Green — CDBG Compliance and Grants Specialist

About the role

Project Status: 🟢 Green - Open - Accepting Applications. Deadline for Submission: October 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time. Rate: Estimated 65-139 USD/Hour based on role, experience, and final project requirements. Client / Source: CITY OF SANFORD, Department: Community Development. Compliance Reports To: Director of Consulting Services. Location: Jackson Heights neighborhood, Sanford, North Carolina. Travel: As required by project scope. Type: Contract / Project-Based Opportunity.

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Responsibilities

• Maintain CDBG eligibility, labor, procurement, environmental, documentation, reporting, and reimbursement evidence.
• Prepare the role-specific compliance, inspection, test, or assurance plan with checkpoints, sampling, evidence, and pass/fail criteria.
• Review the applicable controls, submittals, configurations, records, and field or system results against the solicitation and approved baseline.
• Record defects, exceptions, severity, ownership, corrective actions, and due dates in a traceable findings register.
• Verify corrective actions through retest or reinspection and submit the signed acceptance recommendation with the complete evidence package.
• Trace assigned work to the RFP scope, requirement or RTM row, deliverable, dependency, acceptance criterion, schedule milestone, and supporting evidence.
• Review official solicitation materials and addenda affecting this workstream; document assumptions, open items, exclusions, risks, and required client decisions.
• Prepare role-specific technical inputs, work products, estimates, implementation details, quality records, and proposal or post-award delivery evidence.
• Coordinate interfaces and handoffs with project management, business analysis, technical, field, quality, compliance, training, and operations workstreams.
• Maintain status, issue, decision, change, and evidence records and escalate blockers before they affect submission or delivery readiness.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience performing CDBG Compliance and Grants Specialist responsibilities in public-sector, regulated, enterprise, or comparable environments.
• Ability to produce complete, reviewable work products tied to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Strong documentation, stakeholder coordination, risk awareness, confidentiality, and deadline discipline.
• Relevant licenses, certifications, clearances, insurance, or local delivery capacity when required by the solicitation.

Pay

Estimated 65-139 USD/Hour based on role, experience, and final project requirements.