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Contracts Grant Reviewer 1-4

Salary

Depends on Qualifications

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

419-214269-JAS

Department

DPS-Office of State Police

Opening Date

10/28/2025

Closing Date

11/4/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

The Louisiana State Police has a Contracts / Grants Reviewer 1-4 vacancy within the Operational Development Grants Unit. The position is responsible for developing, overseeing, and administering federal and state grants for the Department. These duties include ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations, maintaining proper documentation, and coordinating with funding agencies to support key law enforcement initiatives.

Selected Core Competencies:

Communicating Effectively:The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.

Managing Budgets:The ability to be a good steward of state resources by effectively managing allocated funds.

Solving Problems: The ability to discover solutions to problems.

Selected Preferred Competencies:

Accepting Direction:The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.

Learning Actively:The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals.

Managing Projects:The ability to initiate, plan, execute, manage, and close out all project goals within the established timeline.

Working with Financial Information:The ability to use financial data to guide, drive, and convey the financial standing and/or outlook of an organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Three years of experience in contracts or grants management, procurement, financial management, or accounting; OR

Six years of full-time work experience in any field; OR

A bachelor’s degree.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards the six years of full-time work experience in any field. The maximum substitution allowed is 120 semester hours which substitutes for a maximum of four years of experience in any field.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=160200) .

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

+ Maintains records, prepares reports and/or correspondence relative to contracts and/or grants.

+ Performs original entries, reconciliations, and all adjustments to grants management accounting records.

+ Reviews reports and records to ensure costs claimed are allowable, and to ensure contract/grant is on schedule and terms are being met.

+ Works with administrators, officials, and other personnel to solve contract problems.

+ Maintains records, prepares reports and/or correspondence relative to contracts and/or grants.

+ Provides assistance to program personnel in preparation of grants proposals or contracts agreements.

+ Assists in the preparation of RFPs (Requests for Proposals).

+ Tracks the approval process of contracts/grants ensuring all necessary approvals are received.

+ Researches grant awards and state appropriation budgets to make sure that funds are available.

+ Obtains and reviews performance evaluations after completion of a project to comply with state law within established time limits.

+ Performs original entries, reconciliations, and all adjustments to grants management accounting record

+ Prepares, develops, and monitors routine and less complex contracts and/or grants agreements, applications, budgets, amendments and sub-grant agreements in accordance with statutory and regulatory requirements and departmental policies and procedures.

Position-Specific Details:

This vacancy is located in the Department of Public Safety —Louisiana Highway Safety Commission in Baton Rouge, LA.

Appointment Type: T his posting may be used to fill a probational or job appointment.

Career Progression:T his position may be filled as a Contracts/Grants Reviewer 1, 2, 3, or 4 , depending on qualifications.

Compensation: Salary can range anywhere from $15.76 to $27.01 an hour.

How to apply:

No Civil Service test scoreis required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumeswill notbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

If you are contacted for an interview, please let us know at that time if you have a disability and need a special accommodation.

All candidates for hire must undergo drug screening and additional background check(s).

The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services, is a State as a Model Employer (SAME) agency that supports improved employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. For more information on employment-related resources available for those with disabilities, refer to the Louisiana Employment Resource Guide.

This agency participates in the e-Verify system for verification of citizenship and employment authorization.

For more information, please contact:

Department of Public Safety

Attn: Human Resources/Joel Sunsin

Human Resources Analyst A

Baton Rouge, LA 70896

Fax: 225-925-3970

[email protected]

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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To ensure compliance with DPS-PSS Policy 01-02.01 Nepotism, no individual may be hired, promoted, demoted or transferred within DPS, if the individual is related to another employee who is, or would be, within their line of supervision. Relative is defined as: child, step-child, sibling, spouse, parent, step-parent, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandchild, grandparent, and any "in law" relationship. Are you related to anyone employed with the Department of Public Safety, Public Safety Services?

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+ No

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If you answered "yes" to the above question, please list the name of your relative and relationship. If you answered "no" to the above question, enter N/A.

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Did you list ALL of your job experience and education on your application? If not, please add before submitting.

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+ No

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LA: Rate your ability to learn actively based on our definition: The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable learning actively

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to learn actively

+ 3= I can learn actively

+ 4= I can learn actively and help others improve their ability to learn actively

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LA: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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MB: Rate your ability to manage budgets based on our definition: The ability to be a good steward of state resources by effectively managing allocated funds.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable managing budgets

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to manage budgets

+ 3= I can manage budgets

+ 4= I can manage budgets and help others improve their ability to manage budgets

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MB: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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MPr: Rate your ability to manage projects based on our definition: The ability to initiate, plan, execute, manage, and close-out all project goals within the established timeline.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable managing projects

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to manage projects

+ 3= I can manage projects

+ 4= I can manage projects and help others improve their ability to manage projects

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MPr: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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State of Louisiana

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Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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