Senior Grants Manager

Job Description

Overview 

We are seeking a Senior Grants Manager to join our team in Chicago, IL.

A Senior Grants Manager provides strategic leadership across grant programs, ensuring technical excellence, compliance, and consistency. This role represents the organization externally, supports business development, and provides final technical guidance on complex or sensitive matters. 

Your role 

• Grant Support: Performs grant writing, reviews, monitoring, cost estimates, reconciliation and reimbursement documentation. 
• Project Assistance: Assists with planning, proposals, scopes of work, specifications, presentations and technical reports. 
• Meetings & Communication: Leads or coordinates meetings and communicates with internal and external stakeholders. Attends conferences and meetings with clients and regulatory agencies to ascertain requirements and assist in the development of appropriate business development strategies. 
• Quality Control: Ensures quality and maintenance of documentation and records. 
• Field & System Work: May conduct site visits. Enter data into tracking systems and maintain databases. 
• Technical Support and Compliance: Analyzes and prepares technical studies and reports and contributes to technical writing. Collects data, performs basic computations, prepares charts/graphs. Maintains awareness of regulatory agency policies, and keeps other personnel informed of changes. Ensures compliance with rules, regulations, policy and guidance and prepares letters of approval. 
• Oversight: Supervises, coordinates, guides, and reviews of project work and the work of junior professionals. 
• Other: Performs such other duties as supervisor may from time to time deem necessary. 

About you 

• Required qualifications include a bachelor’s degree plus ten years of relevant experience; an associate’s degree plus twelve to thirteen years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma plus fourteen to fifteen years of relevant experience. Relevant experience includes planning, finance, disaster management, administration, economics, engineering, or a related technical field. Proficiency in relevant computer programs is also required.
• No certification required; however, preferred certifications include:
  • American Institute of Certified Planners.
  • Geographic Information Systems Professional.
  • Project Management Professional.
  • Certified Grant Management Specialist.
  • Certified Floodplain Manager.

Rewards & benefits 

At AtkinsRéalis, our values—Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, and Excellence—are more than just words. They are the foundation of who we are and how we work. These principles shape our culture, guide our decisions, and inspire us to create an environment where every team member feels empowered to grow, succeed, and make a meaningful impact. 

Depending on your employment status, AtkinsRéalis benefits may include medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits, employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting, employee stock purchase plan, Paid Time Off, leaves of absences options, flexible work options, recognition and employee satisfaction programs, employee assistance program, and voluntary benefits. You can review our comprehensive benefits page here.  

About AtkinsRéalis 

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. 

Find out more.  

Additional information

Expected compensation range is between $84,000 - $139,000 annually depending on skills, experience, and geographical location.

Are you ready to expand your career with us? Apply today and help us shape something extraordinary.

AtkinsRéalis is an equal opportunity, Drug-Free employer EOE/Veteran/Disability 

Please review AtkinsRéalis’ Equal Opportunity Statement here. 

  

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.