Sr. Contract Compliance Specialist

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Manage and monitor grant funding contracts for non-profit agencies focused on crime prevention, ensuring compliance and efficient financial operations.

Pay Range: $31.52 - $40.98/hr. | $65,563 - $85,232 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Sr. Contract Compliance Specialist job is available with the City of Fort Worth Police Department in the CCPD Partners with a Shared Mission Unit.  This team is responsible for facilitating grant funding contracts that are awarded to non-profit agencies conducting crime prevention programming.  This role is responsible for coordinating contract development, monitoring, and requests for reimbursements. 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, finance or a related field
  • Three (3) years of experience preparing and monitoring grant funded community programs
  • Drug Screen, Polygraph, CJIS fingerprint background check

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Three (3)-years’ experience in non-profit administration including working with grant making or grant seeking agencies including site visit monitoring
  • Three (3)-years’ experience working with non-profit program management including administration, program evaluation, program logic models, and program budgets

The Sr Contract Compliance Specialist job responsibilities include:

  • Works with Legal department in leading and overseeing the development and improvement of standardized agreements; and assists in policy and procedure development and improvement
  • Conducts routine program monitoring; reviews files, policies, procedures and process assessments; and prepares monitoring reports
  • Assists in updating and management of contract tracking database and related information; and assists in improvement, restructuring and maintenance of the contract tracking system
  • Reviews revenue, expenditures and balances for all accounts; analyze expenditures to ensure transactions are accurate and appropriate; examines purchase requests; and maintains, reviews and monitors financial records and requests for payments
  • Compiles and analyzes agency monitoring data for audit; presents findings; reports discrepancies; and makes recommendations for corrective action
  • Provides administrative support; receives and responds to requests for information; compiles reports
  • Performs other related duties as required

Working Conditions and Physical Demand 

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions

Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Background Check

Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility.  Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position:  Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class.

Final candidates selected for hire in the Police Department will be subject to a fingerprint/criminal history background check and polygraph examination.  Applicants must not have used marijuana during the previous two (2) years, nor illegally used any controlled substances within the last five (5) years.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Paid Time Off: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities.
Salary
$65,563 – $85,232 per year
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