Upcoming Training Opportunity: ECRT Basics Training

Dates/Times/Locations

Wednesday, April 17th, 9:30am-12:00pm, Cambridge, 8 Story Street, Room B50 (Basement computer lab / Tuesday, April 23rd, 9:30am-12:00pm, LMA, Countway Library, L-025 (Basement computer lab)

Description

This course will introduce department administrators to effort reporting and the electronic effort reporting and certification system (ecrt), which allows Principal Investigators and Faculty to certify their effort on federally-sponsored projects.  This course will cover the following: 

  • Introduction to effort and effort reporting
  • ecrt roles and responsibilities 
  • Workflow for certification by Principal Investigators and/or Faculty 
  • Workflow for Grants Managers to review and monitor and overall management of certifications during certification periods 
  • Best practices during the pre-certification review period
  • Workflow for Primary Effort Coordinators to monitor the process of certifications in their departments and assign roles and overrides as needed

*Please note that this session will include system demos that will first cover Grant Manger responsibilities. The last 30 mins of the session will be devoted to Primary Effort Coordinators and will cover the additional aspects of the systems their role needs to utilize.

Intended Audience

ecrt Basics training is intended for Grant Managers with responsibility for assisting their faculty during the effort reporting process as well as anyone in the Primary Effort Coordinator role. This is a great opportunity for new ecrt users as well as for existing users who want a refresher.

Recommended Pre-Work

Review of the University-wide Effort Reporting Policy

Registration

Please register for these sessions through the Harvard Training Portal.