Lead Grants Management Specialist, GS-1109-14 NF
What you'd do
This Lead Grants Management Specialist, GS-1109-14 NF is located in the U.S. National Science Foundation's, Office of Award Management (OAM). OAM is responsible for ensuring the effective stewardship, oversight, and accountability of NSF's financial assistance portfolio through the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and business practices governing pre-award and post-award activities.
Major duties
As a Lead Grants Management Specialist, GS-1109-14 NF, you will perform the following duties: Team Development: Leads and coordinates the work of the team by mentoring staff, assigning and reviewing analytical tasks, evaluating performance, identifying training needs, balancing workloads, and ensuring alignment with NSF's mission and strategic objectives, while fostering cross-functional expertise and supporting workforce development within the assigned functional area. Lead and coordinate grants management and oversight activities across the full award lifecycle, including pre- and post-award oversight activities, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and alignment with organizational objectives. Apply expert knowledge of cost principles, financial management systems, and internal controls to resolve complex issues related to allowability, allocability, and reasonableness of costs, and to assess institutional risk for recipient organizations. Provide authoritative analysis and recommendations on audit findings or other identified recipient concerns, determine financial impact, evaluate corrective actions, and negotiate or support resolution of compliance issues with recipient organizations. Represent the agency, in high-level interactions with recipient organizations, federal agencies, and oversight bodies, and contributing to interagency initiatives. Serve as a technical authority in grants management and oversight, providing expert guidance and resolving complex financial, regulatory, and compliance issues across the award lifecycle. Other duties as assigned. This announcement is being used to fill vacancies in the Resolution, Appeals, and Monitoring (RAM) branch and Branch A. RAM is responsible for post-award oversight, including advanced monitoring, audit resolution, and appeals. In this branch you will support the full lifecycle of financial assistance oversight, including pre-award cost analysis, indirect cost negotiations, advanced post-award monitoring, audit resolution, and appeals. The position supports integrated, risk-based oversight of NSF awards and requires the ability to operate across functional areas based on organizational priorities and workload demands. OAM Grants Branch A provides comprehensive pre-award and post-award grants management support to the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU). OAM Grants Branch A - EDU is responsible for administering the full grants lifecycle, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, agency policies, and financial management requirements. Responsibilities included processing proposal submissions, coordinating award administration, monitoring grant activities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting award closeout. You can indicate on the questionnaire if you are only interested in particular branch.
What you need to qualify
To qualify at the GS-14 level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 Level leading complex grants management and oversight assignments, providing expert guidance to recipients and team members. Examples of specialized experience could include: Administering the full lifecycle of federal grants and cooperative agreements Interpreting and applying grants management policies Serving as a technical authority in grants management and oversight Experience refers to paid/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 can provide valuable training/experience that translates directly to paid work. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
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