GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT III - 60055460

Requisition No: 883623 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT III - 60055460

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 60055460 

Salary: Anticipated annual starting salary of $65,000 - $75,000 

Posting Closing Date: 09/28/2026 

Total Compensation Estimator 

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT III
POSITION NUMBER 60055460

Career Service
Open Competitive
Anticipated Salary $65,000 - $75,000
and/or in accordance with the Florida Department of Children and Families salary policy.

THIS IS NOT A TELEWORK POSITION

About Us: The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

The Office of Revenue Management is under the Assistant Secretary for Administration located at DCF Headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida. The Office of Revenue Management is responsible for the funding analysis of DCF's Approved Operating and Budget plan, maintaining official revenue cash sheets and schedules, verification of budget amendment funding impacts, and the funding and assessment of policy impacting funding issues related to the Department's Legislative Budget Requests, including the application of Federal and State cost allocation principles coupled with coordination and communication of Federal Grant and Federal contract requirements with the various program offices.

What you will do: This is a professional position within DCF, Revenue Management’s Grant Finance Team. The Grants Finance Analyst is responsible for performing detailed financial and grant-related analyses to support compliant administration of federal and state grant funding. The position prepares financial and federal grant reports, performs reconciliations to ensure accurate federal draws, and supports the Department’s cost allocation methodologies. The analyst works closely with program areas, the Budget Office, and Revenue Management to ensure financial data integrity, accurate reporting of program activities, and compliance with applicable federal and state requirements, including OMB Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200).

The incumbent must work collaboratively with other program areas and DCF staff. The incumbent must be able learn and work independently with available resources and will be responsible for independent work products to support administrative, fiscal, and operational aspects of several grants.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Federal Grant Analysis

• Prepare comprehensive financial and grant analysis reports to support management decision-making, budget monitoring, and compliance oversight.
• Analyze and interpret expenditure trends, funding utilization, and program cost drivers to identify variances, risks, or data inconsistencies.
• Provide analytical support related to grant performance, allowability of costs, and alignment between program activities and approved budgets.

Federal Award Maintenance

• Establish, maintain, and update grant award information in appropriate financial reporting systems to support effective tracking, monitoring, and oversight of federal and state awards.
• Review award notices and grant agreements for award details, including funding levels, periods of performance, cost categories, and financial reporting requirements.
• Share new and/or amended awards with other Department stakeholders to ensure departmental and statewide financial systems are updated to accurately reflect approved awards and related changes.

Federal Financial Reporting

• Prepare and submit federal financial reports (e.g., CB-496 — Title IV-E Programs Quarterly Financial Report, SF-425, or equivalent) in accordance with grant award terms, federal regulations, and reporting deadlines.
• Ensure reported expenditures and obligations reconcile to the Department’s accounting system and approved budgets.
• Support audit readiness by maintaining documentation supporting reported figures and methodologies.

Cost Pool Maintenance and Program Statistics

• Enter and maintain program activity statistics in cost allocation modules used for indirect and direct cost distribution.
• Track and report changes to cost allocation methodologies and program activities as identified by program areas and approved by the Budget Office.
• Add new program activities to cost allocation systems based on program operational needs and budget authorization, ensuring accurate classification and allocation.

Financial Analysis and Other Financial Reporting

• Prepare detailed transaction-level reconciliations to ensure accuracy between the accounting system, cost allocation systems, and federal reporting.
• Identify discrepancies and prepare manual adjustments, corrections, or reclassifications in accordance with established policies and internal controls.
• Ensure federal drawdowns accurately reflect allowable, allocable, and properly documented expenditures.
• Perform period-of-performance reviews to ensure transaction detail reported by program and budget office’s falls within the approved grant period of performance, based on invoice documentation and expenditure descriptions recorded in FLAIR.
• Validate that expenditures included in reconciliations, federal draws, and financial reports are associated with the correct grant period, funding source, and budget authority.
• Identify and communicate period-of-performance discrepancies or data inconsistencies to program and budget offices for clarification or correction, in accordance with established financial procedures.
• Support internal control processes by maintaining documentation of period-of-performance reviews and reconciliation adjustments made in the cost allocation system to ensure accuracy, transparency, and audit readiness.

Communication and Engagement

• Coordinate with program staff to obtain, validate, and clarify activity data, expenditure information, and operational changes affecting cost allocation.
• Collaborate with the Budget Office to ensure alignment between budgeted activities and actual program operations.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to program and fiscal staff regarding reporting requirements, cost allocation principles, and financial documentation.

Minimum Requirements : Responses to qualifying questions concerning education, experience, knowledge, skills and/or abilities for this position must be verifiable by documentation provided (candidate profile AND resume (if one is attached) through the electronic application process. Putting “see resume” does not substitute for completing all sections of the Candidate Profile. Candidates with incomplete candidate profiles may not receive employment consideration.

Candidate must be p roficient using Microsoft Excel and Word.

Candidates must possess the a bility to use Microsoft Office Excel and Word while presenting (in person and on-line) financial information to DCF staff, leadership, and mutual stakeholders.

Education and/or Years of Experience :

• A minimum of four years of professional experience in grants administration, financial management, budgeting, accounting, auditing, compliance, program administration, or business operations.
• Qualifying experience must include analyzing and interpreting financial or programmatic information within the context of business operations; researching and reconciling discrepancies; assessing the effect of financial or operational activity; and using analytical results to support reporting, compliance, funding, budgeting, or management decisions.
• Postsecondary education may substitute on a year-for-year basis for up to two years of the required experience. A bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required. The degree may be in finance, accounting, business, public administration, criminology, social work, sociology, human services, or another similar field that develops analytical, research, assessment, quantitative-reasoning, or problem-solving skills.
• At least two years of the required experience must be professional experience involving financial, grant, program, or business operations. Experience limited to information technology, software development, database administration, data engineering, dashboard development, or technical data reporting does not satisfy this requirement.

All gaps in employment history must be addressed – you will need to account for and explain any gaps in employment including unemployment. You can either list these in your application under Period of Employment or attach a word/PDF document listing your gap(s).

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

• Knowledge of methods of data collection and analysis.
• Knowledge of basic management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of state budgeting processes, including the preparation and processing of non-operating budget amendments in accordance with applicable fiscal procedures.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically proficient in Excel and Word.
• Skilled at presenting information and data to key stakeholders in-person and online.
• Skilled in maintaining accurate financial records and reconciling data between accounting and grant management.
• Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document workflow and other activities relating to the improvement of management practices.
• Ability to analyze and interpret transaction-level financial data to ensure accurate classification, period-of-performance alignment, and reporting consistency across financial systems.
• Ability to organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents, and other written materials.
• Ability to conduct fact-finding research.
• Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers, including but not limited to program and budget staff, to clarify financial data, resolve discrepancies, and support timely reporting.
• Ability to organize and conduct leadership level meetings on the financial, budget, and/or grant activities effected by programmatic expenditures and funding utilization.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Where You Will Work : Tallahassee- Florida’s Capital City combines old world charm with a modern pace of life. As a mid-sized city in the heart of Florida’s Big Bend, Tallahassee is not only home to rolling hills, oak trees, and canopied roads, but also state government and two major state universities. The city boasts proximity to nearby beaches and popular tourist destinations. With no state income tax and a reasonable cost of living, Tallahassee, Florida is a great place to work regardless of where you find yourself on the career ladder. This position reports to DCF Headquarters located at The Centre of Tallahassee.

The primary working hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday -Friday, for a total of 40 hours per week in the office. This is not a work from home position.

This is a tobacco free environment.

About Department of Children and Families :

Mission: The mission of the Department of Children and Families is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Vision: We are a highly skilled workforce committed to empowering people with complex and varied needs to achieve the best outcomes for themselves and their families. In collaboration with community stakeholders, we will deliver world class and continuously improving service focused on providing the people we serve with the level and quality that we would demand and expect for our own families.

Values: A workforce that operates with integrity maintains loyalty to a code of ethics that requires the courage to take responsibility for providing the highest quality of service to the vulnerable. We are a solutions-focused learning organization built on a foundation of transparency in action and accountability of results. Both within the organization and among our stakeholders, we thrive in a culture of respect for diversity of opinion that is nurtured through open communication. High performing and committed, we are unified in our goal of excellence in achieving quality outcomes for those we serve.

Benefits of Working for the State of Florida : Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:

• No state income tax for residents of Florida;
• Annual and Sick Leave benefits;
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options;
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click );

• Flexible Spending Accounts;
• Tuition waivers;
• And more!

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Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center View phone number on us.fitly.work). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here . All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.