Grants Manager (Office of Violence Prevention)

City of St. Louis, MO•Saint Louis, MO

38d

About The Position

The City of St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) seeks a highly motivated, detail-oriented professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills, analytical skills, and a strong commitment to creating safe and healthy communities in St. Louis. The Grants Manager will oversee the securing and administration of grant funds as well as contract compliance and data reporting. The Grants Manager will supervise Contract Compliance Officers and a Government Services Analyst. The person in this role will develop a deep understanding of community needs and will work to ensure that staff and funded organization are meeting those needs.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Public Administration, Business Administration, , or a closely related social science field; plus four years of grants and contracts administration experience
Experience and Training: 100%
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Nice To Haves

experience with Salesforce.

Responsibilities

Oversees management of contracts and data reporting for all programs funded by OVP to assess performance, resolve complex problems, and ensures the delivery of quality services.
Manages all aspects of grant management and reporting.
Plans, organizes, assigns, directs, reviews, and evaluates the work activities of subordinate staff to realize the OVP's goals.
Works closely with Contract Compliance Officers to ensure city and program staff compliance with funders, regulations, and guidelines.
Applies change, risk and resource management principles when needed.
Oversees public reporting and support program evaluation efforts, as needed.
Conducts site visit to ensure compliance.
Represents OVP at meetings and events.
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor, in favor of a desired outcome. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate a variety of office equipment such as computer terminal, typewriter, telephone, fax machine, calculator/adding machine, computer printer and photocopier.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as grant applications, billing statements, audit reports, client records, vouchers, production reports, statistical reports, regulations, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; interpret and develop descriptive statistical reports.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions.
Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing five (5) to ten (10) pounds. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of sounds to communicate with others.