Description

MIRACORP Inc. is a veteran, woman-owned firm specializing in federal government contract services. One competitive advantage is that services provided to customers are provided with unmatched excellence. MIRACORP engages employees as the cornerstone of its success creating constant growth!

MIRACORP seeks a Grant Management Specialist I to provide the following.

Position Summary:

Serves as a grants management specialist to promote practices that are compliant with applicable statutes, regulations, best practices, specific program emphases, and other organizational objectives. The ability to Identify gaps in grant management policies, procedures, practices, and documentation; suggests feasible methods to address identified concerns; and works with management to implement improvement recommendations. Represents agency intra-governmental panels, committees, and working groups responsible for conducting advanced analyses of grant making processes and development of research issues and topics. Maintains effective contact with agency stakeholders, other offices, government agencies, businesses, and contractors, as appropriate, to remain current on new initiatives, programs, grant requirements and regulations, and to develop information on potential areas of cooperation and synchronization of efforts, along with the following duties.

Responsibilities May Include:

• Grant/Cooperative Agreement Pre-Award Functions: Participates in pre-award application review to assess the responsiveness of applications against established submission requirements.

• Reviews the applicant's risk profile and past performance to advise on appropriate methods of constructing selected applicant's award package and assigns a monitoring profile accordingly.

• Ensures that legal, regulatory, and policy issues are addressed by the selected awardee's submissions in support of program requirements, budgetary requirements, awardee's institutional review board (IRB) reviews, and any other applicable requirements.

• Drafts award documentation to address any areas of risk or gaps in the grant application in accordance with 2 CFR 200.

• Conducts critical and thorough reviews of the proposed budget to ensure costs are reasonable, allowable, appropriate, allocable, and necessary and works with the recipient pre-award whenever possible to address areas of concern within ethical bounds.

• Ensures all peer review outcomes and funding recommendations are properly documented and filed prior to making an award.

• Grant/Cooperative Agreement Post-Award Functions: Maintains a substantial portfolio of awarded grants and cooperative agreements and works with awardees to ensure all required reports and deliverables are submitted in the timeframe specified by the terms and conditions of the grant or agreement from grant award to grant closeout.

• Reviews and disseminates awardee reports to ensure compliance with technical, financial, and regulatory requirements of the agreement.

• Collaborates with Department Financial staff to coordinate budget and planning activities, assess awardee activity, and ensure organizational compliance with regulations for assessment of payments.

• Assesses grantee performance and both collects and communicates relevant information regarding this assessment to interagency departments.

• Reviews and approves or disapproves requests by awardees for adjustments in requirements, scope, and/or funding and assures all requirements stated in the agreement are met.

Qualifications

• Proficiency and regular use of 2 CFR 200 required.
• Minimum 2 years Federal Grants Experience.
• State Grants Experience considered with extensive knowledge of CFR200
• U.S. Citizenship required, Government Security Vetting.
• Bachelor’s degree in the appropriate disciplines, or equivalent with 2 to 3 years of specialized experience. Education can be substituted with proven 2 to 3 years of specialized experience.

Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

• This position has a duty station of Remote.