Grants Management Specialist

This Grants Management Specialist position is with Forest Service (Department of Agriculture) in Phoenix, AZ. This position serves as the technical authority for all research grant and agreement actions, administering the program, ensuring compliance, providing expert guidance, and independently resolving most issues. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Cindy Gordon at cindy.d.gordon@usda.gov. Key duties: • Provides advice and guidance to directors and program managers in all aspects of the grants and agreements to federal and non-federal agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; educational, non-profit, private, and corporate entities. • Provides advice and guidance on the administrative aspects of partnership agreements including cooperative, challenge cost-share, participating, collection, interagency, and service-wide memoranda of understanding. • Processes a full range of grant and agreement applications used to determine the selection of grant and agreement awards. • Provides interpretation of laws and regulations concerning use of Federal funds and qualifying program expenditures. • Determines appropriate legislative and program authority prior to execution of each grant or agreement. • Has full and final authority to negotiate grants and agreements within the limits of delegated authority, reviews all reimbursement requests for appropriateness, and processes payments. • Terminates grants and agreements as the situation dictates. Closes out grants and agreements within the established closeout procedures. • Performs supervisory duties 20% or less of the time. Qualifications: In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-13 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as two or more of the following: Resolving complex grant and/or cooperative agreements, such as partnerships; Performing pre-award through closeout processes for complex cooperative agreements and/or grants; Establishing internal unit processes and systems for negotiating and administering grants/cooperative agreements (all phases); Providing advice to senior program officials, internal customers and external partners on matters related to grants management. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.