A few colleges/departments at our institution are planning to hire a grant administration staff to assist with their respective college's grant-related operations (pre and post-award). These individuals will not report to our central office. However, our central office does plan to meet with them to outline operating protocols for working between their college PIs and our central office. In preparation, I have been thinking through what roles to provide them and how to best outline the operating procedures.
For other institutions using SP4 and who have a central office that interfaces with college/departmental grant administration staff:
- What roles do you provide these individuals in their Cayuse profile?
- I was considering Award Viewer and Proposal Viewer for their college (parent unit; and all sub-units) so they can be aware of the grant activity for their college. However, that role is not able to utilize the notes feature of the forms and can only use the task feature. I wasn't sure if this has been prohibiting for anyone.
- Has anyone already worked out a solid operating procedure for working with college/departmental staff from the central office I would love to hear (or see if you have links) how you have constructed their operations.
Any other thoughts on this topic are greatly appreciated.
Happy holidays, everyone.
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Clayton Cottle
Director of Research and Sponsored Programs
Sam Houston State University
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