General Information
Email: snsgrants@ucmerced.edu
Website: naturalsciences.ucmerced.edu/grants
vacant, Grants Manager
- Oversees entire grants portfolio for the school
- Non-routine grants related issues
- Provide Cayuse Training
- Policy Guidance
- Assist with audits
- Summer Salary
Michelle Dutra, Research Administrator
Supports the following faculty Bylaw 55 Units:
Molecular Cell Biology and Life & Environmental Sciences
- Award Receipt/Allocation Set-up
- Review terms & conditions
- Award projection creation
- Work with faculty on re-budget, if any
- FAU/Allocation request
- Award Administration
- Approves purchases, travel reimbursements
- Monitors expenditures, payroll/appointments, encumbrances
- Monthly reconciling/projections
- Payroll transfers/NPEARs/Journals
- Assist with proposal budgets, budget justifications and Cayuse record
- Notify faculty of account balances near end date (3 month, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week)
- No-cost Extensions
- Assists with Financial Progress Reports for faculty
- Assists with effort reporting
- Ensures awards are adhering to Federal, State, and UC policies]
- Award Closeout
- Complete grant closeout checklist
- Tracking final expenditures/Closing encumbrances
- Complete Accounts Receivable report
- Complete IDC calculator to ensure correct amount was charged
- Confirm with faculty Final reports have been sent to sponsor
- Verify all appointments have ended or need to be moved
- TOF cleanup
- Confirm account closed in OASIS system
Lorena Magana-Aguilar, Research Administrator
Supports the following faculty Bylaw 55 Units:
Applied Mathematics, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Physics
- Award Receipt/Allocation Set-up
- Review terms & conditions
- Award projection creation
- Work with faculty on re-budget, if any
- FAU/Allocation request
- Award Administration
- Approves purchases, travel reimbursements
- Monitors expenditures, payroll/appointments, encumbrances
- Monthly reconciling/projections
- Payroll transfers/NPEARs/Journals
- Assist with proposal budgets, budget justifications and Cayuse record
- Notify faculty of account balances near end date (3 month, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week)
- No-cost Extensions
- Assists with Financial Progress Reports for faculty
- Assists with effort reporting
- Ensures awards are adhering to Federal, State, and UC policies]
- Award Closeout
- Complete grant closeout checklist
- Tracking final expenditures/Closing encumbrances
- Complete Accounts Receivable report
- Complete IDC calculator to ensure correct amount was charged
- Confirm with faculty Final reports have been sent to sponsor
- Verify all appointments have ended or need to be moved
- TOF cleanup
Joyce Yowell, Research Administrator
- More information forthcoming
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