The City of Redmond is a thriving, culturally diverse community and home to over 80,000 residents. Redmond is the hub of an array of commerce and industry ranging from technology, aerospace, and gaming to biomedical and innovation start-ups.
The Grant Supervisor will develop a comprehensive citywide grant program. Creating streamlined processes, policies, and systems for state and federal grant application writing, awarding, financial and operation oversight, and reporting ensuring compliance and efficiency in all aspects. Providing leadership for managing the City’s growing grant portfolio. This position will focus on developing, implementing, and overseeing city grants for the Executive, Planning and Community Development, Public Works, Parks & Recreation, Fire, and Police departments including both state and federal funding. The Incumbent acts as a liaison for the City and interacts with other agencies and departments, and will provide advice to departments on sources, types, legitimate uses, and availability of grant funds.
This is a hybrid/onsite position.
This position is full-time and might require some weekends and evenings.
- Supervise grant writer employees and contracted staff
- Prioritize and manage workload and timelines
- Develop and implement processes and procedures to streamline the grants and contracts management process.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and policies related to grants and contracts
- Provide grant research, opportunities, procurement, and compliance expertise while ensuring the City can meet all grant requirements
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with staff, grantors, and contractors to facilitate efficient and effective communication
- Collaborate with staff and community organizations to identify and pursue new grant opportunities.
- Write, submit, and manage grant applications to secure funding
- Review and analyze grant and contract proposals to determine feasibility and alignment with city goals, priorities, and equity-based programs
- Coordinate with the Finance department to manage all aspects of the grant process, including reporting, compliance, and ensuring the position is self-funded through secured grants.
- Coordinate with leadership and other stakeholders to align grant proposals with departmental budget needs and priorities.
- Collaborate with other city departments on interdepartmental grant funding opportunities
- Act as the citywide point-of-contact for communication between staff and grantors
- Train and mentor team members on grant and contract compliance and management
- Conduct internal and facilitate external audits to ensure compliance and identify any potential issues or areas for improvement
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Extensive experience writing and managing federal and state grants
- Detail-oriented and organized
- Supervisory experience
- Strong understanding of relevant grant sources
- Familiarity of sources of organization data
- Principles and practices of grant budgeting
- Grant proposal submissions and fundraising processes
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Legislation governing Grant contracts
Abilities to
- Work independently with minimal oversight
- Effectively supervise one or more grant writers
- Proactively identify what needs to be done and acted upon independently while also recognizing and offering help when staff needs support
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, including city officials, team members, grantors, and contractors
- Manage multiple projects and shift quickly when priorities change
- Prioritize and manage a large workload with conflicting deadlines
- Study and understand City programs, operations, and funding
- Establish and maintain effective collaborative working relationships with coworkers, funding agencies, and others.
- Listen and communicate respectfully and effectively both orally and in writing with people who have different levels of technical understanding of grants
Education and Experience
- Three years of increasingly responsible experience in related field, with a minimum of two years’ experience in grant writing, and supervising; or demonstrated leadership experience or team lead experience.
- High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor’s degree in program related field preferred,
- Any equivalent combination of education, experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Public sector experience preferred
Licenses and Certificates
- Licenses and certificates specific to the assigned program may be required
Other
This class description describes the general nature of the work performed, representative duties as well as the typical qualifications needed for acceptable performance. It is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of the job.
Please review the Grant Supervisor job description for more information about the knowledge, skills, abilities, working conditions, and physical requirements.
Selection Process
- All applicants will be notified of their application status.
- Top candidates will be contacted to participate in the next phase of selection process, which may include testing and/or an interview.
- Note, the City may review existing application pools to fill this position or use this pool to fill future vacancies.
Offers of employment are conditional based on the candidate successfully passing both background and reference checks. Internal candidates are subject to passing a new background if the previous check was conducted more than six months ago.
Additionally, new hires relocating to the area are required to have Washington State residency within 30 days of their start date to comply payroll tax purposes.
Our employees earn competitive wages and enjoy an exceptional benefits package that includes:
- MEDICAL INSURANCE - Choice of two plans for employees and their eligible dependents: Premera or Kaiser Permanente. All employee healthcare premiums paid for by the City of Redmond.
- PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE - Included with each medical plan
- DENTAL INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
- VISION INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
- OTHER INSURANCE - Life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance
- FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS - For tax savings on healthcare and dependent care expenses
- PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS – with (13) paid holidays per year
- EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)
- RETIREMENT PLANS - Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) plus additional options that include: Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (Social Security replacement plan) and MetLife 457 Plan
- Annual COLA adjustments
- Annual merit increases of up to 5%
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