Managing level of effort, support services contracts, and coordination of technical and business management between organizational entities.
• Utilizing techniques including management principles ranging from conceptualizing, planning, design, project development, and understanding of cost, scheduling and control measures.
• Managing subcontractors and consultants.
• Cost and price analysis techniques to perform a variety of computations relative to labor and other direct costs, indirect costs, specification requirements and charges for preparation and dissemination of contract deliverables to determine the best value for the Government.
• Negotiation techniques and skill in devising negotiation strategies to deal with contractors in resolving such problems as reducing costs, adjusting delivery schedules, and negotiating in sole source environments.
• Performs other related duties as assigned
• DOE/NNSA Contracting/Grants Experience preferred but not required.