The Center for Integrative Brain Research’s Business Office provides comprehensive post-award management for all sponsored research activities for full center members.
What Is Included in Post-Award Management?
- Advance activity setup and budget modifications
- Preparation of detailed budget reports and projections
- Expenditure/payroll reconciliation and review, to ensure that charges are accurate, reasonable, allocable and appropriate to the award or activity
- Annual progress report submissions to sponsor
- Salary composition detail (SCD) form preparation (Children’s University Medical Group/University of Washington Physicians)
- Effort report review, ensuring accuracy prior to obtaining principal investigator (PI) signatures
- Researching and identifying resolutions to budget inquiries and problems
- Monitoring financial payment schedules with sponsors to ensure timely submission of invoices and receipt of payment
- Monitoring expiration dates of funding; preparing and distributing notifications to PI
- Deficit monitoring and correction
- Project close-out coordination, including reconciling revenue and expenditures and requesting final invoices (incoming and outgoing)
- Ongoing training for PIs and research staff in grant preparation and submission, budget reconciliation and research funding opportunities
- Deficit monitoring and correction