College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences Grants Administration
Through collaboration between CNMS Business Central and the Dean’s office, the College of Natural Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) offers pre-award proposal services to support grant development and proposal submission for the college’s departments.
Meet the Pre-Award and Proposal Team:
Sarah Jackson
Specialist Grants and Contracts
Natural and Mathematical Sciences
University Center 116
+1 410 455 2247
Taylor Shortt
Grants and Contracts Manager
Office of Research & Creative Achievement (ORCA)
Engineering 329
+1 410 455 8880
Sarah Jackson (Biology, Mathematics, and Marine Biotechnology) and Taylor Shortt (Physics, Chemistry, and the CNMS Dean’s office) are the departmental contracts and grants specialists who provide expertise and guidance throughout the proposal submission process as the primary liaisons to OSP. They are primarily responsible for administering and coordinating all grant applications and contract agreements with OSP in preparation for final submission to the sponsor. Both Sarah and Taylor work together and as each other’s backups should one be out. If you have further questions, comments, concerns or requests please feel free to contact either of them for assistance.
Responsibilities include:
- Review and interpret sponsor policies and guidelines
- Coordinate new PI accounts set up to meet UMBC OSP system requirements and sponsor account registrations [hyperlink to list of PI mandatory training and account set up list]
- Administer the proposal preparation process
- schedule and facilitate grant planning meetings with the PI
- provide templates for proposal preparation
- assist with budget and budget justification preparation
- review all proposal documents to ensure compliance with sponsor and university policies and guidelines
- upload and route all proposals in Kuali and sponsor application platforms
- Support non-financial post-award grants administration activities, including rebudgeting requests, submitting sub-award invoices, submitting sub-award modifications, submitting pre-award account requests, and submitting no cost extension (NCE) requests to OSP
To request pre-award assistance, please submit an RT ticket here [insert hot link to CNMS Business Central RT form Link Coming Soon
Meet the Dean’s Office Administrator for Grant Development & Support:
J. Abarro is the primary CNMS liaison to the Office of Research and Creative Achievement (ORCA, previously OVPR), Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, and other grant support services available on campus internally or externally. Grant support consultations are available by appointment by submitting an RT Ticket under grants development support [insert hyperlink].
Her responsibilities include:
- Identify funding opportunities to support research, equipment, conferences, travel, etc.
- Develop strategic funding plans to identify the most appropriate funding opportunities to increase proposal submission and yield.
- Coordinate grant training and development workshops and seminars
- Provide proposal development support for large scale proposals involving CNMS teams.
- Provide sponsor specific guidance
- Provide successful sample proposals upon request
- Collect and compile large institutional data sets
- Review large-scale proposals for consistency with sponsor guidelines.