#  Upcoming Training Opportunities 

 





October 12, 2022

 

 

 Dear Research Administrators,

 We wanted to take a moment to tell you about upcoming training opportunities available this month. Please see below for session details and how to register.

##  NCURA Live Webinar - Successfully Onboarding Your Staff in the Virtual World

###  Date/Time/Format: October 13th, 2022 / 2:00pm-3:30pm / Live Virtual Webinar

 **Description:** Onboarding newly hired employees includes welcoming and successfully integrating them into your office. Introducing new, remote team members to the culture while helping them understand how their role and individuals they support impact the overall organization involves a multimodal approach. Since the pandemic, hiring remote staff requires innovative ways of communicating, collaborating, thinking and training. This webinar will provide organizational socialization strategies and tips from three different perspectives to ensure new staff are set up for success and retention.

 Upon completion of the webinar, participants will be able to:

- Analyze gaps and identify challenges in current onboarding structure
- Create a successful virtual onboarding framework
- Utilize available resources and develop new ones

 **Audience:** Research Administrators

 **Registration:** Please [register for the NCURA Live Webinar through the Harvard Training Portal](https://trainingportal.harvard.edu/Saba/Web_spf/NA1PRD0068/common/leclassview/virtc000000000017667).

##  Financial Award Management II: Analyzing Cost Principles

 **Date/Time/Format:** October 19th, 2022 /1:00pm- 3:00pm / Live Virtual Training

**Description:** This course incorporates activities and case studies to help participants think through complex questions regarding allowability of costs on federal awards and how non-compliance with cost principles can lead to audit findings. We will also consider how internal controls plays a role in ensuring cost principles are applied when charging federal awards. Activities include budget analysis, allowability Q&A, and an audit case study.  
Learning Objectives:- Apply cost principles to ensure responsible spending
- Identify and interpret appropriate policies and guidelines to ensure expenditure compliance
- Anticipate problematic costs to prevent audit findings

 **Audience:** Research Administrators  
**Pre-Requisites:** We strongly recommend [Cost Principles and Direct Costs on Sponsored Awards (University-wide)](https://trainingportal.harvard.edu/Saba/Web_spf/NA1PRD0068/common/leclassview/dowbt000000000007620) for participants. Please note, this course is not foundational and achieving objectives is based on participation.

 **Registration:** Please [register for Financial Award Management II through the Harvard Training Portal](https://trainingportal.harvard.edu/Saba/Web_spf/NA1PRD0068/common/leclassview/virtc000000000017523)

##  Live webinar - Faculty Effort

 **Date/Time/Format:** October 25th, 2022 /1:00pm- 3:00pm / Live Virtual Training

 **Description:** This advanced course focuses on the lifecycle of faculty effort and reinforces important policy requirements and definitions. Participants will have the opportunity to apply concepts and perform effort calculations during this course.   
By the end of this session participants will be able to:

- Define proposed effort, committed effort, and certified effort as they change over the life an award
- Explain effort commitment principles to researchers
- Determine when prior sponsor approvals and adjustments are required
- Perform and explain and review complex effort calculations

 **Audience:** Research Administrators, Primary Effort Coordinators, Grants Managers, Research Portfolio Managers, Managers and Associates Directors of Research Administration in local level managing units.

 **Registration:** Please [register for the Faculty Effort session through the Harvard Training Portal](https://trainingportal.harvard.edu/Saba/Web_spf/NA1PRD0068/common/leclassview/virtc000000000017694).



 

 

 



 

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