Who We Are

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring future-ready pioneers to innovate. We’re looking to grow our teams with people who are ready to collaborate in building communities and expanding our skylines. To do this, we hire candidates of all experiences, skillsets, backgrounds and walks of life. We actively foster a work environment and culture where inclusion and diversity is part of our fundamental structure. This is delivered behaviorally, through our policies, trainings, local partnerships with professional diverse organizations, internal networks and most importantly with the support and sponsorship of our leaders who help drive our commitment to an inclusive, diverse, welcoming and equitable work environment. Anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Grants Strategy and Development Director. This position could work out of WSP's offices in Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Boston or any other WSP office nationwide.

WSP’s Grants Development & Management group supports our clients in planning, preparing, winning, and managing competitive grant funding from federal, state, and local sources. We offer clients the technical and strategic experience to select the most competitive projects for funding and develop compelling grant applications.

This position would focus on serve Government, Transportation and Energy clients nationwide helping meet their equity objectives through advising on technical and strategic considerations in developing and selecting selecting projects with the best equity outcomes for competitive funding. As a member of our national Grants Development & Management group, the Senior Consultant will develop compelling grant applications to fund client projects across an array of disciplines.

Your Impact

• Develop grants and design funding strategy for public infrastructure projects, on behalf of clients, and in collaboration with the Grants Strategy and Development team and other WSP practice groups
• Lead client engagement; foster client relationships; keep current with trends, opportunities
• Serve as Project Manager for grant assistance contracts; manage scope, schedule, and budget
• Lead business development activities in pursuit of grant support consultant contracts
• Demonstrate general knowledge of federal policy and grant guidelines
• Support the professional growth of our junior consultants within Grants Development and Management group
  
  Talent is the essence of meeting our client’s objectives, goals and challenges. If this sounds like a fit for you, we’d love to have that first discussion of you joining our team.
  

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Grant strategy and writing experience for governments and non-profits programs
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven people management experience, leading diverse teams
• Ability to work well with multiple deadlines and flexibility to adapt to unanticipated client requests for grant development support
• Nimble at adapting to change
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

Preferred Qualifications:

• A demonstrated passion for helping clients successfully pursue and manage grants
• Familiarity with US Department of Transportation or other federal competitive grant programs
• Grant strategy and writing experience for federal programs
• Familiarity with state discretionary grant programs
• Past project management experience, including projects, schedule, staffing, and budget
• Post Graduate Education (Graduate Level Courses Short Courses, Masters, PhD in Planning or other related disciplines)
• Active member of local professional organizations
• Participation on conference program with panels, poster sessions, papers and presentations

Compensation and Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

Expected Salary: $175,900 - $190,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Additional Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Additional Details

• Travel Required: N/A - No travel required
• Job Status: Regular
• Employee Type: Full
• Primary Location: WASHINGTON - 23RD STREET NW
• All locations: US-CA-Los Angeles, US-DC-Washington, US-IL-Chicago, US-MN-Minneapolis, US-MO-St Louis, US-Remote

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper. www.wsp.com

WSP provides a flexible, agile and hybrid workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.