Senior Consultant/Grants Manager

Company Overview:

ASI Government provides government leaders with the expertise they need to navigate grants and organizational challenges so they can make an impact and achieve their goals. For over 25 years, ASI has transformed the way government does business, impacting over 70 government agencies across the state and federal communities.

Do you thrive on creating unique and impactful value for government clients? Are you passionate about partnering with clients and collaborating to create solutions? Do you enjoy the opportunity to drive change that impacts our nation?

We are looking for smart, curious, driven individuals to join us in partnering with our client to help them solve some of the nation's most challenging problems.

ASI Government serves as a trusted adviser to government leaders seeking improved performance, enhanced organization effectiveness, and strategic change.

We are actively recruiting for a Senior Consultant/Grants Manager who will lead the design, implementation, management, and monitoring of a high-visibility over $30 M state Preschool Development Grant (PDG) program supporting children and families across North Carolina.

Responsibilities:

• Bring deep expertise in the design, administration, and monitoring of grant programs.

• Provide overarching program management, ensuring successful program execution.

• Employ project management best practices to guide and track program initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, elevating risks, grant/contract closeout and employing continuous quality improvement to identify effective solutions.

• Ensure grant activities meet federal guidelines and requirements.

• Develop and execute RFAs/RFPs, contracts, and agreements with sub-contractors

• Design standardized reporting templates and monitoring dashboards utilizing Microsoft Word and Excel in a Microsoft Teams/SharePoint environment to collect data from subrecipients and report progress to clients.

• Develop standardized financial status reporting tool to document the overall grant budget, expenditures, and spending forecasts over the grant period.

• Support contract monitoring by completing periodic programmatic monitoring reports to document contractor's progress and potential issues and elevate risks to contract and grant compliance.

• Coordinate and facilitate close communication between subrecipients, state client, and federal funder to track progress and risks towards key grant milestones and outcomes.

• Draft and write high-quality, outcomes-driven state and federal grant reports.

• Develop hard-hitting communication messages and materials, crisp PowerPoint decks, and executive briefings.

• Draft, review and submit future continuation applications for federal funding.

• Coordinate, schedule, design and facilitate client meetings, including periodic virtual and in-person meetings engaging grant partners, stakeholders and grantees.

• Drive critical project actions forward on behalf of the client.

• Lead ongoing capture and tracking of meeting notes, actions, and decisions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited college or university in a related field.

• Eight or more years' experience providing grant management for federal or state agencies, including designing, implementing, managing, and monitoring grants.

• Experience drafting and implementing state contracts (including scope of works, performance measures, and itemized budget narratives).

• Strong data analysis skillset, with mastery in Excel.

• Strong writer with proven experience writing hard-hitting state or federal grant reports.

• Proven experience managing multiple grant recipients to ensure grant outcomes are achieved across grantees.

• Client-facing experience to include supporting client status meetings, follow-up with clients on next steps, and writing crisp and clear client communications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of management consulting experience

• Project Management certification

• Exposure/experience in Early Childhood Education field

LOCATION: Primarily remote, however, the client is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and will expect this employee to attend periodic in-person convenings (e.g., meetings, conferences, trainings, and partner events) as held (estimated to be once per month).

DESIRED START DATE: ASAP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Now through December 31, 2024, with client planning to renew from January 2025-September 2025 upon NC award of new PDG grant, and then again from October 2025-September 2026 and October 2026-September 2027. All combined with expected growth on our State and Local grants management work (i.e. Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina growth opportunities).

Equal Opportunity: ASI Government is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. To view the EEO Is the Law Poster, click here.

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ASI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process please send an email to HR@asigovt.com or call 703-253-6300 and let us know the nature of your request.