Post Award Grant Administration Stabilization Update
- The Award Setup backlog has been trending down for several weeks and has declined 41% since early January. In response to the high volume of Award Setup Requests (ASRs), training efforts have been focused on creating capacity for experienced team members who can review and process ASRs.
- Three FTE have been trained on the final federal report process. Two additional FTE will be hired later this month for a total of 12 FTE. GCA continues to work with the DATAGroup on fully automating the final report process for the two most common financial report formats (SF-425 and UW ROE), which will significantly increase process efficiency.
- GCA will stand up a new Closing Team on Monday, April 22 to focus on reducing the closeout backlog beyond triaging only urgent items.
- The Office of Research, UWIT and Finance, Planning and Budgeting partnered to produce a suite of new resources for grant reporting. The Post Award Dashboard displays grant expense and balance data in table and visual format using data available in Workday. This tool provides an alternative way to access this data for users who are not as familiar with Workday and groups data into two primary views: Grant Expenses and Balance Remaining.
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