Jenna Jones serves as the designated DLSA (Departmental Limited Signature Authority) for Odum and provides cradle-to-grave sponsored project support services. If you have a question or are seeking information about submitting new proposals, managing existing sponsored funds, or planning future proposals please reach out to Jenna for assistance.

Pre-Award Services

• Assist researchers with locating external funding opportunities of interest
• Notify Odum community of opportunities that cover Odum areas of expertise
• Generate custom funding opportunity searches based on researcher identified areas of interest/expertise, researcher agency preference, or other factors
• Proposal development, review, and submission services
• Generate custom proposal checklists highlighting documents required to submit a proposal
• Generate custom proposal timelines to ensure timely review and submission
• Develop and draft proposal budgets and budget justifications
• Assist with updating biosketches, current and pending support, or other documents (sponsor regulations permitting)
• Secure needed proposal documents from external partners (consultants, subrecipients, unfunded collaborators)
• Provide comprehensive compliance-based review of all proposal documents
• Format and upload all proposal documents to various proposal submission systems
• Complete all required sponsor forms
• Sign and submit completed proposals directly to sponsors
• Serve as liaison with Sponsored Projects Administration

Post-Award Services

• Award Management
• Monthly high-level review of project status reports for all active awards
• Assist with budgetary questions (allowable, allocable to project, reasonable cost)
• Review and provide information on award terms and conditions (reporting requirements, etc.)
• Assist with budget revisions
• Assist with payroll review prior to PI certification
• Residual balance requests
• Over the cap set-up
• Faculty Academic Research Buyout set-up
• Cost share/matching set-up and monitoring
• Initiate and submit award modifications with SPA
• PI changes/absence of PI
• No-cost extensions
• Pending/Pre-award documentation
• Scope of work changes
• Other prior approval requests

Odum Sponsored Project Submission Guidelines

• Effective 7/1/22 – all proposals that include graduate student salary support must also include tuition.
• Effective 6/1/23 – indirect cost returns in the Grants portal will be directed to Odum Dean’s office and generating investigators unit.  This will allow investigators to utilize indirect cost returns as these funds are generated.
• Odum DLSA’s ability to provide a comprehensive review of your proposal depends on receiving complete proposal documents ahead of the sponsor’s submission deadline. In order to guarantee full review, please provide complete proposals at least 4 business days prior to the deadline.

Ecology PI Pre- and Post- Award Toolbox (Coming Soon)

For general inquiries, please feel free to reach out to Jenna Jones directly: [email protected].