Officer, Senior Grant Compliance

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Officer, Senior Grant Compliance

Job Description Summary:

General Statement of Job

To provide effective oversight of grant awards and grant activities to ensure that grant monies are expended timely and appropriately by the grant project director(s) and that all deliverables and terms of grant funding are met.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Assists implementation staff in the preparation and submission of compliance reports.

• Advises grant managers on how to gather compliance data for reporting purposes.

• Provides training, technical assistance, and support to all grant awardees to aid in effective and appropriate expenditures of grant monies and effective grant project management.

• Develops and implements a systematic program review of grant funded projects that assist grant mangers to comply with contractual agreements, internal policies and procedures, reporting purposes and satisfactory progress toward completion of grant project objectives.

• Acts as liaison between the funding agency and the grant project directors to ensure compliance with all grant terms and conditions specified by the funding agency and consistent with relevant regulations.

• Reviews proposals and awards/contracts to identify and track deliverables for progress and compliance to expectations.

• Develops and conducts grant orientation workshops to be utilized at the onset of new grants for the purpose of preparing grant implementers to align with ACC processes and expectations.

• Reviews and processes documents, maintains databases, and provides complex reports.

• Develops and provides necessary forms and documents to the grant project manager.

• Assists with specific reporting and maintenance of databases as required.

• Develops policies and procedures that facilitate successful grant implementation.

• Works directly with the grant writers to assist in developing budgets for grant applications.

Knowledge

Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Grant programs and activities.

• Program documentation and reporting.

• Program implementation and delivery.