We have about $10M in annual funding and both pre and post award are housed in the Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research Department.  We have 1 post award person, 1 pre-award person (me), 1 compliance person, a budget person who handles this department’s budget along with expenditure approvals for grants & contracts, a secretary, a part-time “jack of all trades” person and the Vice Provost.  This department handles absolutely everything grant & contract related, including tech transfer and contract negotiations.  We currently have an open position for an additional post award person.  So, as you can tell, we are very small.

 

 

I am trying to negotiate additional staffing for our office and I need some information from other small Universities and institutions with limited research endeavors.  For those organizations that handle anywhere from 5 million or less in active research, including federal and privately funded awards, can you tell me the number of staff in your Grants Office, how much in research funds you have and what are the specific responsibilities of your offices? 

 

Is your office responsible for Pre-award and post-award?  If you only handle Pre-award, who does the post-award and how big is that office? Who is primarily responsible for the grant accounting and how big is that office?

 

Please include secretarial/administrative assistant staff in the staffing numbers.

 

Thank you.

 

Matthew D. Katz, MHA

Assistant Vice President,

Sponsored Research and Contract Management

Western University of Health Sciences

309 E. 2nd Street

Pomona, CA 91766

(909) 469-5567

(909) 469-5569 FAX

www.westernu.edu