Effort Reporting

An Administrative PI is assigned to a sponsored award when a Project PI has a conflict of interest or in other scenarios where it is necessary to have another PI review submissions, reports, or fiscal management.

In Workday, the Administrative PI is assigned as “PI” to ensure all Workday approvals will flow to that individual for review. Because the Administrative PI is assigned as the PI in Workday, the Administrative PI will also be assigned as the “Certifier” for Project Statements in ECC.

The University does not track hours or have a time-tracking system; Workday allocates costs based on payroll costing allocations and the University’s effort system, ECC, is used as an after-the-fact system to document that the charges reasonably reflect the employee’s (faculty or non-faculty) total activity on sponsored and non-sponsored awards. 

If a sponsor is requiring hours or hourly rates on budget forms or other proposal documentation, we recommend adding the language below to the budget justification:

Situations where total effort shown on ECC Effort Statements does not equal exactly 100% fall under one of these two situations: