Grant Manager
6 - 10 years
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Hybrid
1 month ago
About the role
The Grant Manager supports 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.
Key Responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.
iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate grant applications from NOFO review through submission
- Review NOFO, NOA, and FOA requirements, including evaluation criteria, attachments, formatting rules, and submission methods.
- Create and maintain application timelines, checklists, SharePoint folder structure, and version control.
- Schedule and facilitate application kickoff meetings with program leadership and contributors.
- Track action items, follow up on missing components, and manage draft-to-final progression.
- Coordinate budget development, budget justification, and alignment with allowable costs.
- Compile narrative sections, required attachments, and certifications; perform final quality checks for completeness, formatting, naming conventions, and consistency.
- Review/enter application information into the appropriate submission platform, coordinate submission logistics.
- Post-award startup and implementation
- Review award terms and conditions and document key requirements such as budget period, reporting cadence, restrictions, match, carryover, and prior approvals.
- Meet with program leadership to discuss NOA terms and startup needs.
- Communicate budget structure, cost restrictions, and reporting expectations to program staff.
- Prepare and submit expansion requests when new funding requires formal or informal permission to accept or implement.
- Track post-award decisions and maintain documentation for audit readiness.
- Ensure internal partners have the information needed to initiate compliant actions, including contracts, procurements, travel, staffing changes, and approvals.
- Maintain budget integrity and financial readiness
- Build and maintain monthly expenditure reports and budget projections.
- Analyze staffing patterns to support accurate personnel cost forecasting.
- Identify discrepancies early and coordinate corrections through the appropriate process, including journal vouchers when needed.
- Track correction status to completion and document the resolution.
- Review order forms for programmatic and laboratory supplies, equipment, or invoice approval as assigned.
- Pull reports, compile existing budgets, and locate current scopes, budgets, and contract documentation.
- Lead reporting and grant closeout
- Own the reporting calendar, including due dates, internal deadlines, dependencies, and follow-up items.
- Compile performance metrics, such as quarterly reports, with program in the appropriate platform.
- Compile financial metrics, including spending, variances, and projections, with fiscal partners.
- Submit reports through the required portal or system and retain confirmation documentation and final versions.
- Manage funder follow-up questions, revisions, and corrective actions.
- Confirm final expenditures, invoices, contract closeouts, and outstanding obligations.
- Submit closeout packages by deadline and archive complete audit-ready closeout files, including lessons learned and carryover or no-cost extension needs.
- Lead stakeholder communications and fiscal governance
- Attend federal agency check-in meetings and provide status updates, risks, accomplishments, and upcoming milestones.
- Lead monthly expenditure report meetings covering spenddown, staffing costs, contract expenditures, projections, and risks.
- Prepare meeting materials, document action items and deadlines, and follow up to completion.
- Maintain strong communication with program leadership and CEDEP business functions, including contracts, fiscal, compliance, and procurement.
- Proactively escalate risks that could affect allowability, deadlines, spending pace, or program deliverables.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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 Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, track deadlines, follow up consistently, and maintain accurate records.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and complete assignments with minimal revision.
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.
iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
Skills
OtherIT Services and IT Consulting