Grants Management Specialist (Multiple Levels)
On-siteAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Support federal grant and cooperative agreement activities throughout the pre-award, award, post-award, monitoring, and closeout phases. Review applications, budgets, work plans, and progress reports for completeness and alignment with program requirements. Coordinate merit, objective, field, or panel review activities and administer awards, including correspondence, change requests, and documentation. Track grant milestones, deliverables, funding, performance measures, risks, and corrective actions while monitoring recipient progress. Provide technical assistance to funding recipients on program requirements, reporting expectations, and administrative processes. Plan and facilitate recipient calls, webinars, meetings, and office hours. Maintain organized grant files, trackers, templates, standard operating procedures, and guidance. Analyze grant and recipient information to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for program improvement. Prepare reports, briefings, presentations, and client deliverables. Support audit, monitoring, corrective-action, and award-closeout activities. Communicate progress, issues, risks, and recommended actions to clients, project leadership, and team members.
Required Qualifications
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"
- Bachelor's degree in public administration, public policy, business administration, finance, accounting, public health, health administration, social sciences, or a related field
- ONE (1) or more years of experience supporting federal grant or cooperative agreement programs, preferably within a federal health or public health environment
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in public administration, public policy, business administration, finance, accounting, public health, health administration, or a related field
- Professional, academic, fellowship, internship, or practicum experience supporting grants, cooperative agreements, financial assistance, public programs, program operations, finance, compliance, or related activities
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple activities and produce accurate, timely, and well-organized work
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
- Ability to obtain and maintain the level of federal suitability or clearance required for the assigned engagement
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Knowledge of the federal financial-assistance lifecycle and applicable requirement
- Experience supporting funding recipients, reviewing programmatic or financial submissions, or monitoring grant performance and compliance
- Familiarity with federal grants systems such as GrantSolutions or Grants.gov
- Experience developing grants-related reports, guidance, training materials, or operational tools
- Relevant certification in grants management, financial management, project management, public administration, or a related area
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