Grants Management Specialist

**Duties**:
**This series covers positions managing, supervising, leading, and/or performing administrative and management work.**
- Vacancies filled under this public notice may have varying levels of promotion potential and supervisory level, if any.
- Positions may be filled as permanent, term, or temporary with a full-time or part-time work schedule.

**As a **Grants Management Specialist** you may**:

- Prepare documentation required for Funding Opportunity Announcements for financial assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements). Negotiates all aspects of awards in accordance with applicable regulations. Provides expert advice on the mechanisms to develop agreements for highly specialized and complex research and development. Resolves conflicts regarding terms and conditions, intellectual property rights, cost-sharing provisions, and proprietary information provisions.
- Administer agreements during the pre-award, active, closeout and auditing stages and ensures compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies. Work closely with Project Directors throughout the award process to ensure the ultimate transaction will accomplish the intended programmatic mission and continues such effort throughout closeout.
- Interpret the impact of changes in applicable laws and regulations on the administration process. Identifies and resolves problems. Ensure award actions meet both the legal and supervisory review requirements. Project are typically multi-year in length with multiple budget periods, various funding sources, and several different partners.
- Implement policies and procedures in accordance with applicable regulations and guidance and serves as the focal point for interpretation of these policies and procedures with recipients and DOE program/project staff. Ensure that current, accurate, and complete data is entered into electronic data systems, as applicable. Participate, as needed, in process improvement teams, peer reviews of financial assistance actions, and performs collateral duty assignments.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
- Subject to satisfactory security and suitability requirements.
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
- Positions may be filled as permanent, term, or temporary with a full-time or part-time work schedule. Pay will vary by geographic location.
- The vacancies filled through these appointments have varying levels of background investigative requirements, up to a Top Secret DOE "Q" clearance.
- These positions are to be filled under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Inflation Reduction Act or Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) direct hire authority.
- Positions may be covered by a bargaining unit. Bargaining unit will vary by departmental element, grade, and/or location.

**Qualifications**:
**SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR GS-07**:You must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes**:

- Working closely with Project Officers/Project Engineers throughout the grant award process to ensure the ultimate transaction will accomplish the intended programmatic mission and continues such efforts throughout closeout.; **AND**:

- Ensuring that current, accurate, and complete data is entered into electronic data systems, as applicable.

OR EDUCATION: 1 full year of graduate level education; OR SUPERIOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: Based on a Bachelor's degree that is demonstrated through class standing (upper 1/3 of class); grade point average (3.0/4.0 overall or 3.5/4.0 in major), or election to membership in a qualifying national scholastic honor society.
- OR COMBINATION: You may qualify on a combination of education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the specialized experience requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the educational requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
- **SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR GS-09**:You must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes**:

- Assisting in the preparation of all documentation required for financial assistance awards.; **AND**:

- Negotiating some aspects of awards in accordance with applicable regulations.

OR EDUCATION: Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.B. or J.D., if related.
- OR COMBINATION: You may qualify on a combination of education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required gr