Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree. Four years of professional experience to include assisting in developing, monitoring, or reviewing budgets or performing related fiscal or management analyses is required. A Masters degree may substitute for one year of the required experience.
Recruitment Notes
This position functions in a professional administrative capacity, leading and coordinating disaster recovery initiatives aimed at maximizing the County's reimbursement opportunities through federal and state funding sources.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Managing a portfolio of disaster grant-funded projects and overseeing complex programmatic, reporting, and compliance activities from initial project formulation through closeout, ensuring adherence to approved scope, eligible costs, and grantor deadlines.
- Assisting County departments with the preparation, validation and submission cost claims associated with their emergency response activities, and providing guidance on policies and cost recovery eligibility.
- Providing actionable recommendations for administering grant-funded projects with varying objectives, eligibility criteria, and competing compliance timelines.
- Collaborating extensively with internal and external stakeholders, and preparing clear, comprehensive project updates, analyses, and recommendations for senior management.
- Overseeing the tracking of obligations and cost reimbursements under FEMA Public Assistance, and performing financial reconciliations to ensure disaster related expenses are properly accounted for and reimbursed.
- Planning, reviewing, and approving work related to the monitoring of project reimbursements and preparing journal entries, while ensuring the timely completion of fiscal year‑end activities.
- Leading grant-related coordination with County departments and the Clerk of the Courts and Comptroller to ensure accurate recording of reimbursed disaster expenses, applicable local match, and balanced grant funds.
- Providing guidance to team members, and leading Division's group assignments and initiatives.
- Managing financial documentation to support audit responses and assists with matters related to disaster recovery funding appeals or arbitration