Senior Associate - Grants Management Analyst

Job Location: 

This role is 100% remote.

Clearance:

Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and have the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance.

Job Description:

Blake Willson Group is seeking a Grants Management Analyst to support complex federal grants management and program operations. The successful candidate will bring hands-on experience supporting federal grant programs, coordinating complex workgroups and workstreams, and managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities in a consulting environment. In this position, you will also:

• Manage and support complex federal grants management activities.
• Coordinate multiple workgroups and cross-functional workstreams, ensuring activities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables remain on track.
• Support program planning, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement activities.
• Collaborate with federal program staff, internal teams, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders.
• Use grants management systems and related tools to track applications, awards, reporting, data, and program activities.
• Apply knowledge of federal grants processes and requirements to identify issues, develop solutions, and support program objectives.
• Develop and maintain work plans, schedules, status reports, meeting materials, documentation, and other program deliverables.
• Facilitate meetings and workgroups, document decisions and action items, and follow through on commitments.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and potential roadblocks and proactively communicate them to project leadership.
• Manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and deliverables in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Contribute to a collaborative, team-oriented consulting environment and support additional project activities as needed.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience supporting federal grants management or grant programs, including experience working with grants management systems.
• 2+ years of experience coordinating projects, workgroups, or program workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, with the ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• 2+ years of experience in a consulting, federal agency, government program, or similar environment, with strong organizational, analytical, communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting federal grants management, program operations, or consulting engagements, preferably within agricultural, research, higher education, or veterinary medicine programs.
• Experience working with federal grants management system and/or supporting data collection workstreams.
• Experience coordinating multiple interconnected workstreams and workgroups within large or complex federal programs, including stakeholder engagement and facilitation.
• Experience developing processes, SOPs, dashboards, reports, or other tools to improve grants and program management operations.

At Blake Willson Group, we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation practices. For this position, we offer a competitive salary range of $90,000 to $120,000 in the United States. Your individual salary within this range will be determined by various factors, including but not limited to your education, experience, skills, and geographic location. We also provide a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which includes major medical benefits such as dental and vision coverage, a 401(k)-contribution plan, holiday and personal time off, professional development training & certification benefits, health & wellness subsidies, paid time off for community service, and more. We value your contributions and are committed to recognizing and rewarding your performance and the value you bring to our business.