Job Location: This position will be located at 912 Wildwood, Jefferson City, MO 65109

Why you’ll love this position:

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has received numerous grants as a result of COVID-19 to support planning, preparing and responding to COVID-19 and future disease outbreaks. This highly organized, attentive to detail professional will work with the various divisions across the department on grant implementation plans; ensure funding is utilized to create positive impacts on public health infrastructure and workforce; and showcase the return on investment by producing dashboards and impact statements.

What you’ll do:

• Assist programmatic staff in deploying implementation plans to positively impact federal grant deliverables through coordinating with stakeholders, facilitating meetings and discussions, drafting contracts and budgets to achieve workplan completion.
• Maintain a cloud-based grants management tool to provide internal stakeholders details on the progress of meeting grant deliverables and expending funds.
• Create materials that showcase the return on investment of this work and use of funding by producing dashboards and impact statements.
• Develop implementation plans from grant workplans to assist programmatic staff in achieving grant deliverables.
• Research best practices, lessons learned and identify projects to ensure funds support creating positive impacts to Missouri’s public health infrastructure and workforce.
• Assist programmatic staff in requesting revisions to federal grant application workplan and budgets.
• Provide technical assistance to programmatic staff on state procurement regulations.

All you need for success:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience; experience with federal grants including drafting applications, implementation plans, budgets, fiscal cycles, reporting; and understanding fiscal cycles and guidance requirements may be substituted.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel, and grant and contract tracking tools, preferred.
• Project management experience is optimal, but not required.
• Skill in drafting proposals, impact statements and identifying process improvement opportunities.
• Ability to communicate clearly, develop relationships, problem solve and facilitate meetings.
• Solid analytical, writing, and editing skills.
• Strong critical thinking, organizational and time management proficiencies.
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion and be adaptable to various competing demands.

If you have questions about this position please contact:

Laura Kliethermes (573) 751-5264

The State of Missouri is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.