Are you ready to join an organization where we focus on People First, have fun at work and make a difference in what we do?

Dairyland is proud of our People First culture centered around appreciation, celebrating wins and collaboration. We’ve worked hard to ensure alignment between our culture and our processes and systems, learning and development and rewards and recognition programs.

As a team, we work together to leverage the team’s diverse perspectives, ideas and experiences to deliver nothing less than the best. We are collaborative, transparent and committed to our People and their work experience, growth and professional development.

The Grants Specialist will collaborate with the Grant Program Manager to handle a diverse range of grant application, compliance, and administrative tasks with minimal oversight. This includes the planning and execution of activities encompassing schedule coordination, data gathering, benchmarking, deadline adherence, report creation, and financial and budgetary analysis to achieve the objectives of grants application and compliance management. This position will conduct regular evaluations of financial and project management components to uphold compliance with the granted funds. Additionally, this position is responsible for maintaining detailed documentation and ensuring that expenses adhere to federal guidelines. Implement and validate the efficacy of controls to ensure the grant's adherence to 2 CFR 200 and other pertinent grant regulations.

Hiring Salary Range: $66,000 - $82,000

Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

• Maintain consistent communication with the Grant Program Manager to ensure alignment in grant management procedures and objectives.

• Participate in grant management planning by proactively researching potential grants, conducting assessments, and analyzing grant opportunities. Handle the submission of reports to funding agencies, track the success of grant proposals, and monitor grant progress. Lead the information gathering for grant reports and maintain direct engagement with stakeholders to update the grant project pipeline.

• Manage the award budget allocated to projects, ensuring that all funds are used in accordance with the operational guidelines stipulated in the grant's terms and conditions.

• Support and assist the Grant Program Manager with all facets of managing the grants application, compliance and administration process.

• Organize meetings with stakeholders as required to advance the work of the department. Create presentation materials for those meetings and assist with utilization of presentation technology and SharePoint sites.

• Coordinating the completion and assembly of grant documents, including the award contract documents as needed and the collection of Executive signatures on legally binding documents.

• Attend internal grant proposal meetings and coordinate activities as needed. Gather input from grant project team members to compile proposals in a format that can be analyzed against the Funding Opportunity Announcements or Notice of Intent.

• Receive, organize and maintain all grant affiliated documents and subdivide specific documents for record retention, distribution to various Dairyland departments and team members for review. Monitor access to these documents to ensure appropriate confidentiality is maintained.

• Participate in Grant Management Monitoring and Control activities, including tracking grant metrics, monitoring proposal and active grant statuses, deadlines, and understanding grant requirements.

• Coordinate and monitor necessary documentation and producing time-sensitive reports as needed to demonstrate compliance with grant requirements.

• Monitor critical schedules and benchmarks of activities for grant application and compliance management functions and engage as necessary to ensure that those deadlines, often legally binding by award contracts, are satisfied.

• Build relationships with team members in all other departments within Dairyland and obtain assistance from those departments as necessary to complete grant proposal and scope documents, retrieve information needed for grant applications, or as otherwise needed to advance any other goals of the grants application and compliance processes.

• Engage in professional communications with external clients or stakeholders as necessary to assist in completing proposals, grant applications, post award activities, and grant close out.

• Collaborate closely with the Project Management Office (PMO), Financial, and Accounting departments to enhance, establish, or revise processes as required. Work alongside project managers and financial and accounting teams to ensure compliance with 2 CFR 200 award requirements. Communicate updates and address inquiries.

• Maintain a collaborative relationship to ensure funding is accurately tracked and reported in accordance with the Grant Program Manager's directives.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

Education & Experience :

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Legal Studies, or a similar field is required, along with at least three years of experience in grant acquisition, administration, and compliance or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities :

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to gather data and assist in preparing presentations for both internal and external audiences.

• Familiar with utility operations functions and ability to quickly become familiar with grant application, compliance and administration processes.

• Must be highly organized and be able to work with limited or no supervision in variable paced/variable pressure setting with hard deadlines.

• Possess financial analytical skills and general knowledge of accounting practices and monthly operational budget development, verification and reporting.

• Ability to reach out across all departments within Dairyland and interact with those departments in order to complete grants application, compliance and administration tasks.

• Project Management a plus.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand/sit; walk; use hands/fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Environmental Demands :

Works primarily indoors but will occasionally be in power plants and around substation and lines.

We are committed to providing our greatest asset, our People, with as many perks and benefits as possible. Some benefits of working with us include:

• Health & disability benefits (medical, dental, vision, short & long-term disability)

• Life insurance

• Generous 401(k) and Pension Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Robust Wellness Program

• New Flexible Work Program

• Tuition Reimbursement

• So much more!

Dairyland Power Cooperative is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

If you are an individual with disabilities who needs accommodation or you are having difficulty using our website to apply for employment, contact our HR Department at 608-788-4000.

With headquarters in La Crosse, Wis., Dairyland is a generation and transmission cooperative that provides wholesale energy for 24 electric distribution cooperatives and 17 municipal utilities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

At Dairyland, we know that happy employees are the backbone of any good organization. By offering an excellent compensation and benefits package, opportunities for career growth and a supportive environment, Dairyland helps ensure a quality business and premier workplace.

Dairyland Power Cooperative is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.