Senior Manager, Grants Risk Assessment and Compliance

  • Full-time

Company Description

 NASTAD is a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health and leveraging community partnerships. 

Our work advances NASTAD’s four strategic priorities: 1) Strengthen public health systems for HIV and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care; 2) Advance health and racial equity, and stigma elimination, focusing on disparately impacted communities; 3) Implement integrated approaches to address HIV, hepatitis, STIs, harm reduction, and the social determinants of health; 4) Strengthen organizational excellence within NASTAD and its member jurisdictions.

NASTAD serves as the Systems Coordination Provider (SCP) for the 47 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Parts A and B jurisdictions funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA-20-078), as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) initiative. As part of this work, NASTAD develops tools and resources to support health departments in EHE Phase I jurisdictions to improve coordination across health systems and collaboration with key stakeholder groups.

NASTAD Background

Our Mission & Vision

NASTAD is a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health and leveraging community partnerships. Our vision is a world committed to ending HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics. We want to center on racial justice, anti-racism, and anti-white supremacist principles as we think about, approach, and conduct our work.

Job Description

Purpose and Description

The Senior Manager, Grants Risk Assessment and Compliance is responsible for the effective compliance oversight of subrecipient’s compliance with applicable regulations such as 2 CFR 200, 45 CFR Part 75, and the terms and conditions of the award. The position is also responsible for collaborating with Grants and Compliance staff in performing a variety of pre-award assessments and post-award monitoring activities. The position works closely with the Associate Director and the Manager of the Grants and Compliance team, on promoting compliance goals and objectives and enhancing policies, procedures, controls, training, testing, and related practices.

Essential Functions

  • Assess subrecipient risk of non-compliance for federal and private subawards. Develop tools and materials to ensure the consistent and optimal execution of pre-award assessments.
  • Monitor subrecipients of federal awards to ensure compliance and allowability of costs. Identify special conditions and work with program staff on implementing affirmative steps to address instances of non-compliance.
  • Collaborate with Grants & Compliance, Finance and Program staff in reviewing subrecipient billing for accuracy and completeness.
  • Conduct subrecipient audits and desk reviews, as needed. This may require some travel for site visits. Develop sub-recipient tools and reports for each audit conducted ensuring that sub-recipients take all appropriate and timely corrective action required. Identify potential areas of non-compliance, control weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement for sub-recipients and recommend solutions.
  • Collaborate with program staff on resolving different issues applying appropriate analysis and monitoring, using sound judgment to make strategic recommendations.
  • Work with the Associate Director, Grants and Compliance on identifying areas of improvements to implement processes and procedures and strengthen internal controls to effectively manage subawards and reduce risk of non-compliance.
  • Lead in developing trainings for subrecipients that would assist them in overall compliance with Federal funding and assist with regulatory compliance trainings as needed
  • Perform other activities and duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

  • Thorough knowledge of requirements of 2 CFR 200.
  • Experience with implementing policies and procedures for managing grants and subawards.
  • Ability to work independently on multiple priorities and exercise independent judgment.
  • Superior problem-solving skills.
  • Superior ability to manage multiple projects, work under pressure, and prioritize changing and often conflicting deliverables and objectives.
  • Superior collaboration and relationship building skills and professionalism in interpersonal relations.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts in ways that are understood and actionable by cross-functional teams.
  • Proficient use of Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, etc.)

Experience/Education 

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrate the candidate’s ability to perform the position’s duties.
  • 8-10 years’ experience with grants management, conducting pre-award assessments and subrecipient monitoring according to 2 CFR 200.  Experience with risk/pre-award assessment procedures from public and non-public sources.
  • Proficiency in Salesforce preferred.

Competencies 

  • Leadership - Integrates in their work a strategic vison and critical analysis that optimizes success for projects, and organizational priorities as applicable.
  • Communications - Strategically communicates internally and externally in a clear, concise, respectful, and trauma-informed manner; simplifies complicated concepts and communicates them clearly regardless of the situation or audience.
  • Teamwork - Proactively contributes toward the completion of team tasks and team building. Champions an anti-racist, collaborative, and supportive organizational team culture.
  • Reliability and Adaptability - Takes ownership of own objectives and performance. Independently completes tasks in a timely and consistent manner. Adapts to, and integrates in own tasks, changes in work environment, priorities, and organizational needs.
  • Problem Solving and Analytical Thinking - Takes a solutions-focused approach to problem solving: identifies a problem, finds the root cause, and structures logical solutions. Able to solve problems by analyzing situations and applying critical thinking to resolve them.

Additional Information

Environment and Scheduling

·    Salary range – $79,050 - $83,700 and commensurate with experience

·       Full-time, 40 hours/week role.

·       Remote work is possible.

·       Interest in working with a national HIV and hepatitis public health organization.

·       Interest in working within a diverse environment.

·       Commitment to Anti-Racism values.

We encourage people of diverse ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, disabilities, religions, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, work, and life experiences to apply. We recognize that to accelerate the end of the HIV and hepatitis epidemics, our workforce must be representative of groups that have been disproportionately impacted.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.