[Hiring] Senior Associate - Grants Management Analyst @Blake Willson Group

Role 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $90,000 to $120,000 in the United States.
• Comprehensive Total Rewards package, including major medical benefits such as dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k)-contribution plan.
• Holiday and personal time off.
• Professional development training & certification benefits.
• Health & wellness subsidies.
• Paid time off for community service.