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Lead Grants Management Specialist
Forest Service · Posted 110 days ago
On-site Salt Lake City, UT $106K – $138K Apply by Jun 23, 2026 Grants Management ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Operations
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This position is located with USDA Forest Service, Business Operations, Acquisition Management, Grants and Agreements Staff. This position as a Grants Management Policy Specialist responsible for researching and analyzing policies, drafting and revising Handbook and Manual direction, evaluating policy impacts, and presenting findings to leadership. Leads a team to complete the program of work. For more information about this position; please contact sm.fs.nationalhire@usda.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Performs grants and agreements policy and oversight, analyzes and evaluates GA matters.
- →Provides definitive advice and guidance on GA matters to project managers and Grants Management Specialists.
- →Provides advice and guidance on AQM systems implementations, upgrades, and implementation of business process changes with AQM systems.
- →Analyzes the certification process, reviews and recommends certification of Grants Management Specialists, and writes policy in accordance with certification requirements and programming.
- →Serves as liaison between the Agency and US Department of Agriculture, and between the Washington Office and the field.
- →Participates in financial audits, Office of the Inspector General audits, and other external reviews.
- →Supports internal process reviews of GA activities as a review team member or policy expert.
- →Training includes in-person, webinars and asynchronous training platforms.
- →Supports various initiatives relating to GA administration across the agency in different Deputy Chief areas.
- →Serves on and/or leads interdepartmental or interagency GA policy task groups and subcommittees.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- ✓Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Personality Fit
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