Summary

This position is located in the Office of Grants Management (OGM), Office of the Deputy Chairman for Management & Budget, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The incumbent serves as the Supervisory Final Reports Officer, providing senior-level leadership, oversight, and technical authority for the Agency's final report review and award closeout functions.

Duties

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In this position, you will serve as Supervisory Grants Management Specialist. Typical work assignments include:

• Directing agencywide final report review and awarding closeout operations for grants and cooperative agreements across all program disciplines.
• Reviewing and approving complex or high-risk final report determinations, amendments, payment actions, and closeout decisions for regulatory and financial compliance.
• Developing and maintaining policies, procedures, internal controls, and guidance governing final reporting, award closeout, payments, and amendments.
• Supervising Final Reports staff by assigning work, setting priorities and performance expectations, evaluating performance, and supporting employee development.
• Overseeing delinquency management, enforcement actions, and corrective strategies for late, deficient, or noncompliant final reports.
• Improving workflows, tools, and electronic processes to strengthen efficiency, data quality, compliance tracking, and transparency.
• Advising senior leadership and coordinating with legal counsel, auditors, oversight officials, and federal partners on complex reporting, closeout, and compliance matters.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• Complete the initial online assessment and USAHire Assessment, if required
• Status Candidates must submit an SF-50 and recent appraisal.
• Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level).
• Time-in-Grade must be met by the closing date of the announcement
• Only experience obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.

Qualifications

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Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the Specialized Experience requirements as noted below.

In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the following specialized experience requirement:

Specialized Experience for this GS-14: You qualify for this GS-14 grade level (starting salary $143,913) if you possess one year of specialized experience in the Federal service or equivalent public or private sector experience at a level comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-13 grade level performing all of the following duties:

• Leading final report review and award closeout operations for grants or cooperative agreements under federal financial assistance requirements.
• Resolving complex or high-risk reporting, financial, or compliance issues involving grant awards.
• Developing policies, procedures, or guidance for final reporting, grant administration, or award closeout.
• Leading, coordinating, mentoring or supervising staff responsible for final report review, compliance determinations, and award closeout activities.
• Analyzing compliance trends and grants management data to support corrective actions and operational improvements.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the advertised grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the dates worked and total number of hours per week.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS resume template. However, if you do not use the template you must ensure that your resume contains ALL required information which includes hours worked, starting & ending month and year, and if Federal employment (series, pay plan, and grade).

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

Education cannot be used to qualify for this position.

Additional information

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy.

Identification of promotion potential in this announcement does not constitute a commitment or an obligation of management to promote the employee selected at some future date.

If you are claiming CTAP eligibility, you must submit proof by 08/16/2026 that you meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(a) for CTAP or you will not receive priority consideration. The proof includes a copy of the agency notice, your most recent Performance Rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty station. To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority of this vacancy, you must earn a minimum score of 85 (prior to the assignment of veteran's preference) on the rating criteria for this position.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online if at all possible. Applying online, through your USAJOBS account, will expedite the application process and allow you to check your application status as well as verify the documentation submitted with your application.

All documents must be received by 08/16/2026.



Benefits

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