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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington

Prepares and manages contracts for the Homeless Strategy and Investment Division. Monitors agencies to ensure compliance with federal, state and local fund source requirements and program guidelines while providing technical expertise. Negotiates, prepares and administers a variety of service contracts with multiple agencies, with programs supporting; diversion, outreach & engagement, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing and shelter services. Provides a variety of technical support to agencies, negotiating and monitoring outcome-based contracts. Expands partnerships with other City Departments, non-profit agencies, governmental entities and community partners to streamline and improve service delivery. • Inspects agency performance by completing comprehensive on-site monitoring including; evaluating agencies’ adherence to City & Federal program rules and policies through review of records, verifying the accuracy of monthly billing and addressing contract issues. • Prepares and executes contracts with agencies, serving as lead for the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) program.• Supports agencies in meeting complex program requirements through technical assistance and training. Acting as a resource for policy implementation supporting high-quality program operations.• Acts as a liaison between internal and external partners, agencies and funders.• Works effectively with all parties to collaboratively address issues, provide policy guidance and share information.• Prepares reports and presentations on program and services for internal and external stakeholders.• Technical expertise in; Section 8, McKinney CoC and HOPWA funding.• Ensures regulation adherence by preparing follow up correspondence and notices of corrective actions. • Knowledge of Washington State Tenant Landlord Law.

Seattle, Wa

Responsible for ensuring PATH complies with required donor rules and regulations, award terms and conditions for each agreement and issuance of sponsored project agreements entered into by PATH. • Contributed to successful project implementation and completion by ensuring a well-managed contract process including; adherence to donor compliance, financial resources and timelines.• Negotiates, initiates, reviews and executes new awards, amendments, cooperative agreements and key contracts.• Built effective, efficient and compliant agreements in alignment with donor, local, federal and international compliance rules, regulations and standards.• Guides and advises Project Administrators, Legal, and other HQ Business units on terms and conditions of active awards, including any restrictions. Develop necessary tools to make this data available electronically.• Ensured all necessary determination have been by liaising with the Research Determination Committee (RDC) and Research Ethics Committee (REC).

Seattle, Wa

Created, improved and managed cost proposals including budget, budget narrative, cost/price analysis of partner budgets, partner budget negotiations and documentation and cost documentation. Drove ongoing improvements to the cost proposal development process and built recommendations for management action.• Improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness of producing proposal budgets. Educate programs and other support units on changes in donor guidelines and requirements and how these changes could impact PATH’s policies and procedures. • Managed internal quality control on proposal budgets and provided input to proposal teams to help set strategic costing approach for proposals. • Built, implemented and managed cross-discipline team to create enterprise best-practice standards for cost proposals including; technical presentations, risk management, cost analysis, donor regulations and compliance.

Seattle, Wa

Managed all agency contracts and grants from initial set-up to completion. Implemented contract monitoring best practices, which include: legal complexity, risk assessment, regulation compliance, timeline adherence and budget analysis.• Developed, modified and maintained multiple reporting and record keeping systems for varied and complex sources of funding which resulted in increased project team and financial department efficiencies.• Built business requirements, performed data migration, tested and managed contract database and tracking system. Contract categories supported included: independent consultant, client, cooperative agreement, grantee and memorandums of understanding along with revenue and expense related to those contracts. This tool provided access to contract information agency wide. • Partnered with legal counsel to reduce the complexity of the contracts and grants process. This project resulted in simplification of workflows; including the creation of templates. These templates allowed additional employees the ability to manage this work reducing project administrative costs. • Established a consistent schedule of client billing that lead to a 70% quicker turnaround time in payments received.• Streamlined multi-million dollar grant award cycle ensuring over 50 grantee organizations were adhering to contractual requirements and receiving grantee payments within multiple annual deadlines.• Managed complex million dollar federal grant through entire project life cycle, drafting and implementing sub-awards, including subcontracts and sub-agreements.• Created and managed comprehensive grant reporting processes for the agency. This included detailed reporting that tracked budgets and closed out the projects on time while fulfilling grant requirements.• Standardized contract and grant process adopted by 100% of the organization.

Seattle, Wa

formerly operating as: AIDS Housing of WashingtonExecuted broad range of accounting and asset management functions for non-profit organization.• Created, analyzed, and presented complex fiscal reporting for: annual audit, funder requirement compliance and contractual obligations.• Managed accounts payable, entered and reconciled property financials and staffed committee meetings. • Developed property inspection documentation and coordinated site visits to over 100 units across 15 locations twice annually, reporting and meeting all grant requirements.

Seattle, Wa

Resolved significant fiduciary discrepancies between clients and media outlets.• Developed and maintained over 50 project budgets valued up to $500,000 working with client contacts while prioritizing based on business need.• Analyzed external agreements and performance data to advise clients to maximize their advertising spend effectiveness and value. Analytical variables included: markets, platforms, volume and duration.• Worked cross functionally in the development of new business processes that improved data analysis, client relations and workflows.