Project Specialist Jobs

Company Overview:

FCMC is a growing Florida-based management consulting firm specializing in emergency management, disaster mitigation, and community resilience for public, private, and non-profit sector clients. Headquartered in Tallahassee, the firm brings the insight and creative strategies needed to deliver outstanding results to clientele around the nation. FCMC’s team of consultants work to deliver exceptional value to their clients through their combined expertise in hazard mitigation planning, grants administration, floodplain management, urban and regional planning, and emergency management.

Summary:

Project Specialists provide administrative and programmatic support through all stages of the federal and state grant program lifecycle - pre-award review, project implementation, progress monitoring, and award closeout. Project Specialists are responsible for communicating expectations and requirements with project applicants, analyzing proposals and budgets, ensuring compliance with the established program requirements, and providing coordination between Local, State and Federal levels of government and other entities.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Assist client performance management of FEMA funds through routinely and proactively assessing the overall portfolio, anticipating challenges, and providing recommendations.
• Assist with federal and client-specific reporting requirements.
• Oversee the lifecycle of mitigation projects from pre-award review to award closeout, communicating and collaborating with all applicable parties (counties, cities, state, etc.).
• Draft project agreements, reviewing requested modifications and updating as needed until a final agreement has been executed.
• Research and maintain fluency in rules and regulations associated with various federal programs, including but not limited to FEMA, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF), programs under the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA), or other federal funding workstreams with state and local clients.
• Track and monitor budgets; communicate results with project and client management.
• Form trusted advisor relationships with clients, project management, state agencies, sub-recipients, and internal subject matter experts.
• Continuously monitor active projects, reviewing quality reports, processing payments, communicating with all involved parties, and ensuring compliance regulations are met.
• Submit completed project applications to FEMA for funding.
• Upon completion of projects, oversee final project inspections and closeout processes referencing the original project agreement.
• Collect, analyze, organize, and summarize financial/grant data.
• Review mitigation project applications submitted, ensuring proper procedures are followed during the application review process, and answering questions as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies, Hazard Mitigation, Urban Planning, Public Administration, Water/Conservation Management, Environmental Science, Emergency Management, Economics, or a related field.
• Involvement in FEMA's HMA initiatives, including HMGP, FMA, and BRIC programs preferred. This experience may include participation in comparable mitigation or resilience programs at the federal or state level, federally funded disaster recovery programs, or a combination thereof.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook, and Adobe.
• Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) experience preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 1+ year professional work experience required.