Additional Help

2.6 Administrative Personnel

Add the people who will be serving as Administrative Personnel on the project. Administrative Personnel are people other than the Principal Investigator to whom questions about the project can be addressed and to whom correspondence about the project should be sent.

DIRECTIONS:

Expand/CollapseAdd Administrative Personnel - First Time
  1. Type the key personnel last name and click Find.

    TIPS: Search by last name, verify exact user name if you cannot find a person, do not use special characters.

  2. Select the correct person from the list.

    TIP: If you cannot find the correct person, click User not found? to create an account for a user that does not exist.

  3. Select the UM role.
    UM roles include:
    • UM Principal Investigator
    • Sponsor Principal Investigator
    • Participating Investigator With Specified Effort
    • Participating Investigator Without Specified Effort.

  4. If applicable, type the Sponsor Role.

    Note: Several of the UM Roles listed above differ from titles used in sponsored project activities. More typical examples of such titles are Co-Investigator, Senior Scientist, Collaborating Investigator, Other Significant Contributor (NIH-defined role), etc.

    Use this to capture the project role as defined in the proposal for each key person.

  5. Select what edit rights the person should have.
    PAF: Can edit the PAF whenever it is available to edit.
    SF424: Can edit SF424 after it is generated and before it is submitted to the sponsor.

    Note: If no PAF and/or SF424 edit rights are selected for the person, he/she will only be able to view PAF and/or SF424.

  6. Click Save.

    Note: You still need to add appointment information for the person.
Expand/Collapse Add More Administrative Personnel
  1. Click Add.

  2. Follow the steps above in Initially Add Key Personnel.
Expand/Collapse Edit Administrative Personnel Information
  1. Click Edit by the person's name.

  2. Select the correct person from the list.

  3. Make changes, as needed, to:
    • Roles (UM or Sponsor)
    • Edit Rights (PAF or SF424)

  4. Click Save.

Expand/Collapse Delete Administrative Personnel
  1. Select the person.

  2. Click Delete.

  3. Click OK to the warning box.

Expand/Collapse User not found?/User Doesn't Exist?/Create Account

If you cannot find the correct person, click User not found? to verfiy that the user does not exist in the M-Pathways Human Resources system and then, if needed, create an account for a user not found.

Verify Whether the User Exists

  1. Select Uniqname or Last Name as the Search Type.

  2. Type Uniqname or Last Name in the Name field (based on Search Type selected).

  3. If Flint/Dearborn student, select Flint/Dearborn student.

  4. Click Search to search the M-Pathways Human Resources system for the person.

  5. If user(s) match your search criteria, the name(s) will appear below your search criteria.
    Note: If the person is currently associated with UM and you cannot find them, contact the MAIS Help Desk.

  6. Click the person's name, to create an eResearch Proposal Management account for him/her.

    He/she will be sent an email confirming his/her access to eResearch.

  7. If person is not currently associated with UM, select this option.

  8. Complete the required fields & click Save.

    Note:     If the person will need to login & use the eResearch system, you will need to coordinate with him/her in the creation of a UM Friends Account (creates an ID to allow non-UM users to login into some UM systems).

    He/she must create a UM Friends Account using the same preferred email address that you entered on this page. If the email addresses do not match he/she will not be able to login to eResearch.
To see a demonstration on how to use this page, see the People Section of the PAF online course.