1. Research Administrators’ Forum
Elizabeth H. Adams
Assistant Vice President of Research Administration
August 22, 2017

2. OSP Staffing Update Tina Hollins, Senior Grants Administrator
Matt Winter, Grants Assistant
Danial Weinstein, Senior Accountant
Three Huron consultants
Additional offers and recruitments in process

3. FY17 close
Research funding is increasing at UVA impressively in a hypercompetitive environment
8% dollar value growth from FY15 to FY16; 10% dollar value growth from FY16 to FY17
Growth is across federal agencies and business sectors as well as schools/disciplines
This is not happening everywhere
Some highlights:
NIH funding is up 9%
NSF funding is up 19%
Department of Energy is up 17%

4. Looking ahead While the growth has strained current infrastructure
We are making progress in the development of a preaward enterprise system (ResearchUVA)
Electronic Proposal Routing Form (ePRF) soft launched on 7/1/17
Account modification forms (SP23, SP30) and workflow scheduled for FY18 delivery
We are now commencing work to interface ResearchUVA and Oracle
This will gain OSP significant efficiencies in the account establishment function
We are improving our reporting ability and execution (the Juice application in ResearchUVA will launch soon)
Proposal data quality remains a significant reporting--and transactional--issue
We continue to make hires from top research institutions/organizations that will add to the operational strength of preaward and postaward administration, as well as information/data
Preaward has made 2 recent hires and is constantly engaged in recruitment

5. Optimization of important processes
Proposal submission
Agreement negotiation and signature
Funded agreements
Agreement, SOW and budget
Review of budget and agreement negotiation (as appropriate) occur in parallel
Three signatories
Nonfunded agreements
Agreement and SOW
Two signatories
Sensitivity to publication restrictions, intellectual property, risky terms
Account establishment
Consistent use of statuses and comments in ResearchUVA