Grants Management Specialist

About the role

Harnessing Technology to Improve Financial Stewardship for the Welfare, Defense, and Security of Our Nation Blake Willson Group (BWG) unites deep domain experts with technologists who leverage industry-leading financial management solutions to address the most critical mission objectives. Headquartered in the National Capital Region, the firm delivers measurable outcomes through technology-forward strategies and advanced solutions that drive mission success. Blake Willson Group has a distinguished track record of exceptional performance, achieving operational efficiencies that allow our clients to do more with less. BWG has earned the confidence of its clients by consistently exceeding expectations through its unwavering commitment to best value solutions, implemented with speed. The position is a hybrid role, with a requirement to work onsite 2x a week in Rosslyn, VA. Must have an active Secret Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support the full federal grant lifecycle, including program planning, application review, award administration, monitoring, amendments, closeout, compliance, and program evaluation.
• Advise federal staff on grant program planning, development, implementation, lifecycle administration, policy application, and program enhancements.
• Lead complex reviews of applications, progress reports, amendments, monitoring results, payment requests, closeout documentation, and recipient issues.
• Develop application criteria, review methodologies, technical guidance, desk aids, and evaluation-panel materials.
• Assess programmatic compliance, recipient performance, and grant-management risk, and recommend appropriate resolution and follow-up actions.
• Provide technical assistance to applicants and recipients and resolve escalated questions from frontline support staff.
• Support program evaluation through logic models, performance measures, data-collection approaches, and analysis of program effectiveness.
• Draft senior-level correspondence, decision materials, audit responses, and policy or procedure recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience managing federal grants across the full grant lifecycle, including program design, application review, award, monitoring, amendments, and closeout.
• 3+ years of experience conducting complex compliance and technical reviews and developing grant policies, criteria, procedures, and guidance.
• 3+ years of experience assessing recipient risk and performance and providing senior-level technical assistance, advisory support, writing, and facilitation.

Skills

• Experience advising program officials on federal grants management.
• Experience developing risk-based monitoring approaches, logic models, and performance measures.
• Experience interpreting federal grant requirements and translating them into practical procedures and guidance.
• Experience addressing unusual, complex, or sensitive grant-management matters.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.