Senior ORR Program Compliance and Monitoring Expert

Job Description

Job Description

The Grants Monitoring/Compliance Lead/Technical Expert III (TE III) serves as the subject matter expert and team lead for an assigned group of grantees. The role provides strategic oversight of federal grants administration, monitoring, compliance reviews, corrective action management, technical assistance (TA), and recipient performance assessment to strengthen accountability, compliance, and program effectiveness.

The TE III supervises, coaches, and guides assigned staff; ensures the delivery of high-quality TA and project deliverables; and communicates with JBS clients in accordance with established project guidelines.

Fundamental Requirement: This role requires extensive experience in federal grants management, compliance monitoring, program oversight, and continuous quality improvement, particularly within human services, public health, refugee, or child welfare programs. The TE III must be committed to consumer-centered, strengths-based TA that supports each grantee's continuous improvement journey.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Oversees federal grant administration activities, including pre-award and post-award oversight, recipient performance reviews, financial analysis, monitoring activities, corrective action management, and grant closeout support.

• Leads the design and continuous improvement of monitoring and compliance review methodologies, assessment tools, protocols, interview guides, and risk-based oversight strategies.

• Directs monitoring activities, including onsite and virtual reviews, stakeholder interviews, document reviews, compliance assessments, and quality assurance efforts.

• Analyzes programmatic, operational, financial, and performance data to identify compliance risks, performance trends, best practices, and technical assistance needs.

• Serves as the primary subject matter expert for assigned recipients, providing strategic guidance to federal staff, project leadership, and stakeholders.

• Develops technical assistance resources, guidance documents, training materials, and corrective action recommendations based on monitoring findings, recipient needs, and federal priorities.

• Ensures technical assistance activities, documentation, and deliverables meet contractual requirements, project objectives, timelines, and quality standards.

• Manages client relationships and maintains ongoing communication regarding compliance issues, emerging trends, policy changes, evidence-based practices, and recommended TA approaches.

• Supervises, coaches, and develops assigned staff, fostering professional growth, effective performance, and high-quality service delivery.

• Leads the preparation and quality review of written deliverables, including monitoring and site visit reports, meeting summaries, literature reviews, technical documents, presentations, and other project products.

• Collaborates with project leadership and other technical experts to identify emerging issues, share lessons learned, improve TA delivery, and develop long-term strategies to strengthen recipient outcomes.

• Develops and monitors project budgets, consultant expenses, and other expenditures to ensure effective use of resources and compliance with contractual requirements.

• Contributes to thought leadership and business development activities, including work groups, advisory boards, opportunity research and qualification, and proposal development.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Master’s degree in relevant field

Experience:

• At least 20 years of relevant work experience

• At least 4 years of direct program and contract management experience

• A minimum of 3 years’ supervisory experience

• At least 3 years of contract or grant writing experience

• Demonstrated subject matter expertise through publications, presentations, awards, or comparable accomplishments in a relevant public health or human services area

Knowledge:

• Content knowledge of current and emerging issues for assigned grant program areas

• Strengths-based approach to delivering TA and to working with others

• Knowledge of and experience with federal government contracting and grants management

Competencies:

• Interacts well with others in a positive, courteous, and professional manner

• Works effectively as part of a team and independently with limited supervision; follows established channels to address personnel or management concerns

• Honors, respects, and celebrates cultural differences

• Clear, effective, and professional written and oral communication skills

• Attention to detail

Location: Remote with the consideration that if a candidate lives within a 50-mile radius of our North Bethesda or San Mateo offices, employment will be considered hybrid

Security Clearance: May vary based upon assignment

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk or computer workstation.

• Regularly uses a computer, keyboard, and mouse.

• Normal or corrected vision to read documents, view computer screens, and perform tasks that require visual accuracy.

• Ability to hear and understand spoken information in person and over the phone.

• Minimal lifting and carrying may be required, typically light office supplies or documents.

• Ability to move within the office environment to access equipment, files, and interact with colleagues.

• Ability to handle occasional stress related to deadlines, workloads, or challenging tasks.

PREFERRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience: Doctorate’s Degree

OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED:

These requirements are not the exclusive standards for this position and will not be the sole basis for any subsequent employee evaluations. This role will follow any other instructions and perform any other related duties as may be required by the supervisor.

This position is subject to availability of funds and to any and all restrictions contained in the contract or contracts that provide funding for this position.

This position is subject to availability of funds and to any and all restrictions contained in the contract or contracts that provide funding for this position.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:

If you meet the minimum requirements for this position, please click on the "Apply" link posted below and complete the application. Please include cover letter, resume, and at least (3) professional references.

Our company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Applicants can learn more about the company's status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal "EEO" poster at EEOPost.pdf. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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