Senior Grants Manager

IEM is looking to bring on a Full Time - Senior Grants Manager who will be responsible for managing federally funded programs to ensure compliance and meeting established deliverables, inclusive of oversight and monitoring of subrecipients.  

 

Primary Location: 

• Candidates can live anywhere that meets remote work requirements in the United States including Puerto Rico.   

• Work is expected to take place at home or personal office space with travel to client site in Sacramento, CA. 

• Preference will be given to candidates who reside in and around the Sacramento, CA area.   

 

Travel Requirements: 

• This position may require travel to complete work assignments or attend meetings. 

 

Essential Functions: 

• Demonstrate strong leadership and managerial abilities, including providing staff training, building accountability, excellent communication skills and commitment to teamwork and excellence in responsibilities. 

• Lead and supervise team members and build collaborative processes with support teams such as engineering, environmental, construction management, marketing and accounting specialists.  

• Establish and monitor project timelines, budgets, and performance metrics to ensure successful delivery and compliance with state and federal funding agency guidelines.   

• Remain current and knowledgeable of active CA CDBG-DR programs, including funding, plans, and implementation policies and procedures. 

• Attend stakeholder meetings to include internal and external governance, committee meetings and workgroups as necessary. 

• Facilitate regular meetings with stakeholders to ensure proper project management and spend of all available funding. 

• Provide training, technical and administrative guidance on all work requirements and methods, executing applicable regulations and subrecipient award terms and conditions. 

• Prepare and/or review information and reports for internal and external stakeholders. 

• Develop and/or review and modify policies and procedures across all grant life cycle processes in accordance with government regulations and organization needs and objectives. 

• Create effective monitoring tools to ensure compliance with all grant life cycle processes and develop subrecipient monitoring procedures that are compliant with federal and other applicable regulations and consistent with sound business practices. 

• Perform grants management duties to manage and monitor subawards, subrecipients and projects. 

• Direct human resources and management activities and determine the staffing levels needed to accomplish the operational tasks. 

• Perform other duties as assigned. 

 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Experience: Five (5) years of experience with federal grants management and demonstrated experience ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations.  

• Three (3) years of experience with managing staff and high-performance teams. 

• Knowledge of federally fun