Grants Management Specialist; Land Grant

Duties

NOTE: THIS IS A READVERTISEMENT. APPLICANTS THAT PREVIOUSLY APPLIED WILL BE CONSIDERED AND NEED NOT REAPPLY UNLESS TO UPDATE THEIR APPLICATION.

As a Grants Management Specialist (Land Grant), GS-1109-9/11, your typical work assignments may include the following under supervision:

• Ensures that business management systems are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Determines any risk mitigation required to protect Federal interest.
• Prepares award documents for execution and ensures necessary approvals as required by DOI regulations and designates a qualified Grants Officer's Technical Representative (GOTR).
• Administers grants and agreements by monitoring performance, progress and cost, protecting the Government's rights, enforcing all terms and conditions and ensuring that all actions are properly completed.
• Provides direction and guidance to the GOTR or technical representative and recipient throughout the life of the agreement.
• Monitors the objective review process of recipient's technical proposals and advises independent review panels, as necessary.
• Receives, reviews, and evaluates all applications for assigned programs to ensure that proposals/agreements conform to law, regulations, Bureau and DOI policy.

Conditions of employment

• Be sure to read the '
  
  How to Apply
  
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• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• As a condition of employment, you will be required to serve a 2-year trial or 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959, you are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act and the Defense Authorization Act of 1986, in order to be eligible for appointment to this agency.
• Driving Requirement (Required only at time of appointment):
  Incumbent may be required, as an incidental duty, to operate a government-owned or leased motor vehicle, in the performance of duties, therefore, a valid driver's license is required.
• Term appointments do not confer competitive/permanent status (5 CFR part 316).

Applicants must meet the qualification requirements contained in the

SPECIALIZED

EXPERIENCE:

Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

GS-9: 1-year of specialized experience that equipped me with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include reviewing land grants and agreements and/or acquisition proposals to ensure alignment with statutes, regulations, and agency policies;

preparing financial and programmatic reports, analyzing performance data, and conducting audits; reviewing reimbursement requests, approving expenditures, and tracking budgets to prevent overspending; monitoring the recipients through review of performance reports, and financial status; developing programs that create local and regional opportunities to address youth, family, community, natural resource, and environmental issues; preparing and disseminating educational materials and marketing information in support of program initiatives through area-wide events, workshops, field days, websites, newsletters, and other mass media methods.

OR

Successfully completed a master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related to this position. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1-year of full-time study requirement.

OR

Combination of specialized…