Senior Grant Manager

IEM is looking to bring on a Full Time Senior Grants Manager who will be responsible for managing federally funded programs to ensure compliance and meeting established deliverables, inclusive of oversight and monitoring of subrecipients.

Primary Location:

• Preference will be given to candidates who reside in California.
• Candidates may reside outside of the state of California but must be able to travel to CA when needed at a program office location.
• Hybrid work schedule: remote and in-office, based on business needs (1-5 days per week).

Travel Requirements:

• This position may require travel to complete work assignments or attend meetings.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrate strong leadership and managerial abilities, including providing staff training, building accountability, excellent communication skills and commitment to teamwork and excellence in responsibilities.
• Lead and supervise team members and build collaborative processes with support teams such as engineering, environmental, construction management, marketing and accounting specialists.
• Establish and monitor project timelines, budgets, and performance metrics to ensure successful delivery and compliance with state and federal funding agency guidelines.
• Remain current and knowledgeable of active CA CDBG-DR programs, including funding, plans, and implementation policies and procedures.
• Attend stakeholder meetings to include internal and external governance, committee meetings and workgroups as necessary.
• Facilitate regular meetings with stakeholders to ensure proper project management and spend of all available funding.
• Provide training, technical and administrative guidance on all work requirements and methods, executing applicable regulations and subrecipient award terms and conditions.
• Prepare and/or review information and reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and/or review and modify policies and procedures across all grant life cycle processes in accordance with government regulations and organization needs and objectives.
• Create effective monitoring tools to ensure compliance with all grant life cycle processes and develop subrecipient monitoring procedures that are compliant with federal and other applicable regulations and consistent with sound business practices.
• Perform grants management duties to manage and monitor subawards, subrecipients and projects.
• Direct human resources and management activities and determine the staffing levels needed to accomplish the operational tasks.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and experience working with CDBG grant programs.
• A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in project management, accounting, finance, management, business or public administration, legal or closely related field.
• Five (5) years of experience with federal grants management and demonstrated experience ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations.
• Substitution: A master's degree from an accredited institution in a related field may substitute for two (2) years of the required program experience.
• Three (3) years of experience with managing staff and high-performance teams.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that demonstrates the required knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to effectively perform the duties and functions of this position may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of California programs related to Housing, Infrastructure/Public Facilities, and Migrant Workers.
• Knowledge of labor compliance requirements - including Section 3, Davis-Bacon, and Certified Payroll.
• Knowledge of the Uniform Relocation Act and associated activities for housing program delivery.
• Knowledge of federally funded grant programs such as FEMA HMGP, Treasury ARPA, and CARES Act grants.
• Experience working with DRGR.

Benefits and more:

• Annual salary based on experience and location: $150,000 - $165,000
• 10 paid Holidays
• Vacation Pay
• Sick Pay
• 401 (K) plan with matching
• Company paid STD and LTD

Additional Location and Travel Information:

• Internet Requirements: All remote work environments require the ability to maintain minimum Internet speeds of 25 Mbps upload and 3 Mbps download, as well as a ping rate of 100 ms or less during working hours, regardless of the type and number of devices using your Internet connection. You must also have account privileges and access to your Internet service provider account during working hours for the purposes of maintaining the Internet connection, if needed.