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Job Opening: Grants Management Specialist (Corrections)

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking an applicant for a Grants Management Specialist opening within the Policy Office's Corrections, Reentry, and Justice Reform Division. The position will serve as a Senior Policy Advisor and expert/authority designing and directing efforts involving the Justice Reinvestment Initiative and other data driven justice reform efforts.

Duties include the following:

  • Designs and directs efforts involving data collection, analysis, use, and associated challenges across agencies as well as interplay between state and local systems and agencies.
  • Provides expert criminal justice advice and guidance on the Justice Reinvestment Initiative and other data driven reform efforts relating to grant and/or cooperative agreement projects and programs.
  • Evaluates and recommends action to decision makers on concept papers, abstracts, applications for funding, and related matters.
  • Serves as a BJA representative in corrections, reentry, and justice reform on agency or inter-agency task forces whose members include high-level Department of Justice officials and other executive branch representatives.

View the job announcement for all duties associated with the position and directions on how to apply for consideration.

Date Published: February 1, 2023