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The 2024 SRAI Southern/Northeast Section Meeting will offer three (3) Certificates in full:

2024 SRAI Southern/Northeast Section Mtg: Certificate Tracking Booklet

Certificate Guidelines and Tracking Booklet

Guidelines

The Society of Research Administrators International maintains 10 Certificate programs encompassing every aspect of Research Administration – Hospitals, Universities, Nonprofits, and Commercial Institutions. SRA International’s Certificate programs offer comprehensive training specific to today’s educational needs of research administrators.

  • The curriculum for each program includes required workshop(s), four (4) to eight (8) required sessions and one (1) to six (6) elective sessions.
  • Certificate program course credit is earned and awarded only if full SRAI membership is in effect at the time the course is taken. In other words, only full members may receive credit for taking Certificate program workshops and sessions. Chapter members, non-members and those with lapsed membership will not receive educational credit for any Certificate program sessions or workshops taken during this time.
  • SRAI members have up to three years to complete the courses from a specific Certificate program requirement, allowing you greater flexibility to manage time, travel and budget constraints. 

Certificate Tracking Booklet

The Certificate tracking booklet allows members to easily record their progress. You can write in the name of the meeting and the year on the line that corresponds with the session or workshop. 

Learning Tracks

Learning Tracks are designed to develop the content in a way that assures value added opportunities for attendees. A secondary aim is to assist attendees to effectively plan their educational time. The tracks represent major subject and issue areas for research administration.

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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