Project Director, Grants Management (REMOTE Role)

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. Diversity & Inclusion, is simply who we are and what we do.

ICF seeks a motivated and experienced Project Director to manage a large government contract that provides federal grants financial management training and technical assistance (TTA) services. In this role you will support U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) grantees to build financial management capacity and infrastructure to improve financial management of federal awards to support victim services, criminal justice, juvenile justice, and justice research programs.

* This position is REMOTE, candidate must live in the DMV area. This position requires obtaining a Public Trust Clearance PRIOR to start date.

What You Will Do

• Lead national training and technical assistance project focused on building grants financial management capacity for OJP grantees.
• Building and maintaining a trusted advisor relationship with federal clients, shaping a team culture of excellence, providing prompt, comprehensive responses to all client needs and requests, and participating in business development efforts. 
• Provide visionary, strategic, and practical leadership and direction for delivery of forward leaning, results driven TTA that is culturally humble and reflects inclusive principles. 
• Ensure project quality including staff performance, reports, and deliverables, supervise and coach all team members, and monitor staff utilization and conduct annual performance reviews.
• Coordinate culturally competent TTA needs assessments, creation of customized plans based on those needs, and the delivery of prompt, responsive, and high quality, effective TTA products, and services that are responsive to those needs.  
• Perform other duties assigned, consistent with the specifications for this position.

Your minimum qualifications

• Ability to Obtain Public Trust Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, public policy or administration, victim advocacy, criminal justice, business administration, or a closely related field
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in managing projects in the criminal justice/victim services field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience managing a project that spans a nation-wide effort
• Knowledge of social science research and evidence-based programs and practices.
• Experience delivering either training or technical assistance on a national level.
• Knowledge of the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and of OJP’s program offices and bureaus.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities, provide a high attention to detail, and respond to challenges with a high degree of adaptability with comfort in establishing new directions and managing and adapting to change.
• Advanced communication, writing, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work successfully in teams and with people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to foster partnership with multiple internal and external partners to help plan work, develop capacity, and ensure timely and effective project delivery.
• US citizenship required by federal government contract
• This position requires a Public Trust security clearance. Applicants will be subject to government security investigation to obtain clearance prior to the start date.

Additional Skills/Qualifications we would like you to have

• PMP certification from the Project Management Institute.
• Advanced Degree (MA, MS) in accounting, public policy or administration, victim advocacy, criminal justice, business administration, or a closely related field.
• Experience with federal consulting and business processes.  
• Experience working with states, territories, and tribes providing national training and technical assistance.
• Experience leading a geographically dispersed team and providing oversight for multi-faceted TTA work.
• Experience managing a multi-million-dollar project budget and providing responsible stewardship for all project resources including invoicing and routine program and fiscal reporting.

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills with the ability to engage audiences and communicate effectively in a virtual space.

• Adaptable team player with the ability to frequently change priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated an outstanding level of professionalism in providing client support, including the ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy.
• Ability to work collaboratively across TTA providers, the government client, subject matter experts, project partners, vendors and internal staff.
• Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information.
• Problem solving skills with ability to analyze situations, identify existing or potential problems and recommend solutions.
• High quality management skills with attention to detail.
• Effective time-management skills with emphasis on quality and timely completion of tasks.

Working at ICF

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