Transcript OSP Action Teams - University of Washington

OSP Update
Lynette Arias
Assistant Vice President for Research
Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
[email protected]
OSP Leadership Team transitions
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Michael Corn - Associate Director, Team C
◦ Retiring on December 18th after 15 years with UW
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Richard Glover – Assistant Director, Team B
◦ Transitioning into Senior Contracts Specialist role
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Carol Rhodes – Associate Director
◦ Now leading newly developed Contracts Team
◦ Also leading team of Program Coordinators, that
have transitioned from within Teams A, B and C
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Amanda Snyder, New Associate Director
◦ Team B and C
◦ Subawards – Effective approx 3/1/2015
OSP Staff updates
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Team C administrators & GCC staff shifting to
report to Amanda Snyder
(Lynn French, Peggy Hartman, Yordi Michaels and Kevin
Kovach)
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Team PC’s transitioning to report to Carol
(Jeanette Salskov, Amy Giles, Caroline Sawe and Elaine
Eldridge)
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New Office Assistant – Jason Brumfield
◦ To assist with [email protected] email box
New Learning, Communication & Outreach
Specialist – Mara Rivet
 Updated Org Chart & Dept Assignments coming
soon on OSP web page!
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Contracts Team
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Contracts Team reports to Carol Rhodes
(Rick Glover, Matt Hawkins, Karl Neumann and
Wade Taylor)
Karl and Wade – Non-fed clinical trial
agreements (as is happening currently)
 Rick and Matt – non-clinical trial
agreements
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Contracts Team
Provides additional resources and expertise
to OSP
 Supports OSP in the timely and effective
handling of contractual awards and other
agreements
 The is no change to the OSP departmental
contacts/assignments!
 Please continue to use the OSP web site to
determine your contact at OSP
 The contracts team is operating as internal
OSP resource for these individuals
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Contracts Team
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Research agreements and other sponsored
programs have become increasingly more
complicated
Team will help address items such as:
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Complexity
Difficult clauses
Disputes
Pre-award considerations
Intra-institutional relationships
Standardization of acceptable UW terms
Provide training and resources
Adding additional staff
2 Compliance Analysts / Administrators
 1 Subaward Administrator
 2 Full-time UW temps to assist with Ariba
implementation (approx 3-6
months/supported by Finance)
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Staffing & FTE analysis underway
Developing detailed staff & FTE analysis
 Along with review of scope of services
 In CY2015 - target to provide detailed
report on resource needs for current
scope of services
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