Grants Manager

At APTIM, we come to work each day knowing that we are making an impact on the world. Our work spans from safeguarding and maintaining critical infrastructure to helping communities recover from natural disasters, from empowering our armed forces and first responders to reducing carbon and energy use, and from making cities more resilient against the threats of climate change to restoring contaminated ecological systems.

We are hiring a Grants Manager, that will develop and implement complex grant strategies to secure funding for disaster recovery projects. This includes drafting proposals and grant applications, managing timelines, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Coordinate High-Level Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with federal, state, and local agencies, as well as internal cross-functional teams, to gather necessary information, align objectives, and enhance the grant application process.

What You Can Expect From APTIM

• Work that is worthy of your time and talent
• Respect and flexibility to live a full life at work and at home.
• Dogged determination to deliver for our clients and communities.
• A voice in making our company better.
• Investment into your personal and professional development
  
  

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Direct the preparation, review, and submission of detailed grant applications.
• Ensure that proposals are well-organized, persuasive, and compliant with grant requirements.
• Manage Grant Compliance and Reporting:
• Monitor the progress of grant-funded projects, ensuring compliance with funding conditions, and prepare accurate and timely reports for stakeholders.
• Oversee data management activities and manage the allocation of resources to support recovery efforts for clients.
• Ensure that data is systematically collected, analyzed, and used to inform recovery strategies.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Emergency Management, Public Administration, or a related field.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience in disaster recovery, emergency management, or a related field, with a focus on grant writing and management
• Strong organizational capabilities,
• Solid understanding of grants management, grant writing, and document structuring.
• Demonstrated experience with State CDBG, BRIC, CDBG-DR, SMART, and PROTECT grants.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of proposal experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, high-volume proposal environment is preferred.
• Coordinates small to medium proposal efforts with supervision.
• Review specifications and proposal requirements; to develop compliance matrices, schedule, budget; provides support of proposal kickoff meetings; to compile existing source materials; to coordinate and/or write resumes, project descriptions, and original material where needed; to conduct interviews with technical staff to supplement qualifications; and to comply with process management procedures.
• Provide editing which includes checking for spelling, subject-verb agreement, sentence fragments, and clarity of prose; checking the table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, and list of appendices against the actual text, page numbers, and figure/table/appendix titles; checking references and cross-references, numeric and lettered sequences, and acronyms, and abbreviations. Provides formatting support as needed; coordinates final production.
• Coordinate subcontractors, serving as the primary source for proposal team information (e.g., RFP documents, schedule, team contact information, latest proposal drafts), managing files (including version control), research corporate databases for examples of qualifications, collects data for personnel and corporate qualifications, manages reproduction, and supports the Proposal Manager and sales team.