Grants Management Consultant

About the role

AlphaGov, a public-sector consulting firm serving cities, counties, school systems, special districts and utilities, is looking for a Grants Management Consultant for remote, project-based work with public agencies and related organizations. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel, and there is no guaranteed assignment. The position is contingent on contract award and final staffing approval.

Key responsibilities

• Support grant-management assessments, policy updates and post-award administration design
• Review how an agency tracks applications, awards, drawdowns, reporting and closeout
• Identify control gaps in allowability, matching, subrecipient monitoring and documentation
• Draft procedures and roles that grants and finance staff can follow
• Advise on the system fields and reports an agency needs, without implementing every system
• Contribute grants qualifications and past-performance narratives to proposals only when named as an expert collaborator
• Apply federal, state and local grant rules you have actually applied

Required profile

• Experience managing or advising post-award grants administration for a public agency or pass-through entity
• At least two grant programs or agencies you can describe, including your role
• Ability to write procedures a grants office can use
• Comfortable working as a 1099 project-based collaborator with occasional client travel

Required skills

• Working knowledge of allowability, matching, reporting and subrecipient monitoring
• Nice to have: Uniform Guidance experience on federal pass-through funds
• Nice to have: experience with a grants management system used by a city, county, state or school system