Advisory Council for Research Administration
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Description: Advisory Council for Research Administration 62121 Monday 200pm 400pm Zoom Meeting 1 2 WELCOME Agenda Welcome Central and Community Updates Open Positions Pooled Testing Best Practices Proposal Summary Form Audit Fiscal Year End
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Advisory Council for Research Administration 6/21/21 Monday 2:00pm – 4:00pm Zoom Meeting 1 2 WELCOME Agenda Welcome Central and Community Updates Open Positions Pooled Testing Best Practices Proposal Summary Form Audit & Fiscal Year End Questions Summer Reading and Fall Planning 3 Central Updates Department/School staff working in research administration Email from Diane requesting updates Suggestions for how we keep this more current Organizational Change – July 1 Goal is to optimally support the full life cycle of an award and more closely align with Financial Affairs units that will strengthen our overall segregation of duties control environment Three PAFO units will join SP Research Accounting, Compliance and Service Center Administration Two PAFO units will join VPFA (Nicole Tirella) Research Finance & Property Management and Facilities Cost Analysis 4 5 Community Updates/News: Developing Research Staffing changes Job Postings Promotions News Upcoming changes In the horizon 6 Job Postings DIRECTOR, FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION, Pardee School of Global Studies Tracking Code: 4469 Contact : Call 617-358-0988 or email the general box at psgs@bu.edu RESEARCH ADMINISTRATOR, Post Award Financial Operations Tracking Code: 1536 Contact: Maureen Dillion mudillion@bu.edu FINANCIAL AND GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR,MED School of Medicine, Dean's Office Tracking Code: 0716 Contact : Solaris Bujor srbujor@bu.edu FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR,CAS College of Arts & Sciences, Math & Statistics Tracking Code: 6626 Contact : Marla Krauss mkrauss@bu.edu PROPOSAL AND GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR, College of Arts & Sciences, Physics Tracking Code: 5755 Contact : Marla Krauss mkrauss@bu.edu CONTRACT SPECIALIST, Sponsored Programs Tracking Code: 9357 Contact : Diane Balwin Dbaldwin@bu.edu Pooled Testing 7 8 Shared Services-Best Practices Update 9 Shared Services-Best Practices Update 10 Overall inventory and status update Next Steps Future additional topics The Shared Services pilot sought to document best practices in the area of BU research administration and share with the research community, in an effort to provide consistent support and guidance for processing internal actions. 11 Best Practices Inventory Best Practices Inventory 12 Other topics? Email Suzanne Rocha (rochas@bu.edu) and Kristin Sacca (ksacca@bu.edu) Best Practices – Next Steps: The completed inventory items posted online as a resource package for the entire community Additional inventory items brought to ACRA for feedback and added to the resource package noted above Blog post from SP? 13 Proposal Summary Form 14 PSF Changes F&A waiver: added link to website Cost Share: added free text box for description of cost share + selection for Mandatory / Voluntary Committed. Changed language to
