Senior Public Assistance Consultant

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🐎 Kentucky – Remote

🐎 Kentucky – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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Simeon Global Consulting

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Logistics • Consulting

Simeon Global Consulting is revolutionizing government consulting by combining experienced leadership with cutting-edge AI technologies to deliver smarter, faster, and scalable solutions. They focus on measurable outcomes and innovative methodologies while prioritizing a customer-first approach that emphasizes impact and cost savings. SGC offers expertise in emergency management, environmental program management, and healthcare crisis management, ensuring efficient processes and effective solutions that drive excellence in the government sector.

📋 Description

• Own and manage a portfolio of FEMA Public Assistance projects through closeout • Drive large, complex, and high-value obligated projects to timely, defensible final completion • Reconcile obligated versus actual costs and process amendments and versions prior to closeout • Support deobligation or adjustment of unexpended or ineligible funds • Prepare, review, and approve closeout requests and packages for large projects, small projects, and RPA/Recipient-level closeout • Resolve documentation, cost, and eligibility issues delaying closeout • Prioritize the closeout pipeline by risk and deadline and drive projects to completion • Make and defend eligibility and cost-reasonableness determinations on complex closeout matters • Serve as a closeout subject-matter resource and provide guidance and quality review to applicants and less-experienced consultants • Assist applicants with closeout submissions in FEMA Grants Portal • Lead and support responses to FEMA Requests for Information during closeout • Maintain closeout trackers, status reports, and issue logs and report progress and risks to project leadership • Advise applicants on FEMA closeout requirements, documentation standards, deadlines, and PA policies • Assist with disaster-related damage and emergency response cost identification, documentation, and evaluation • Conduct or support site inspections and damage assessments • Assist with DDDs, SOWs, and cost estimates • Evaluate eligibility under the Stafford Act, 2 CFR Part 200, FEMA PA policy, PAPPG, and applicable state requirements • Support project formulation for emergency and permanent work across FEMA PA Categories A–G • Review and reconcile invoices, contracts, purchase orders, labor, equipment, materials, mutual aid, insurance information, and proof of payment • Support cost estimating and cost-reasonableness reviews • Review procurement and contracting documentation • Track projects through the full PA lifecycle • Coordinate resolution of insurance, environmental and historic preservation, hazard mitigation, duplication of benefits, procurement, and other compliance issues • Lead or support appeals, Requests for Equitable Adjustment, and other project submissions • Participate in or lead meetings with applicants, FEMA, state emergency management agencies, engineers, contractors, and recovery stakeholders • Maintain detailed records of communications, decisions, outstanding actions, and project status

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on FEMA Public Assistance closeout experience • Strong demonstrated track record independently taking projects through final reconciliation and closeout, including large and small project closeout, RPA/subrecipient closeout, cost reconciliation, deobligation, and audit-ready closeout packages • Typically 5+ years of FEMA Public Assistance or disaster-recovery experience, with a significant portion focused on project closeout • Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment on complex eligibility and cost matters, manage competing priorities and deadlines, and mentor less-experienced staff • Bachelor's degree in emergency management, public administration, business, engineering, construction management, finance/accounting, or a related discipline preferred • Additional relevant disaster-recovery or FEMA PA experience may substitute for education depending on the position • Deep working knowledge of FEMA Grants Portal, PAPPG, 2 CFR Part 200, project formulation, cost estimating, and procurement compliance • Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and organizational skills • Comfort working directly with governmental applicants and FEMA • At least 18 years old • Eligibility and authorization to work in the United States • Must be located in the United States • Successful completion of company and applicable client background and reference checks • Willingness and ability to travel to various work sites as needed • Willingness and ability to work long hours in emergency response environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Deployment to disaster-affected jurisdictions, extended assignments, and travel may be required • Successful completion of company and applicable client background and reference checks as a condition of employment • Opportunity to work remotely in Kentucky, United States