CHS Grants Compliance Manager

Collier County strives to be an employer of choice, and many of our employees build long-term careers with us. The salary listed in the job description reflects the full pay range for this position, from entry level through advanced career stages.

NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.

Manages grant compliance and/or grant programs for an assigned area; including budgeting, purchasing, coordinating the annual single audit response for Department Grants, support all Divisions in the administration of federal, state, and local grant programs while ensuring internal and external compliance with policies and mandates. Develops and maintains compliant policies and procedures, develops training on compliance matters, and supervises staff. Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals. Provides direction, leadership, training and guidance to Division staff and management to ensure the achievement of single audit goals, objectives, and priorities. Organizes, prioritizes, and assigns daily work activities; monitors status of work in progress and reviews completed work; confers with assigned staff, assists with complex situations/issues; and provides technical expertise. Develops, refines and works with framework for a coordinated County-wide approach to manage federal and state funding in an effective and compliant manner; identifies trends and drivers; and conducts compliance review meetings that outline and explain grant regulations, changes and audit risks and concerns. Monitor, manage and mitigate compliance risk throughout fiscal year including development and implementation of corrective actions plans to remedy or prevent adverse audit outcomes. Develops and implements related programs; updates policies, procedures, goals and objectives which establish contract compliance; establishes methods for the provision of all services; monitors programmatic and fiscal achievement of established goals. Plans in cooperation with partner agencies and works with other Division sections on the development of grant applications. Reviews all monitoring correspondence and coordinates monitoring schedule with monitoring unit; develops and administers the fund operational budgets; forecasts the funds needed for staffing, programs, equipment, and special projects. Monitors and approves expenditures. Interacts with grantor officials on all programmatic matters. Communicates with the County's Budget and Finance Divisions on various budget and expenditure matters and issues; communicates regularly with the Office of Management and Budget Grant Management section, the County Attorney Office, and Procurement Services. Oversees and reviews the preparation and submission of required reports such as performance and progress reports on all grants overseen including but not limited to Section 3 Reports, Environmental Reports, Minority Business Enterprise Reports, Labor, and annual and quarterly progress report (QPR), to HUD and all other grantor agencies. Provides effective and efficient technical assistance, support and guidance to subrecipients regarding grant administration, operations and implementation. Ensures that the necessary information to comply with various regulations is disbursed. Prioritizes actions and ensures that projects move forward to comply with HUD and other grantor timelines. Prepares compliant subrecipient and grantor agreements and ensures proper execution of agreements between the Board of County Commissioners and the subrecipient and grantor agencies. Develops, maintains and monitors operating procedures for all grant programs and revises as necessary. Bachelor's degree required. Five (5) years of related experience. Candidates without a degree should possess four (4) additional years of related experience. Fingerprinting required. Salary offers above the minimum pay grade may be considered based on qualifications. Essential Employees may be required to work during an undeclared or declared emergency. The County's Administrative Office will determine who will be required to work on an incident-by-incident basis. This job posting is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position.