APPROXIMATE ANNUAL SALARY -
$49,694.40 to
$74,082.24
PAY GRADE: 37
For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.
Grants & Projects Analysts develop and implement and/or assess, monitor, control and review grant-in-aid projects/programs administered by State agencies and provide assistance to recipients in evaluating program effectiveness.
Incumbents, in addition to overseeing and administering various complex grants, supervise, train and evaluate the performance of subordinate professional staff, and serve as a resource to lower level analysts.
This position will provide management of an active grant unit and may manage programs funded from additional sources outside the State of Nevada General Funds, such as legal settlements and gifts. The position supervises a GPA I and answers to the Management Analyst IV of the agency's Grants Unit.
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in public or business administration, accounting, finance or related field and three years of professional grants experience which included writing grant applications to secure program funding; determining grant/subgrant
program eligibility; researching, developing and implementing long-range grant program plans; managing fiscal aspects of grants/subgrants; and monitoring and enforcing grant/subgrant recipient compliance; OR an
equivalent combination of education and experience; OR one year of experience as a Grants & Projects Analyst II in Nevada State service.
Special Notes
Travel may be required up to 25% of the time.
Special Requirements
A State of Nevada/FBI background check will be required of the selected applicant.
Additional Position Criteria
This position requires experience with federal grants from the US Department of Justice.
This position requires experience with the administration, implementation and project experience of a statewide grant program.
The Examination
If there are five or fewer qualified applicants, the exam will consist of an application evaluation. (This statement does not apply for Until Recruitment Needs are Satisfied (URS) announcements).
GRANTS & PROJECTS ANALYST III (07.753) Training and Experience Exam
The exam will consist of a rating of training and experience weighted 100%. It is essential that applications include extensively detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. Your score will be based on the information provided in your application and your responses to the questions asked below. If there are several parts to a question, answer each part separately. Along with each answer, identify the position(s) and/or training (as described in your application) where you gained the background asked for in the question. Absence of experience/training asked for in a question is not necessarily disqualifying. Failure to answer the questions will result in a score based solely on the application.
Qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview.
1) Describe your experience, including number of years, in the compliance, monitoring and evaluation of grants relating to: a) Public Assistance; b) Hazard Mitigation and c) Individual Assistance.
2) Describe your experience, including number of years, in analyzing and interpreting complex regulations and statutes.
3) Describe your experience, including number of years, in compliance, monitoring, and evaluation of plans, policies and regulations in public and non-profit organizations.
4) Describe your experience, including number of years, supervising professional staff.
5) Describe your experience, including number of years, in writing procedures, grant manuals, letters, instructions, and reports.
6) Describe your experience, including number of years, communicating with the public, elected officials, and other professionals, including public presentations and technical assistance.
7) Describe your experience, including number of years, with statistics and other data analysis.
