Grant Manager

Quality Staffing•Nashville, TN

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Quality Staffing, Inc., also doing business as Goddard Mason Executive Search, a leading full-service employment agency matching qualified talent with some of the area's top companies, is looking for an experienced Administrative Services Manager/Grant Manager to work through our agency as a contract employee with the Tennessee Department of Health (TN DOH) located in Nashville, TN. This is a hybrid position working from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday for a total of 37.5 hours per week. The pay rate for this position is $28.50 per hour. The Grant Manager role will support CEDEP and BGM by leading grant application development, coordinating award startup activities, monitoring budgets and expenditures, and ensuring required programmatic and financial reporting is completed accurately and on time. This position serves as a key coordination point between program leadership, fiscal partners, contracts, procurement, and federal funders to keep grant activities compliant, well documented, and on schedule. In-office work will be required for this position so candidates must be local to the Nashville area.

Requirements

Experience with grant application development, grant management, budgeting, accounting, or contract management.
Experience interpreting federal funding requirements, grant awards, reporting instructions, or fiscal guidance.
Strong Excel skills, including the ability to maintain expenditure reports, analyze variances, and support projections.
Experience coordinating work across program, fiscal, procurement, and leadership stakeholders.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with internal teams, external partners, and leadership.
Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, track deadlines, follow up consistently, and maintain accurate records.
Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgement, and complete assignments with minimal revision.
Candidates must be local to the Nashville area.

Responsibilities

Lead & Coordinate Grant Applications from NOFO Review through Submission
Post-Award Startup & Implementation
Maintain Budget Integrity & Financial Readiness
Lead Reporting & Grant Closeout
Lead Stakeholder Communications & Fiscal Governance
Provide general administrative support, including drafting letters and routing signature requests.
Respond to fiscal, legislative, and oversight requests by compiling accurate, supportable data and maintaining an audit trail.