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The Senior Principal – Federal Grants Management Services will drive growth for Attain Partners’ grants management services across the federal market. This role will build trusted relationships with federal executives and build company partnerships to shape opportunities and lead the full business development and capture lifecycle—from account planning and pipeline development through proposal submission, award, and transition to delivery.

The Senior Principal will position Attain Partners’ capabilities across the federal grants lifecycle, including program strategy and design, pre-award and post-award operations, recipient monitoring, risk and compliance, technical assistance, closeout, data and analytics, organizational change, and grants technology modernization. Working closely with practice leaders, subject-matter experts, delivery teams, contracts, and marketing, this individual will translate agency priorities into differentiated solutions that improve program outcomes, stewardship, and the customer and recipient experience.

Required Skills

Demonstrated success selling consulting, professional services, technology-enabled services, or managed services to U.S. federal agencies.
Strong knowledge of the federal grants lifecycle, including program design, pre-award, award, post-award administration, monitoring, compliance, audit readiness, technical assistance, and closeout.
Understanding of federal financial assistance requirements and policy, including 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Guidance) and related agency regulations.
Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior federal executives, grants and program leaders, acquisition professionals, and industry partners.
Experience developing federal account strategies, identifying and qualifying opportunities, shaping requirements, and converting opportunities into a measurable pipeline.
Experience leading capture activities, including win strategy, competitive analysis, teaming, solution development, pricing coordination, win themes, and proposal strategy.
Experience leading or playing a significant role in compliant, persuasive federal proposal submissions.
Ability to communicate the value of multidisciplinary solutions that combine grants domain expertise, process improvement, data and analytics, change management, and technology modernization.
Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and coordinate multiple opportunities and deadlines in a fast-paced consulting environment.
Experience maintaining accurate opportunity, pipeline, and forecast data in a customer relationship management system.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Desired Skills

Established relationships within federal grant-making agencies, such as the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security/FEMA, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Education, Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, or Commerce.
Experience selling services related to grants operations, program integrity, recipient oversight, compliance, technical assistance, or grants management system modernization.
Familiarity with Grants.gov, SAM.gov, federal shared services, and agency grants management platforms.