I will be out of the office until Wednesday, January 31st. If you have a question that requires an answer before then, please call 5-5000. Otherwise, I will reply when I return. Thanks. Louise >>> "xxxxxx@hrinet.org" 01/30/01 23:00 >>> There are 5 messages totalling 478 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Intern vs Employee (2) 2. Funding Levels (2) 3. SENIOR CONTRACT AND GRANT SPECIALIST OPPORTUNITY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:57:38 -0500 From: "Bonnie J. Brautigam" <xxxxxx@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US> Subject: Re: Intern vs Employee Other institutions in PA with which I am familiar (e.g. the DOH) would consider them to be "interns" paid as temporary, part-time, non-exempt employees, who must be paid by the hour worked, with overtime for extra hours. Dan Snyder <xxxxxx@ACNATSCI.ORG> on 01/29/2001 07:50:57 PM Please respond to Research Administration Discussion List <xxxxxx@hrinet.org> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG cc: (bcc: Bonnie J. Brautigam/Wadsworth/DOH) Subject: [RESADM-L] Intern vs Employee I'm hoping to get some guidance sorting out the issues of intern vs employee, and subcontractor vs employee, as it relates to the following situation. We expect to employ a couple of college students this summer on an externally funded contract. They will have to follow study protocols (i.e., we will have the ability to specify exactly how they perform their work), but they will also receive instruction/education beyond that needed for the sponsored program at hand, and will have the opportunity to conduct their own mini-projects. We are a private, non-profit research institution, with education programs but not degree granting. Our Project Leader wants to hire them as "interns", at a fixed pay amount per week, regardless of their hours worked. However, my understanding is that they are simply temporary, part-time, non-exempt employees, who must be paid by the hour worked, with overtime for extra hours. Thus, paying a fixed amount per week would not be appropriate. Is this correct? I've also been asked whether they could be employed as "subcontractors". However, they are students, do not have their own insurance (e.g., liability) in place, and do not offer their services widely and support themselves as subcontractors - they are simply getting summer jobs. Woudn't it be correct to say that a designation of "subcontractor" would be definitely inappropriate? Dan Snyder Patrick Center for Environmental Research Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, PA ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:03:07 -0500 From: Audrey Buck <xxxxxx@POBOX.UPENN.EDU> Subject: Funding Levels Good morning. Can anyone tell me where to look for the different funding levels at NIH. Example: Cancer Institute versus General Medicine max awards. Thanks very much, Audrey Audrey C. Buck Senior Contract Administrator Research Services Phone: (215) 573 6709 Fax: (215) 898 9708 email: xxxxxx@pobox.upenn.edu ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:13:21 -0600 From: "Caskey, William PhD." <xxxxxx@CMH.EDU> Subject: Re: Funding Levels Go to the NIH Web site (www.nih.gov), select Grants and Funding Information, Grants Page, Awards Data, and you'll see historical funding broken down from the perspective of NIH, types of awards, institutions, and a lot more...Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: Audrey Buck [SMTP:xxxxxx@POBOX.UPENN.EDU] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:03 AM > To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG > Subject: [RESADM-L] Funding Levels > > Good morning. Can anyone tell me where to look for the different funding > levels at NIH. Example: Cancer Institute versus General Medicine max > awards. > > Thanks very much, > Audrey > > > > Audrey C. Buck > Senior Contract Administrator > Research Services > Phone: (215) 573 6709 > Fax: (215) 898 9708 > email: xxxxxx@pobox.upenn.edu > > > ====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:39:09 -0500 From: "Barbara L. Pifel" <xxxxxx@MED.CORNELL.EDU> Subject: SENIOR CONTRACT AND GRANT SPECIALIST OPPORTUNITY --============_-1231238943==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Cornell University Weill Medical College Senior Contract and Grant Specialist Responsibilities: The primary responsibity is to coordinate and administer contracts and grants from proposal review and submission through award. He/She will ensure proposed terms and conditions are in compliance with applicable reguations and do not conflict wih existing commitments. Additional rsponsibities include providing review and oversight of grant application and contract proposal submission, ensuring compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB), IACUC, FDA, and granting agencies. Provides assistance to faculty in the preparation and processing of applications including program project grants. Review terms and conditions of new contractual agreements and evaluate changes to pre-existing agreements. Reviews and negotiates clinical testing, material transfer and confidential disclosure agreements. Negotiates modifications to subcontract agreements. Participates in the development and implemention of research and sponsored programs policies and regulations. Maintains up-to-date knowledge and expertise in federal/state/parivate agencies' regulations and policies, and staying abreast of new laws and OMB circulars which affect sponsored program activities. Reviews final award documents prior to the establishment of accounts. Post award responsibilities include review and/or drafting modifications to changes in grant/contract documents. Responsible for preparing and conducting educational/orientation programs for faculty and department administrators. Provides assistance to new faculty to find new funding opportunities with new and diverse sponsors. Qualifications: Candidates must have a a strong customer-orientated attitude and a masters degree along with 4 years of experience in higher education. Experience in a health care setting and a terminal degree is preferred. Additional years of experience in the sponsored research, higher education arena may substitute for the masters degree requirment providing that the applicant has a bachelor's degree. Position requires tact, diplomacy, a highly developed degree of judgment, initiative and the ability to work independently. Candidates must be proficient in working with the implementation of an electronic research administration system and have a broad range of computer skills. Strong communication, organizational and intepersonal skills are essential. Demonstracted ability to execute multiple tasks and respond to multiple demands as part of a team and to work and interact collaboratively; skill in problem solving; and ability to consider multiple alternatives are required. Contact Information: Barbara Pifel, J.D. Senior Director Research and Sponsored Programs Weill Medical College 1300 York Avenue, A-131 New York, NY 10021 Telephone: 212 746-6020, 6058 Fax: 212 746-6938 E-mail: xxxxxx@med.cornell.edu Barbara Pifel Senior Director Grants and Contracts Rm: A131 Telephone: (212) 746-6020 6-6058 Fax: (212) 746-6938 --============_-1231238943==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <center><bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger><bigger>Cornell University Weill Medical College </bigger></bigger></fontfamily></bold></center><bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger><bigger> </bigger></bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger><center>Senior Contract and Grant Specialist </center> </bigger><bold><smaller>Responsibilities: </smaller></bold><smaller>The primary responsibity is to coordinate and administer contracts and grants from proposal review and submission through award. He/She will ensure proposed terms and conditions are in compliance with applicable reguations and do not conflict wih existing commitments. Additional rsponsibities include providing review and oversight of grant application and contract proposal submission, ensuring compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB), IACUC, FDA, and granting agencies. Provides assistance to faculty in the preparation and processing of applications including program project grants. Review terms and conditions of new contractual agreements and evaluate changes to pre-existing agreements. Reviews and negotiates clinical testing, material transfer and confidential disclosure agreements. Negotiates modifications to subcontract agreements. Participates in the development and implemention of research and sponsored programs policies and regulations. Maintains up-to-date knowledge and expertise in federal/state/parivate agencies' regulations and policies, and staying abreast of new laws and OMB circulars which affect sponsored program activities. Reviews final award documents prior to the establishment of accounts. Post award responsibilities include review and/or drafting modifications to changes in grant/contract documents. Responsible for preparing and conducting educational/orientation programs for faculty and department administrators. Provides assistance to new faculty to find new funding opportunities with new and diverse sponsors. <bold>Qualifications: </bold>Candidates must have a a strong customer-orientated attitude and a masters degree along with 4 years of experience in higher education. Experience in a health care setting and a terminal degree is preferred. Additional years of experience in the sponsored research, higher education arena may substitute for the masters degree requirment providing that the applicant has a bachelor's degree. Position requires tact, diplomacy, a highly developed degree of judgment, initiative and the ability to work independently. Candidates must be proficient in working with the implementation of an electronic research administration system and have a broad range of computer skills. Strong communication, organizational and intepersonal skills are essential. Demonstracted ability to execute multiple tasks and respond to multiple demands as part of a team and to work and interact collaboratively; skill in problem solving; and ability to consider multiple alternatives are required. <bold>Contact Information: Barbara Pifel, J.D. Senior Director Research and Sponsored Programs Weill Medical College 1300 York Avenue, A-131 New York, NY 10021 Telephone: 212 746-6020, 6058 Fax: 212 746-6938 E-mail: xxxxxx@med.cornell.edu </bold></smaller></fontfamily> Barbara Pifel Senior Director Grants and Contracts Rm: A131 Telephone: (212) 746-6020 6-6058 Fax: (212) 746-6938 --============_-1231238943==_ma============-- ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:54:18 -0600 From: "Quinn, Bradley L" <xxxxxx@OU.EDU> Subject: Re: Intern vs Employee The question is whether they are to be paid as employees or as independent contractors. Terms like intern, stipend, fellowship, subcontractor, etc. can confuse the issue. They sound like non-exempt employees to me so they would have to be paid as such. Faculty are often paid on a flat-fee basis for summer school but they aren't non-exempt employees either. Students in the summer might be considered independent contractors under some circumstances, but not when their work is "exactly" specified. -----Original Message----- From: Bonnie J. Brautigam [mailto:xxxxxx@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:58 AM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Intern vs Employee Other institutions in PA with which I am familiar (e.g. the DOH) would consider them to be "interns" paid as temporary, part-time, non-exempt employees, who must be paid by the hour worked, with overtime for extra hours. Dan Snyder <xxxxxx@ACNATSCI.ORG> on 01/29/2001 07:50:57 PM Please respond to Research Administration Discussion List <xxxxxx@hrinet.org> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG cc: (bcc: Bonnie J. Brautigam/Wadsworth/DOH) Subject: [RESADM-L] Intern vs Employee I'm hoping to get some guidance sorting out the issues of intern vs employee, and subcontractor vs employee, as it relates to the following situation. We expect to employ a couple of college students this summer on an externally funded contract. They will have to follow study protocols (i.e., we will have the ability to specify exactly how they perform their work), but they will also receive instruction/education beyond that needed for the sponsored program at hand, and will have the opportunity to conduct their own mini-projects. We are a private, non-profit research institution, with education programs but not degree granting. Our Project Leader wants to hire them as "interns", at a fixed pay amount per week, regardless of their hours worked. However, my understanding is that they are simply temporary, part-time, non-exempt employees, who must be paid by the hour worked, with overtime for extra hours. Thus, paying a fixed amount per week would not be appropriate. Is this correct? I've also been asked whether they could be employed as "subcontractors". However, they are students, do not have their own insurance (e.g., liability) in place, and do not offer their services widely and support themselves as subcontractors - they are simply getting summer jobs. Woudn't it be correct to say that a designation of "subcontractor" would be definitely inappropriate? Dan Snyder Patrick Center for Environmental Research Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, PA ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of RESADM-L Digest - 29 Jan 2001 to 30 Jan 2001 (#2001-22) ************************************************************** ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================
