Senior Consultant – Grants & Project Management
About the role
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Consultant - Grants & Project Management to join our Planning & Permitting practice within the Earth & Environment business line. WSP's Planning & Permitting team helps state agencies, municipalities, public authorities, and other public-sector clients identify, secure, and manage funding for critical infrastructure, environmental, resilience, and community development initiatives. Our team works collaboratively with technical specialists across planning and permitting, site investigation and remediation, water, transportation, energy, resilience, and other disciplines to develop funding strategies, prepare competitive grant applications, and support post-award grant administration and compliance. This position will support clients throughout the full grant lifecycle, from identifying funding opportunities and developing grant applications through award management, reporting, compliance, and project delivery. The successful candidate will work closely with clients and multidisciplinary project teams to advance projects that improve communities, infrastructure systems, environmental outcomes, and economic development.
Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and track federal, state, and regional funding opportunities that align with client priorities and capital improvement programs.
- Develop grant funding strategies for infrastructure, environmental, transportation, water, resilience, redevelopment, and community development projects in collaboration with multidisciplinary WSP teams.
- Lead and support preparation of competitive grant applications, narratives, budgets, benefit analyses, schedules, and supporting documentation.
- Advise state and municipal clients on funding eligibility requirements, grant program priorities, and application competitiveness.
- Support clients with post-award grant management activities, including project setup, compliance monitoring, reporting, invoicing, reimbursement requests, and grant closeout.
- Serve as Project Manager for grant strategy, grant development, and grant administration contracts, managing scope, schedule, budget, and client communications.
- Coordinate with Planning & Permitting, Site Investigation & Remediation, Water, Transportation, Energy, Resilience, and other WSP technical teams to integrate funding strategies into project planning and delivery.
- Support business development activities, including client outreach, proposal development, presentations, and pursuit strategies related to grant consulting services.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with funding agencies, public-sector clients, and internal technical teams.
- Stay current on emerging federal and state funding programs, legislation, agency priorities, and infrastructure investment initiatives.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Requirements
- 6-10 years of professional experience supporting grant strategy, grant writing, grant administration, project management, public-sector consulting, or related fields.
- Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Public Administration, Public Policy, Environmental Studies, Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Communications, Transportation Planning, Community Development, or a related discipline.
- Experience identifying and pursuing federal and state funding opportunities for public-sector clients.
- Demonstrated experience preparing successful grant applications and funding strategies.
- Experience managing projects, including scope, schedule, staffing, budget, and client communications.