Grants Writer

City of Jonesboro

Grants Writer

Job Description

Exempt:
No

Department:
Grants Department

Reports To:

Director of Community Development

Location:

City Hall

Safety Sensitive:
No

This position is responsible for the coordination of grant researching and writing. This position is responsible for administering grants and outside funding to ensure City grants are properly administered, recorded, spent, documented, and reported.

• Ensures fund availability for all grant applications. This duty is performed daily.
• Researches and identifies potential sources of funding; prepares written reports outlining grant opportunities; informs departmental grants representatives of specific grant opportunities. This duty is performed as needed.
• Coordinates work with department heads to implement programs. This duty is performed daily.
• Serves as liaison between the City and grant providers; seeks out and develops contacts with key individuals. This duty is performed daily.
• Conducts periodic and regular review of grants files for compliance with grant requirements. This duty is performed as needed.
• Ensures reports are prepared and submitted per grant requirements on a timely basis. This duty is performed monthly.
• Establishes and ensures maintenance of a grant filing and information system to monitor grants throughout the grant life, to provide responses to information requests, to ensure reconciliation between the City's financial records and grantor records, and which meets all grant requirements. This duty is performed daily.
• Develops cost allocation, obtains grantor approval of cost allocations, and ensures effective implementation of the cost allocations; reviews and updates cost allocations in a timely manner. This duty is performed as needed.
• Monitors grant reimbursement requests to ensure regular preparation; tracks request and receipt of grant reimbursements. This duty is performed weekly.
• Ensures the development and maintenance of departmental grant filing systems to capture and file necessary documentation. This duty is performed as needed.
• Addresses documentation and reporting issues with departmental personnel; advises management as necessary. This duty is performed as needed.
• Appears before funding agencies to present information required for consideration of requested grants. This duty is performed as needed.
• Ensures the development and maintenance of departmental grant filing systems to capture and file necessary documentation. This duty is performed annually.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Broad knowledge of such fields as accounting, marketing, business administration, finance, etc. Equivalent to a four year college degree, plus 4 years related experience and/or training, and 19 to 23 months related management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and policy/procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables in situations of a routine nature.

Not indicated.

Not indicated.

• Advanced:
  Spreadsheet, Word Processing/Typing
• Intermediate:
  Database, Presentation/Power Point
• Basic: 10-Key, Accounting, Alphanumeric Data Entry, Contact…