What will I do in this position if hired?
In this Grants Management Specialist position, you will be responsible for financial management of BRIC grants. You will be performing final review of completed grant or cooperative agreements/awards and making appropriate adjustments. You will be performing post award management, including process grant closeout, monitoring and audits requirements.
Typical assignments include:
- Review grant application with respect to grants administration requirements; this includes review of the SF424 Application for Federal Assistance and required assurances, Management Costs and processing through FEMA GO
- Provide consultation to program partners and recipients with regard to the requirements of 2 CFR 200 and FEMA Grants Management Policy Manual (GMPM)
- Tracking quarterly expenditures of grants funds
- Financially monitoring recipient (state and tribe) grants management procedures
- Finalizing reconciliation and closeout of grant awards for BRIC program
- Serve as BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) liaison to grantees and within FEMA.
- Conduct financial monitoring across the grant lifecycle for the BRIC program and other non-disaster grants as needed; Tracking quarterly expenditures of grants funds
- Conduct financial monitoring in accordance with FEMA GMPM and Grant Programs Directorate policy. This includes documenting allowability of cost determinations and coordinating with program on findings.
- Review grant applications for fiscal integrity; draft and approve award packages. Document application review decisions regarding, revision requests, and determinations of allowability and compliance with administration regulations and guidance in coordination with program.
- Conduct quarterly cash analysis and reconciliation; Review quarterly and final financial reports (SF-425) for compliance with terms and conditions of the grant award, confirmation that cost share or match has progress or is met and ensure that reports are submitted on time. Review quarterly and final performance reports and note areas of risk. Document analysis per GMPM requirements.
- Conduct financial system cross checks to verify accuracy of Final Federal Financial Report; ensure match has been met and there are no additional cash or cost adjustments necessary; document review of final financial report and system review in closeout workbook.
- Manage period of performance for grants including extension requests.
- Perform financial monitoring on selected recipients (state and tribe), remotely and through site visits to evaluate grants management procedures
What else do I need to know?
At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.
This position will be hired into a temporary 4 year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.
This position has promotion potential to the IC 12. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.
FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.
Starting at $67,743 Per Year (IC 9-12)
