URA Support During Proposal Development
Your URA Pre-Award Manager is an excellent resource during proposal development. Contact your assigned Manager once you are aware a proposal will be submitted. We would like to collaborate with you and support you through the proposal development process, allowing the PI to focus solely on the research components of the proposal submission.
Pre-Award Expertise
- Agency Policies/Proposal guidelines: Pre-Award Managers will review guidelines and identify unique requirements for applications. We will work with you to establish a plan of action.
- Collaboration: We are available to collaborate with faculty and departmental administrators to establish a timeline of responsibilities and provide oversite to assure timely completion.
- Subcontracts: Your Pre-Award Manager can coordinate with subcontractors to assure timely and consistent completion of their required components.
- Special Requirements: We can provide assistance and resources with requirements such as technology transfer plans, cost sharing, systems security, letters of commitment, mentoring plans, broader impact statements, current and pending support, data management plans, development of budget, etc.
- Training: Upon request, we are happy to train departmental grant administrators who are new to the position. URA offers regular training opportunities that we recommend all grant administrators attend.
Complex, Interdisciplinary, Projects Exceeding $5M
Pre-Award offers capture management services for large projects. Contact your assigned Pre-Award Manager for details on how we can best assist you.
Additional Assitance
Enhanced Services are offered in the following situations:
- Assistance is available for Units with limited proposal preparation experience
- Pre-Award Managers can serve as the PC within AURA for Units experiencing turnover of key grant administrative staff
- Pre-Award Managers can serve as the PC within AURA for Units experiencing turnover of key grant administrative staff
URA Full Institutional Review Deadline
Complete proposal submitted to URA will receive a full institutional review and comments will be sent to the Departmental Administrator and Principal Investigator. It is our goal to provide comments to the Department within 48 hours of proposal receipt.
Required Proposal Components for Routing Proposal to URA for Full Review & Endorsement
The following components are required for full review and endorsement. These requirements pertain to both the AURA Funding Proposal itself and to the agency application. Prior to routing the proposal, please ensure completeness of the COI Assurance, PI eligibility, and NIH Certification Statement (when applicable).
In Final Form for Review:
When you engage Pre-Award early in the proposal development process, we are able to perform a pre-review throughout that process. For proposals being sent in final form for URA review without prior Pre-Award involvement, the following components should be forwarded to your Pre-Award Manager:
Budget
Budget Justification
All Subrecipient Documents
- Signed subrecipent commitment form
- Statement of Work
- Budget
- Justification
Cross-Departmental Request and/or Approval
Unit Cost Share Request and/or Approval
Application Guidelines
Prior Faculty Correspondence with Sponsor, pertaining to this submission
Unit Commitment (level of effort, resources, etc.)
All Human Subjects Sections, if applicable
All Vertebrate Animal Sections, if applicable
All protocol related requirements, if applicable
Agency-Specific Assurances and Certification, if applicable
In Draft Form Only:
The following components may be submitted in draft form for review in order to give the Principal Investigator the maximum time available to work on his/her research component of the proposal submission:
Project Abstract/Project Summary
Research Strategy/Project Description
References Cited
Current and Pending Support Documents
Required Biographical Sketches
Other Required Components Specific to your Submission
- Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan
- Data Management Plan
- Letters of Support
- Facilities Documents