Senior Grant Specialist - CSEngineering

Senior Grant Specialist

**Future Opportunity**

CSEngineering is looking to add a Senior Grant Specialist to our growing team!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate terms and conditions of grants/assistance awards to include costs, schedules, and oversight responsibilities. Serves as a liaison with external customers, recipients, and the awardee community to clarify, interpret, and resolve issues.
• Conducts risk assessments and business reviews to recommend appropriate action to program managers.
• Monitors, assesses and ensures compliance with all terms and conditions of award. Provides recommendations to program managers regarding grant assistance policies, procedures, and practices.
• Provides technical assistance, oversight, expertise, and consultation to program officials, awardees, applicants, recipients, and sub-recipients as needed.
• Reviews, analyses and evaluates grants/assistance applications, plans, and estimates. Determines awardee eligibility using specified formulas, methodologies and established eligibility criteria, such as competitive rating factors.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, understand complex issues, maintain good working relations, and meet basic professional performance standards.
• Ability to interpret, evaluate, and summarize complex issues relating to transportation infrastructure, ports, and the maritime industry.
• Ability to perform complex administrative and analytical work relating to discretionary grants, cooperative agreements, and mandatory grants using financial, administrative, and business procedures.
• Ability to facilitate modifications to terms and conditions of grants/assistance awards to include costs, schedules, and scope of projects as well as the ability to perform grant related administrative functions such as termination or closeout of grants and/or grants assistance and agreement awards.
• Ability to review invoices for reimbursable agreements to ensure compliance with regulatory and policy standards and recommend payment and review as well as process quarterly, semi-annual, and/or annual reports submitted by grantees.
• Comprehend Federal assistance regulations, policies, procedures, and practices to ensure appropriate oversight of a portfolio of Federal grants.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A Master's Degree with 5 years of experience in transportation, infrastructure, or discretionary grant program administration.
• A Bachelor's Degree with 10 years of experience in transportation, infrastructure, or discretionary grant program administration.
• A high school diploma with 15 years of experience in transportation, infrastructure, or discretionary grant program administration.

Location: New Jersey, Washington DC

COMPANY OVERVIEW

CSEngineering was founded in 2002 with the mission of being the best engineering and services firm in our industry while achieving the highest level of client satisfaction. CSEngineering has significant past performance with satellite systems, weapons and missile systems, naval architecture and engineering, aviation systems, and IT and Enterprise Architecture. We have come a long way since we were founded and now also provide services with focuses on logistics, item management, administration, equipment specialization, program management, configuration management, financial management, LAN operations, information technology and maintenance, development and operation of missile system laboratories, the operation of data collection systems, database, and information management support, demilitarization processes and DevSecOps. We could not achieve this without the dedication of our employees to their work and the clients we serve. Additionally, CSEngineering is a Hire Vets Gold Medallion award recipient. The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is the only federal-level veterans' employment award that recognizes a company or organization's commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development. CSEngineering truly values its people, wants them to love their jobs, and to build their careers with us. We are forever dissatisfied with status quo and are always looking for a better way to do things, not so much out of competitiveness, but out of a desire to simply be THE BEST and to lead our industry.

CSEngineering offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life, disability, 401k, and paid time off.

CSEngineering is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status.