Grants & Compliance Officer

Will be fully remote while building is constructed, then will become hybrid

The Grants & Compliance Officer in the Grants and Contracts Division of Management and Budget will monitor Wayne County’s compliance with general and specific grant requirements contained in the various Federal, State and local grants awarded to the organization which may include traveling to sub-recipients. This position will interpret regulations and policies for the departments, monitor funded projects to prevent over-expenditure of funds, audit disallowance and ensure awards are fully awarded, and perform related duties as assigned.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Review grants, cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements activities related to the initiation, administration, and/or close-out of a variety of grants, cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements (IAGs), including responsibility for monitoring performance.
• Experience with grant reporting, reimbursements, budgeting, compliance
• Main duties include:
• Tracking Compliance Reporting Requirements
• Project Management
• External Reporting to Government Agencies
• Management of the Reporting Calendar
• Management of the Compliance Reporting Archive
• Management of vendor payments
• Other duties as assigned by the Director or Division Director of Grants and Contracts

Requirements

Job Skills & Qualifications

• Knowledge of Microsoft excel, project management systems, collaborative apps
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling; leadership technique, production methods and coordination of people and resources.
• Concepts of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process
• Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Ability to analyze financial records or reports to determine state of operations, to improve budgeting and/or planning, to improve efficiency, to improve business decisions and/or minimize losses or damages.
• Ability to learn to prepare financial documents, reports or budgets.
• Ability to learn to prepare operational progress or status reports.