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Roles & Responsibilities of Effort Reporting

Project Director/Principal Investigator

  • Expend effort throughout the life of the project.
  • Provide timely information to departmental personnel to facilitate payroll distribution and changes to distributions. Review charges throughout the life of the project to ensure accuracy.
  • Ensure that PI effort and effort of other individuals working on the project is certified accurately and in a timely manner.
  • Comply with sponsor requirements regarding any significant reductions (normally >25%) in effort commitments on funded sponsored activities.
  • Support and endorse cooperation with University Compliance and monitoring efforts related to effort reporting.

Department Support Staff Administration

  • Validate that effort commitments are accurately entered into the university effort system.
  • Coordinate with the unit effort coordinator in ensuring the PD/PI reviews and certifies all effort reports accurately.
  • Work with the PD/PI to resolve any effort commitment or salary cost issues arising during the review of the effort report.

Chair/Director

  • Establish departmental procedures supporting University policies and procedures for proposing, expending, and certifying effort.

Central, Dean, College Administration, or Center Director

  • Establish college/unit procedures supporting university policies and procedures for proposing, expending, and certifying effort.
  • Clearly delineate the college/unit expectations in meeting the department administration responsibilities for all areas of effort management.

Grants Accounting Team

  • Collect budgets in a format that facilitates entry of all key personnel commitments and cost-sharing commitments into institutional effort systems.
    • Validate and enter effort and paid and cost-shared commitments into the university’s accounting system.
    • Resolve inconsistencies between commitments and certified effort.
    • Resolve issues identified with retroactive salary adjustment to certified effort.

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