WIC/Title V Grant Finance Analyst-Public Health

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Hiring Agency:

Health & Human Services - Agency 25

Location:

Lincoln, NE

Hiring Rate:

$23.367

Job Posting:

JR2025-00021401 WIC/Title V Grant Finance Analyst-Public Health (Open)

Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):

12-19-2025

Job Description:

The DHHS Division of Public Health is looking for an inquisitive and detail-oriented person to support the grants management aspect of programs that serve families across Nebraska. This position will support the NE Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) as well as other maternal, child, and adolescent health programs in the division.

As the WIC/Title V Grant Finance Analyst, you'll be a part of a team that supports multiple programs in the Lifespan Health Services Unit. This position is expected to be half-time in WIC and half-time supporting Title V Maternal Child Health (MCH)-supported programs. This person’s role will focus on keeping internal processes on track to support the missions of these programs.

The WIC/Title V Grant Finance Analyst will be responsible for ensuring that the program is following grants management requirements and federal regulations; for learning and following the DHHS procurement and accounting processes to ensure that subawards and contracts are executed correctly; and that the payments are accurate and made in a timely manner.

A suitable candidate for this position will be interested in understanding the mission of a program and be comfortable providing the administrative support structure to help those programs be successful. This will include developing expertise with financial procedures, working with data, calculations, spreadsheets, maintaining strong organizational processes, and communicating with various partners.

Examples of Work:

• Manage the timeline for grant awards in partnership with program staff
• Manage internal processes between program staff and agency procurement to ensure award documentation is accurate and timely
• Analyze and process invoice requests and provide initial approval for payment to subrecipients, contractors and others using the DHHS system.
• Track and maintain status information on contracts, grants and projects for purposes of contract management and managing program budgets and funding requests. Develop expertise in federal regulations as well as grant-specific rules to support the program manager in compliance and monitoring activities
• Lead the development of financial risk assessments and subrecipient monitoring processes.
• Monitor spending of approved budget, track expenses to ensure allowability, allocability and reasonableness and provide information to the Program Manager to assist with program administration.
• Collaborate with program and accounting staff to ensure accuracy of Federal Financial Reports.
• Track federal policies related to funding grants and ensure policy implementation.
• Analyze financial transactions by reconciling budgets with expense reports
Support budgeting and financial outlay scenarios by performing complex financial and mathematical calculations

Requirements / Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, or other appropriate curriculum, plus two years of significantly related work experience, or a combination of education and experience equivalent to the above requirements. Experience can be substituted for education on a year for year basis.

Preferred Qualifications: E xperience in federal grant management, contract administration, accounting, budgeting, and/or DHHS accounting and procurement systems.

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Benefits

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