Directors Forum
As a director, you fill a vital role in research administration. You are uniquely positioned to bridge senior leadership and individual employees in your institution’s organizational structure. With our new Directors’ Forum track, we are offering targeted sessions to address areas of development for current and future directors and to provide forums for open discussions between directors from multiple institutional types and regions. We envision this track as an opportunity to discover new concepts and ideas, learn from experts and peers, and evaluate and share critical issues.
Financial Management / Post-Award
Provides administrative research staff with an understanding of best post-award and financial management practices that include the regulatory framework for the direct and indirect costing of sponsored program activities, financial management decision-making and fiscal compliance of sponsored funds. Topics include: research cost accounting; auditing; OMB requirements; matching funds/cost sharing; financial conflict of interest; facilities and administration costs; purchasing; equipment and property management; salaries, compensation, honoraria; and travel allocability and allowability; working with sponsoring agencies and sub-recipient monitoring.
New World of Work
Educational offerings related to the research administration workflow design, management, and employee training that provide direction, motivation and growth opportunity in this new world of work. Topics include leadership, work/life balance, self-assessment, supervisor/staff relations, team work and collaboration, human resources and international personnel management.
Pre-Award
How to develop collaborative partnerships with industry, government and non-profit sectors; identifying strategies in developing public-private partnerships; institutional capacity building, including supply-side partnerships; faculty, positioning; effective grant writing techniques; the role of the research administrator in sponsored programs development; diversifying funding sources; communication strategies in sponsored programs development; and organizational and team structures to support successful program development.
Science and Security/Export /Law