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Grants Management Consultant

MD, US | $81K - $134K

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Qualifications

  • Experience delivering and facilitating grant trainings
  • Experience drafting grants work instructions, procedures, and templates
  • Proven ability to lead teams, organize tasks, and communicate effectively
  • Familiarity with USAID grants rules and regulations
  • Ability to be flexible per changing demands and priorities
  • Ability to travel on short notice for up to 6 weeks

Responsibilities

  • The Consultant will work with Creative HQ Grants Department and Creative projects in need of support during start-up, implementation and close-out
  • Support recruitment and onboarding efforts for grants staff (review CVs, shortlist candidates, participate in interviews, conduct trainings)
  • Support the development of project grant manuals (develop drafts based on Creative templates, provide comments and observations, address comments)
  • Support the development of a grant operationalization strategy based on project workplans
  • Launch initial grant activities and guide project teams through the process (market research, developing NOFOs, reviewing applications, conducting evaluations, negotiations, due diligence) from Pre-award to award
  • Provide support for market research efforts
  • Ensure project staff are prepared for grant kick-off meetings
  • Implementation Tasks
  • Provide surge support as needed to projects including serving as Acting Project Grant Manager
  • Support the update of operational Plan ensuring it’s aligned with Project’s workplan, including review (update) tracking system
  • Conduct file checks during project implementation
  • Review grant packages for internal Creative approvals
  • Conduct ad-hoc trainings
  • Analyze project activity cycles and provide recommendations
  • Close Out Tasks
  • Conduct document reviews ensuring all minimum required documentation per Creative manuals and policies are in grant files
  • Identify risks to Creative and propose solutions
  • Review financial documentation of grants to ensure costs billed are in line with donor cost principles
  • Support the reconciliation and deobligation of grant funds
  • Review grants data in various systems (SMART, SharePoint, and donor databases) to ensure documents and data are consistent across platforms
  • Identify any gaps in documentation and support the development of notes to file
  • Support the coordination and planning of grant close out targets with HQ Grants and project leadership
  • Coordinate closely with other support departments (at HQ and in projects) to coordinate the
  • Support HQ Grants’ oversight in the compliant use of SMART (Creative’s grant management platform), in
  • Support Creative’s HQ Grant Department initiatives such as: updating templates, work instructions, and tools
  • Other similar tasks to be mutually agreed between Creative and the Consultant
  • Attending weekly start-up/close out/coordination calls and providing
  • Providing regular updates to the HQ Grants POC and project leadership
  • Setting up the project SharePoint filing system and developing the document management plan
  • Training new staff on USG rules and regulations and Creative’s grant policies
  • Contribute to regular HQ Grants Department
  • Submitting a detailed handover report with outstanding action items, challenges faced, and recommendations

Company information

Consulting.com is an E-Learning platform that helps everyday people become highly paid consultants & live lives of freedom.

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51-200 employees
Professional Services, Education, Business Services, E-Learning, Training
Privately Held
New York, New York
Company Specialties:
Online Education / E-Learning, Mindset and paradigm rewiring, and Helping everyday people become high paid consultants