Grants Manager

About This Role

This Grants Manager role is an exciting opportunity within the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, one of the largest prosecutors' offices in the country. The position involves managing an existing portfolio of grants, identifying new funding opportunities, overseeing pre- and post-award activities, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. The successful candidate will maintain relationships with funders and support the Fiscal Bureau team.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the existing portfolio of grants and funding levels, monitoring external and internal changes that could affect funding
• Grow the agency’s portfolio of grants, working with key internal personnel to identify potential grant opportunities and determine appropriateness of fit
• Oversee and review pre- and post-award activities to assure budgetary appropriateness, financial reporting accuracy, and compliance of grant expenditures to applicable funder guidelines and governmental directives
• Establish mechanisms for preparing, managing, and monitoring project expenditures and ensuring budgetary integrity and control
• Manage the agency’s grant application process, establishing timelines and required elements for each proposal, ensuring deadlines are met, and assuming final full preparation and submission of the grant manuscript
• Implement standards, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and private regulations governing grants
• Draft written documentation of required processes, procedures, and activities
• Collaborate with external agencies and internal personnel to ensure compliance
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve complex compliance-related risks and issues in a timely manner
• Maintain relationships with funders and stay abreast of all agency notices and updates, as well as upcoming changes in regulatory rules in connection with all post-award matters
• Analyze and fully assess impacts of changes for KCDA, including the need for written communications, updates, and changes in policies, procedures, and business processes
• Support KCDA Fiscal Bureau team members to produce financial reports and analyses for internal and external stakeholders
• Forecast expenditures on all grants, track expenditures, and reconcile grant budgets and expenditures annually

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business, or public administration and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal management
• OR a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal management