Overview

  • Accepting applications

Locations

few vacancies in the following locations:

  • Anchorage, AK
  • Sacramento, CA
  • Hadley, MA
  • Portland, OR

Duties

Summary

This position will serve as a Grants Management Specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration (WSFR) Program, to provide pre-award, award, post-award, and close-out functions in support of various financial assistance programs.

This position is also open to the public under announcement MR-21-11049079-IS-DE. You must apply to each announcement separately if you wish to be considered under both recruitment methods.

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Responsibilities

As a Grants Management Specialist your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

  • Perform detailed budget analysis to determine the allowability, allocability, and reasonableness under applicable cost principles and their relationship to the objectives of proposed project.
  • Receive, review, and evaluate all applications for assigned programs to ensure that proposals/agreements conform to law, regulations, Bureau and DOI policy and are consistent with the published NOFO.
  • Review recipient requests for modifications to the agreement, coordinate and facilitate legitimate requested revisions, and process applicable documentation for executing agreement modifications.
  • Respond to data calls, coordinate preparation for audits and reviews, handle the more complex, politically sensitive, higher-risk, unprecedented or unique financial assistance actions.
  • Administer, modify, and terminate financial assistance actions, and perform budget analysis functions from simple to complex.
  • Perform and monitor close-out of agreements which includes reconciling financial information and processing a funding de-obligation, if required.
  • Provide technical assistance, attend meetings and conferences of interest to financial assistance community; and assist with training and business management assistance to program staff, applicants, and recipients.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
  • Individuals assigned male at birth after 12-31-59 must be registered for the Selective Service. To verify registration visit SSS.gov.
  • Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply).
  • Merit promotion applicants must meet time-in-grade requirement as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.
  • Suitability for employment, as determined by background investigation.
  • Probationary Period: Selectees may be required to successfully complete a probationary period.

Qualifications

Only experience and education obtained by 03/16/2021 will be considered.

Minimum Qualification [GS-12]

One year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility equivalent to grade GS-11 in the Federal service. Experience may include: applying principles and procedures for pre-award, post-award, and close-out functions in support of various financial assistance programs; reviewing financial assistance grants or cooperative agreements to ensure compliance with all financial assistance rules and regulations; providing training or mentoring staff, or providing guidance on policy and regulation to help resolve financial assistance award or report issues; reviewing and analyzing grant budgets to ensure costs are allowable; and analyzing grant or cooperative agreement financial assistance information in an automated financial assistance system.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Time In Grade Requirement: Applicants must meet both eligibility and qualification requirements for the position of interest by the closing date of the JOA. Specifically,
i. Area of Consideration.
ii. Time-in-grade (TIG) requirements as specified in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.
iii. Time after competitive appointment as specified in 5 CFR 330.502.
iv. Qualification requirements outlined in OPM’s Qualifications Standards for General Schedule Positions or for Federal Wage System (FWS), wage grade positions, applicants are evaluated using the OPM Job Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupations and the job element examining method
Your SF-50 will be used to confirm you meet all requirements

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP):Department of Interior (DOI) Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) procedures apply in filling this vacancy. CTAP/ICTAP provides placement assistance to permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separated. Applicants claiming CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit a copy of their most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location with their application. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, applicants must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualification requirements, including any selective placement factors; education, and experience requirements), score at least 85 on the assessment questionnaire, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry.

For information on CTAP and ICTAP visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/”

The Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA),P.L. 114-47, allows certain individuals who currently or formerly were under time-limited competitive appointments at certain land management agencies to compete under merit promotion procedures.

Note: You must submit ALL SF-50s and performance information for each period of temporary/term employment that qualifies for LMWFA. Performance documentation can be obtained by contacting the supervisors for the positions you served in during your 24 months. If they did not complete performance appraisals ask them to provide a statement of performance for each period of service. The statement must specify the dates for each employment period and your level of performance (dates should match the dates on the SF-50s).

Current appointees:

  • Must have been hired under competitive examining procedures to a time limited appointment with a land management agency;
  • Must have served under 1 or more time limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of 2 or more years; AND
  • Must have performed at an acceptable level.

Former appointees:

  • Must have been hired under competitive examining procedures to a time limited appointment with a land management agency;
  • Must have served under 1 or more time limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of 2 or more years;
  • Must apply for position within 2 years after separation;
  • Must have been separated for reasons other than misconduct or performance; AND
  • Must have performed at an acceptable level.

Public Land Corps (PLC) Hiring Authority: Served as a qualified youth on an appropriate conservation project completing a minimum of 640 hours of satisfactory service that included at least 120 hours through the PLC and received a certificate of non-competitive eligibility. Completed most recent Corps service, for which a certificate of non-competitive eligibility was issued, within the last 2 years. Appointment must be effected within the 2 year period.

Education

There is no education substitution.