Supervisory Grants Management Specialist
What you'd do
The ideal candidate has experience supervising grants staff and overseeing multi-million-dollar Hazard Mitigation Assistance or other mitigation grant programs, including application review, award administration, recipient monitoring, amendments, and closeout. They can interpret grant laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; provide direction to staff and stakeholders; resolve complex grant issues; improve processes; and ensure compliance with financial, reporting, and program requirements.
Major duties
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Grants Management Specialist in the Mitigation Division, Region 9, supporting Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs, including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and non-disaster mitigation assistance programs. Typical duties include: - Supervising and leading a team of grants management specialists by assigning and reviewing work, setting priorities, monitoring progress, evaluating performance, identifying training needs, and supporting consistent, high-quality grants management operations. - Overseeing the administration of complex Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant awards throughout the grant life cycle, including application review, award processing, amendments, reimbursement review, monitoring, audit resolution, reporting, and closeout. - Reviewing and analyzing grant applications, award documents, financial reports, and recipient performance information to assess eligibility, compliance with Federal requirements, budget reasonableness, risk, and alignment with hazard mitigation program objectives and authoritative guidance. - Providing expert technical guidance to staff, recipients, and stakeholders on hazard mitigation assistance program policies, procedures, systems, internal controls, monitoring requirements, and the resolution of complex or unusual grant issues. - Leading program improvement and coordination activities by reviewing regional grant procedures, identifying process or compliance issues, recommending updates to guidance or internal controls, preparing briefings and reports, and coordinating with FEMA Headquarters, regional staff, and State, local, Tribal, and territorial partners. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
What you need to qualify
Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 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: Leading or supervising grants management staff, project teams, or program activities by assigning work, reviewing work products, setting priorities, monitoring progress, or providing technical direction; and Managing or administering complex grant or cooperative agreement awards through multiple phases of the grant life cycle, including application review, award processing, amendments, monitoring, reimbursement review, reporting, or closeout; and Interpreting and applying grants management laws, regulations, policies, procedures, or program guidance to assess eligibility, ensure compliance, evaluate recipient performance, identify risk, resolve complex issues, or recommend improvements to program operations. 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. Please limit your resume to two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. 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/DAE employee? 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
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