Training Resources for OKED and Research Operations Staff
- 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 a Research Advancement job title, as well as those with other ASU job titles.
- The Getting Your Start as an RA series provides information designed to onboard new RAs.
- New RAs should contact researchacademy@asu.edu 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
- Yes! You’re Right! Now, How Are You Going to Solve the Problem?
- You’re in Charge of Yourself
RA Seminars > Technical Knowledge
- Additional Funds for a Sponsored Project: How to Process an Award Modification or Renewal
- Allocation Methodologies & Benefit to the Project (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- 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)
- Allowability: Making Appropriate Decisions on ASU’s Sponsored Projects (Part 3 of 3)
- Asking Ourselves the Right Questions to Make the Important Decisions (NCURA)
- ASU Core Facilities
- ASU Issued Subawards
- ASU Library Resources & Support for Sponsored Projects
- ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center
- Best Practices for Audit Readiness
- Budget Justifications (NCURA Webinar)
- Challenging Conversation with Investigators
- Charitable Grants 101
- Compensation Compliance Under Uniform Guidance – Where Are We Now? (NCURA Webinar)
- Conferences and Meetings (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Contract Negotiations 101 (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Contract Type and its Impact on Proposal Preparation
- Cost Share: Tackling the Challenges (NCURA)
- Cost Share: The Good, the Bad, and the Horror (NCURA)
- Cost Sharing Do's and Don'ts (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Cost Sharing: The Life and Death of Cost Sharing
- Cost Sharing: Advanced Topics in Cost Sharing
- Cost Sharing: The Total Package
- Cost Transfers
- Demystifying the Limited Submissions Process
- ERA Award Change Requests at the Six Month Mark
- ERA Current & Pending Tool
- ERA Funding Proposal Budgets (Research Academy modules)
- ERA to WD Award Integration Overview
- NCURA: Excel Tips (Part I & Part II)
- Faculty Onboarding
- Federal Demonstration Partnership Expanded Clearinghouse (slides)
- Forecasting Tool Training Webinars
- Foreign Influence Requirements Roundup (NCURA Webinar)
- Foreign Influence on Research (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Foreign Influence Reporting Requirements (RAD Session)
- Federal Rules & Regulations Workshop (NCURA Webinar)
- Financial Compliance: Cost Transfers: Minimizing the Need, Monitoring the Process and Managing the Risk (NCURA)
- Financial Post-Award Essentials (NCURA)
- F&A - Beyond the Basics, (Plus: Sneak Peak of Grants.gov Workspace Feature)
- F&A Research Academy Training
- Guidance on the Preparation of NIH Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) (NCURA)
- Get to Know Global Operations
- Going Global (NCURA Webinar)
- How to Prepare to Receive an Award
- Identifying Grant Revenue & Sponsor Payments
- Impact of ERA FP Data Integrity - Session 1 (Proposal Titles, Sponsor Entries, Additional Personnel, and other FP datapoints)
- Impact of ERA FP Data Integrity - Session 2 (HERD Survey, Recognition (REC), Analytics reports)
- Impact of ERA FP Data Integrity - Session 3 (Special Reviews, Intellectual Property, F&A Rate Entries, and other FP datapoints)
- Intellectual Property
- International Operations, Proposal Phase through Project Execution
- Introduction to After-the-Fact Review Reports
- IRB Basics for ASU Research Administrators
- Know your Proposal GCO: The Keys to Successful Proposal Review and Submission
- MS Teams Site for the RA Community (20-minute Intro)
- Navigating It Depends (NCURA)
- Navigating Post-Award Systems – How Do I Find the Information I Need?
- NIH Fundamentals (NCURA Webinar)
- NCURA Agency Day: NIH Update
- NCURA Agency Day: NIH Q&A with the OPERA - Data Management & Sharing and Disclosures
- NCURA Agency Day: NSF Proposal & Award Policy Update
- NSPM-33: Best Practices and Lessons Learned (NCURA Webinar)
- Onboarding Your Staff in the Virtual World (NCURA)
- Open House with AMT
- ORCID and the OSTP Guidance on NSPM-33 (NCURA)
- Organizational Conflicts of Interests – What are They and What to do with Them?
- Overview of Research Development and the Proposal Manager Role
- Participant Support (NCURA)
- Principal Investigator Reports Dashboard Demo & Q&A
- Procurement: An Overview of ASU’s Purchasing Processes and Policies
- Proposal Budgets 101 (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Proposal Budgets 201 (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- RA Post-award Basics Series: Your Award is Here! Now What?
- MAXIMUS: (Recharge Centers) Service Centers: Are They Right For You?
- Record Retention, Sponsored Project Monitoring and the Impact on Audits (No Video, Slides Only)
- Research Data Security
- Set Yourself Up for Success: The Role of Unit Administrators in the Award Set-Up Process
- Sponsored Recognition
- Research Administration: Everything You Should Know (SRA)
- Research Compliance Across the Lifecycle (NCURA)
- Strategies for Helping Researchers Find Funding Opportunities
- Subaward Contracts and Invoices in Workday
- Subawards: Sense and Sensibility. (NCURA)
- Subrecipient Monitoring (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Subawards and Subrecipient Monitoring (NCURA)
- The Right Metrics (NCURA)
- Tier II and Tier III Proposals, Panel Discussion
- Travel Like a Pro (Tri-University Research Administration Conference session)
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks and Mitigations
- Uniform Guidance for Federal Procurements
- Updates to the ASU-ASUF Charitable Grant Guidelines
- USAID Proposals
Other Professional Development Resources for RAs
- ASU Professional Development resources
- National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
- MAXIMUS Higher Education
- Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI)
- 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 How to Get Research Funding 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 How to Get Research Funding
- The site also provides access to professional development events that are available exclusively to ASU researchers.