Description and Functions

• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, and Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Pension Plan with a state contribution of 14.94%
• Optional 457B plan with a state contribution
• Paid Vacation and Sick Leave including 10 paid Holidays

• Performs all aspects of grant management for assigned grant program areas including fiscal oversight, sub-recipients federal compliance monitoring, and technical assistance.
• Review grant funding requests within assigned program areas for applicability.
• Writes grant agreements, internal scope of work, and amendments to include required elements from Federal regulation, State regulation, and department audit section requirements.
• Verifies monthly expenditures and supporting documentation, and makes corrections as needed to vouchers and expenditure reports.
• Maintains documentation of transactions per general accounting procedures and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) audit requirements.
• Ensures expenditures are allowable and do not exceed grant limitations and the scope of the project.
• Monitors project activities, objective progress, and compliance with federal rules and regulations.
• Performs annual on-site monitoring of sub-recipients' activities and expenditures.
• Provides technical assistance for sub-recipients within assigned program areas.
• Participates in federal and state financial audits of assigned grant program areas.
• Analyzes behavioral data determining trends to aid decision making, as to grant awards.
• Analyzes behavioral-related traffic records information to determine trends affecting safety on Wyoming roadways for inclusion in the Highway Safety Performance Plan and Problem Identification reports.
• Provides program area narratives and budgets for inclusion in reports.
• Interprets application's reasonableness and past performance of sub-recipients.
• Rewrite appropriate grant funding requests into project narratives for inclusion in the Highway Safety Plan.
• Summarizes assigned program areas in narratives detailing project successes and/or challenges and final budgets.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of writing Grants Contracts.
• Knowledge of Federal Rules and Regulations 23 CFR 1300 and 2 CFR 200.
• Knowledge in expenditure tracking, project review, and project activities as required by Federal Grant Regulations.
• Knowledge of safety issues and associated information: seatbelts, child restraints, airbags, impaired driving, traffic violations, and national campaign efforts.
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics, data compilations, and summarization with the ability to summarize information for public consumption.
• Knowledge of the agency accounting reports verifying expenditure pass-through.
• Knowledge of evaluating data and writing a narrative report of findings.
• Knowledge of other state and WYDOT programs/committees related to traffic safety.

Necessary Special Requirements

• Travel will be required for meetings, monitoring, and training.

• FLSA: Non-Exempt
• E-Verify: WYDOT uses E-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
• Qualifying eligibility and criteria for the hiring bonus
  • Temporary employees accepting a full-time permanent position.
  • Current employees accepting a promotional opportunity - recruitment must have been opened to the public.
  • One year of service to WYDOT must be completed, failure to complete this requirement will forfeit the hiring incentive; funds will be recouped from final pay.
  • Internal candidates would be required to remain in the position for a minimum of one (1) year from their promotion date.
  • Employees would only be eligible for one (1) hiring bonus in a 12 month period.
  • If the employee elects to downgrade through an active recruitment and/or appointment during the twelve (12) month period, they would be required to pay the bonus back.

Supplemental Information