URAとはなにか
What is University Research Administration
(URA) ?
URAとはなにか？URAは「大学におけるリサーチアドミニストレーター」あるいは、大学アドミニストレーターのことである。リサーチ・アドミニストレーターとは、研究管理者の訳語である。研究管理者とは、事務アシスタントから研究担当副社長まで、スポンサープログラムの管理維持、コンプライアンス、審査、監督を行う人を 指す。研究管理者は、研究者や研究スタッフとのやりとりのあらゆる面で、プロジェクトを完全に実現するという大きな役割を担っている。契約の交渉をするこ と、材料の購入手続きをすること、研究計画書を提出するための編集をすること。これらの機能の一つ一つが、リサーチアドミニストレーターという大きな括り の中で機能しており、それぞれが大学の研究ミッションを満たすために極めて重要な役割を担っている」テキサス大学のURAの解説（抄訳）※なおこの研究は 「URA機能維持と進展の新時代」の一端をなすものである。
What is a Research Administrator? - "We often reflect on the meaning and purpose of our job titles, but in our everyday interactions our work tasks serve as a reminder of the complicated symphony it takes to successfully perform research administration./ A research administrator is anyone – from administrative assistant to Vice President for Research – that performs administrative maintenance, compliance, review, or oversight for a sponsored program. In every aspect of a research administrator’s interactions with researchers/research staff, there serves a greater role of fully realizing the project to completion. Are you negotiating the contract? Are you processing a purchase for materials? Are you editing a research proposal for submission? Each of these functions serves the greater umbrella term research administrator and each is vitally important to meet the University’s research mission." - What is a Research Administrator? - University of Texas at Austin
Research Administrator Responsibilities and Duties - 1. Create accounts as per awarded project budgets and adjust them as per revised award notices.; 2. Support Chair or department head to research and apprise research funding opportunities.; 3. Support business managers and faculty members to prepare grant and funding requests and prepare budget.; 4. Maintain submitted grants database including tracking faculty grant histories and success rates and offering faculty on research opportunities.; 5. Administer departmental research effort reporting and submit signed effort certificates complying with guidelines, collaborate with central administration to represent research faculty needs and maintain grant awards and agreements’ records.; 6. Ensure principal investigators and division business managers handle research funding spending.; 7. Ensure department grants and contracts comply with federal and state legal needs and MB policies before Office of Research and Development review.; 7. Assure serving of faculty by UMB office of technology transfer and office of sponsored programs and institutional review board.; 9. Generate and approve purchase requisitions for payment and travel reimbursements.; 10. Interface with Research Finance, prepare cost transfers and resolve deficits.; 11. Evaluate expenditure documents as per guidelines for allowability and appropriateness.; 12. Advise principal investigators and departmental manager on research funding issues.; 13. Ensure grant proposals and subcontracts’ timely renewal and completed activities’ orderly closeout.; 14. Research compliance issues such as human subjects, animal welfare and biohazards and oversee staff attendance at safety training.; 15. Support continued development of department’s research strategic plan as per UMB priorities.; Research Administrator Responsibilities and Duties
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