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Senior Grant Manager Job Description

Civix Consulting Group (CCG) is a professional services and technology firm based in New Orleans, Louisiana. CCG is a nationally recognized leader in disaster recovery and resilience, community planning and development, infrastructure services, and technology. With more than 40 years of experience and a dedicated team of multi-disciplinary practitioners, CCG helps governments, utilities, and nonprofits navigate complex federal and state requirements and administer programs, grants, and projects of varied scale and purpose. CCG combines deep policy expertise with tech-enabled services to maximize impacts, deliver innovative solutions, ensure regulatory compliance, and empower customers to more effectively serve their citizens and communities.

The Senior Grant Manager role requires an individual with a background in the development, management, and oversight of grant funded programs at the federal, state, or local level. The position will lead or support programs and projects funded through multiple grant programs, including recurring and one-time funding from federal and state agencies. This role will primarily work with HUD funding sources, including CDBG, CDBGDR, HOME, and CDBG-CV. This role is fully remote with travel as necessary on a project-by-project basis.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead project and task management activities, including developing project work plans and managing the completion of work products.
• Review and summarize state and federal regulations. • Lead and support compliance monitoring engagements of grantees and their subrecipients.
• Provide expert level technical assistance to grantees and their subrecipients.
• Design and implement federally funded housing, economic development, infrastructure, planning, climate adaptation, clean energy, or public services programs.
• Conduct research and analysis and develop and deliver presentations for clients, stakeholders, and the public.
• Draft plans, reports, and assessments based on research and analysis.
• Support the development of client facing documents, such as policies and procedures, checklists, forms, and administrative guidance.
• Draft documents, memos, letters, and other formal communications to clients.
• Lead or support the preparation for meetings or workshops.
• Capture and compile notes from internal meetings and meetings with clients.
• Support Project Managers in the delivery of services to clients

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree and five years of experience working on one more of the following activities funded with HUD funding: disaster recovery, mitigation and resilience, community development, housing (HOME or CDBG), economic development, infrastructure, or public services.
• Ability to work collaboratively, communicate effectively, and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and capable of retrieving, analyzing, and synthesizing data in a meaningful way.
• Thorough knowledge of grant program regulations.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Organized and able to lead and manage multiple task assignments independently with limited oversight.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to accommodate client meetings in various time zones.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of best practices, lessons learned, and challenges for community development activity, project, and program design and development.
• Understanding of program implementation and oversight responsibilities.
• Experience coordinating monitoring teams and conducting reviews or audits of grant and program documentation to determine compliance with applicable state or federal administrative and programmatic requirements, such as 2 CFR 200.
• Experience in development and implementation of grant documents, such as administrative and programmatic policies and procedures, and developing monitoring reports or responses to audits.
• Understanding of federal cross-cutting requirements, including Section 3, Davis Bacon, and section 508 compliance.

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