About This Role
The Grant Writer performs professional administrative work by actively seeking out grant opportunities that meet the City's needs, writing proposals, securing funding, and monitoring and submitting timely, accurate reports for new and existing grant-funded projects. This role involves coordinating activities for City Departments in applying for and receiving intergovernmental assistance.
Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and supervise programs and activities related to specific grant programs
- Coordinate activities for City Departments in monitoring, applying for, and receiving intergovernmental assistance
- Administer activities of the City in compiling and inventorying existing grants
- Coordinate current grant programs and maintain reporting requirements
- Identify new sources of funding through Federal, State, Local, and private sector agencies
- Assist City departments in the preparation of new and existing grant applications
- Prepare implementation strategies for each grant to be handed over to the department responsible for implementing the grant
- Follow up with appropriate personnel and staff to resolve issues
- Work with legislators and public officials, attend public hearings, and make presentations to secure grant funds
- Perform contract compliance with assistance of the Finance Department, including budget preparation, quarterly reports, budget revisions, and program audits
- Perform program evaluation with City department heads or development agencies upon project closeout
- Prepare reports for the Mayor or designee
- Perform mid-level data analysis, including reviewing, classifying, categorizing, prioritizing, and referencing data, statutes, and guidelines
- Provide guidance, assistance, and interpretation to co-workers and the public on applying policies, procedures, and standards to specific situations
- Utilize a variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information such as reports, budgets, requests, deposits, manuals, procedures, guidelines, and non-routine correspondence
- Communicate orally and in writing with the Mayor, Department Heads, Public Officials, City personnel, auditors, financial institutions, and the public
- Perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate percentages and decimals; and potentially perform mathematical operations with fractions, algebra, and statistics
- Operate, calibrate, tune, synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery, and tools such as a computer and other office machines
- Coordinate eyes, hands, feet, and limbs in performing skilled movements such as rapid keyboard use
- Exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling of objects weighing five to ten pounds
