Training Toolbox

Training Resources for OKED and Research Operations Staff

Research Academy

• The series designated for OKED and Research Operations teams provide information designed to onboard new staff.
• Staff can also find and register for upcoming OKED professional development events on a variety of topics.

OKED Professional Development Resources for RAs

The resources listed here are applicable to any unit administrator or staff member who is responsible for assisting investigators with identifying funding opportunities, proposal development, and/or management of sponsored project funds. RAs include those with an Resarch Advancement job title, as well as those with other ASU job titles.

Research Academy

• The Getting Your Start as an RA series provides information designed to onboard new RAs.
• New RAs should contact researchacademy [at] asu [dot] edu (subject: add%20user%20to%20the%20RA%20series) to be granted access to the Getting Your Start as an RA series.
• RAs can also find and register for upcoming OKED professional development events, including the monthly RA Seminar series.

RA Seminars > Professional Development

• Building the Future
• Crossing Boundaries
• Introduction to Mentoring
• Professional Development
• Workload Management and Organization
• Yes! You’re Right! Now, How Are You Going to Solve the Problem?
• You’re in Charge of Yourself

RA Seminars > Technical Knowledge

• Allowability: Making Appropriate Decisions on ASU’s Sponsored Projects (Part 1 of 3)
• Allowability: Making Appropriate Decisions on ASU’s Sponsored Projects (Part 2 of 3)
• Benefits of the Blueprints: Proposal Compliance Made Easy
• Best Practices for Audit Readiness
• Compensatory vs. Noncompensatory Stipends
• Compliance at ASU - Part 1
• Compliance at ASU - Part 2
• Contract Negotiations 101
• Contract Type and its Impact on Proposal Preparation
• Cost Sharing: The Life and Death of Cost Sharing
• Cost Sharing: Advanced Topics in Cost Sharing
• Cost Sharing: The Total Package
• Effort Reporting Basics for the RA
• ERA - Process Impacts
• ERA Agreements Module
• ERA System Q&A
• Fly America Act
• Horizon 2020
• Intellectual Property
• International Projects and Relationships
• International Sponsored Projects
• ORIA Q&A
• Overcoming Budget Hurdles
• Pivot Funding Search Tool: How to Use Pivot to Help Find More Funding Opportunities
• Post-Award Management Series
  • Session 1 - Sponsored Financials
  • Session 2 - ORSPA Action Forms
  • Session 3 - Cost Transfers
• Q&A Panel with Award Management Team
• Record Retention, Sponsored Project Monitoring and the Impact on Audits
• Research Analytics and the Importance of Proposal and Award Data
• Sponsored Project Expense Advance
• State Cost Sharing and Working in ERA
• The ASU-ASUF Charitable Grants Process
• The Basics of the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations)
• The F&A Rate Proposal and Updating the DS-2
• Tips and Solutions to Award Management Challenges
• Transferring Awards In and Out of ASU
• Uniform Guidance
• Using ASU Experts
• Working Effectively with AMT
• Working with NASA and DOE: An RA Perspective

Other Professional Development Resources for RAs

• ASU Professional Development resources
• National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
  • NCURA Educational Programs
  • NCURA Facebook
  • NCURA Twitter
  • NCURA YouTube
• MAXIMUS Higher Education
• Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI)
  • SRAI Education Programs
  • SRAI Facebook
  • SRAI LinkedIn
  • SRAI Twitter
• National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP)
• Association for Proposal Managers (APMP)
• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Certification Opportunities
  • National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) workshops qualify for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.
  • Research Administrators Certification Council (RACC) offers 3 designations: Certified Research Administrator (CRA); Certified Pre-Award Research Administrator (CPRA); and Certified Financial Research Administrator (CFRA).
  • Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI) offers 12 certificates in research administration.

Resources for RAs to share with Investigators

OKED Research Academy

• The Kick Off Your Research series provides researchers with grantsmanship instructions, tips, information, and resources designed to help streamline grant writing. There researchers can find step-by-step modules on
   
  • identifying and analyzing potential sponsors
  • searching for funding
  • writing their grant proposals

                   •  Access Kick Off Your Research

• The site also provides access to professional development events that are available exclusively to ASU researchers.