Senior Grant Management Program Specialist (OIT Only - Remote from anywhere in Colorado)
- State of Colorado Job Opportunities
- Denver, CO, USA
- $77,500 - $92,000 yearly
Job Description
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Description of Job
OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Contractors currently engaged at OIT do not qualify as employees.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT’s hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT’s hiring team.
Do you want to make our beautiful state even better? The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado. As our new Senior Grant Management Program Specialist you will have the chance to develop, implement, and administer the Grant Management program activities and functions and provide subject matter expertise to program staff, other agencies, the community, and program participants. If you are a grant management guru, this could be the opportunity you are looking for!
Some of the day to day opportunities include:
Acting as a technical expert in grant management, serving as an expert resource by performing legislative and/or policy analysis of issues and formulating approaches and plans to address identified issues, and briefs management on concerns and issues by providing information required for decision making.
Leading the development and implementation of performance criteria for the program area and evaluating the program’s performance in meeting goals and objectives.
Assist in developing and implementing policies, procedures, business practices, and control mechanisms, reviews status of operations, modifies and implements procedures to increase operating efficiency, and determines effectiveness of desired results.
Reviewing grant applications including technical documentation, financial information, operating plans, and financial forecasting.
Tracking grant agreements, project milestones, closeout, and agreement expiration dates.
Conducting comprehensive needs assessments by auditing and evaluating program progress to determine if the program is achieving its objectives.
Analyzing program data, identifying actual and potential problem areas, trends, areas of imbalance, and related factors that impact a program, and preparing comprehensive reports of findings including solutions and recommendations for upper management.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Applications are not accepted from contractors engaged in work for OIT, or any state entity, as contractors are not employees.
A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis.
This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:
Minimum Qualifications:
A minimum of five (5) years of professional or technical level experience planning and implementing the administrative aspects of a program(s) or comparable duties, to include previous experience reviewing grants related to Broadband technology in the State government sector.
Substitutions:
Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated expertise and understanding of federal grants policies.
Advanced Excel skills including familiarity with Pivot Tables, formulas (VLOOKUP), data validation, and logic statements to conduct complex data analysis.
Conditions of Employment:
OIT candidates and employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.
A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.
This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.
This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position.
Supplemental Information
While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.
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The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at OIT_HR@state.co.us or call (303) 764-7900.
This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.
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