Project Management Office

• Lead principal investigator (PI) must be a faculty member of the Grainger College of Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, or Agricultural & Biological Engineering.
• The project requesting support for project management must have budgeted for partial support (between 10% to 50% FTE) or have allowable funds to support a project manager.*
• Other considerations:
  • Project management team availability.
  • Projects that request project management support at the proposal stage are prioritized.

*Note: A project is not eligible if it needs a 100% project manager. Interim support may be available until a full-time PM is hired.

We provide a variety of services, including but not limited to:

• Regarding project needs, serve as primary contact for project PI(s), project staff, campus, agency, and university departments.
• Work with PI(s), research teams, and other stakeholders to plan, organize, and implement center-level operational policies and processes.
• Strategize a plan for implementing the research scope to ensure the project milestones are met.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and attend meetings and events, including setting agendas, summarizing outcomes, and communicating meeting deliverables.
• Assign and track action items related to technical and managerial project objectives.
• Compile and summarize project information for reports, presentations, websites, and social media channels.
• Coordinate visits and disseminate necessary communication with granting agencies, research collaborators, and other stakeholders.
• Work with the Office of Technology Management to prepare and file invention disclosures and patent applications arising from project work.
• Relieve PI of programmatic management as relevant to the project, including interfacing with programmatic staff such as human resources, finance, marketing and communications, and the University's Sponsored Program Administration office.
  • Project managers do not replace these other support services but rather complement them.

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