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Supervisory Grants Management Specialist
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Posted 53 days ago
Hybrid Atlanta, GA $113K – $146K Apply by Aug 17, 2026 Grants Management ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Operations
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In this position, you will work as a member of the Region Four, Grants Programs Division Team. The ideal candidate will have experience as a grants leader, skilled in supervising staff, managing award lifecycles, ensuring compliance, resolving complex issues, and improving grant operations.
What You'll Do
- →What will I do in this position if hired?
- →In this position, you will provide technical guidance and supervisory oversight for staff performing work that involves implementing and managing federal grants and cooperative agreements.
- →Typical assignments include: Supervising and guiding grants management staff: Planning and assigning work, setting priorities, tracking progress, reviewing work products, resolving work problems, evaluating performance, approving leave, and providing coaching, counseling, and training to subordinate Grants Management Specialists.
- →Overseeing grants and cooperative agreement administration.
- →Conducting and overseeing recipient monitoring and risk assessment: Analyzing performance reports, conducting recipient risk assessments.
- →Providing expert technical assistance and policy interpretation.
- →Developing improvements to grants management processes and controls: Reviewing regional grants procedures, policies, internal controls, and process flows.
- →What else do I need to know?
- →At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management.
- →Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites.
- →All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description.
- →Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
Requirements
- ✓To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy.
- ✓To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Public Trust/Moderate Risk as a condition of placement into this position.
- ✓This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).
- ✓For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.
- ✓The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.
- ✓If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
- ✓Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below.
- ✓Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- ✓You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- ✓Selective Service registration required.
- ✓Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- ✓You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.
- ✓Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 0d469430-6120-4b2d-9b35-6e24be0aaa6c
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