Conference: Creation of a National Job Classification System for Research Administrators

会议：为研究管理人员创建国家职位分类系统

• 批准号: 2324360
• 负责人: Jennifer Woodward
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324360&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Creation; National; Job; Classification

A robust research administration workforce strengthens the research enterprise, promotes faculty recruitment and retention, assists with balancing research demands and heavy teaching loads, and increases the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM. This project aims to contribute to the development of a national research administrator job classification system applicable to the wide array of administrative roles that support sponsored research activities. A national job classification system is needed to extend access to research administration support across disciplines and address workforce challenges at all institutions, especially emerging and minority-serving institutions. The lack of a formal, national job classification system negatively affects employee retention. This retention problem results in significant financial loss and diminished productivity. This problem is often more pronounced in emerging and minority-serving institutions because it can be difficult for these institutions to hire and retain qualified research support talent at competitive market salaries. This diminishes their capacity to submit competitive applications for external funding to support research. A national job classification system for research administrators will level the playing field for hiring and retaining research administration staff across all institutions.The three-phase conference project, to be implemented in collaboration with the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI), uses focus groups, surveys, and panels to explore current issues surrounding the research administration workforce and the need to create a national job classification system. A steering committee of stakeholders, including members from the SRAI, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), and Northern Illinois University, has been formed to provide strategic direction. The project seeks to overcome barriers to conducting funded research at all academic institutions by focusing on the support provided by research administrators for proposal writing, submission to external funding agencies, and award management; identifying the challenges of recruiting, retaining, and compensating qualified research administrators to enhance institutional competitiveness for research funding; and highlighting the need for a formal job classification framework for research administration roles. Deliverables include a summary paper for each phase of the conference and a final report summarizing the discussion about challenges in obtaining funding for research, making key recommendations for developing a national job classification system, and creating organizational models to support research administration infrastructure and financing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

一项强大的研究管理局的劳动力加强了研究企业，促进教师招聘和保留率，有助于达到平衡研究需求和沉重的教学负担，并增加了代表性不足的少数群体参与STEM的参与。该项目旨在为发展适用于支持赞助研究活动的各种行政角色的国家研究管理员工作分类系统的发展做出贡献。需要一个国家的工作分类系统来扩展跨学科的研究管理支持的访问，并应对所有机构，尤其是新兴和少数派服务机构的劳动力挑战。缺乏正式的国家工作分类系统会对员工保留产生负面影响。这种保留问题导致财务损失巨大，生产率降低。在新兴和少数族裔服务机构中，这个问题通常更为明显，因为这些机构很难雇用和保留竞争性市场薪水的合格研究支持人才。这降低了他们提交竞争性申请以支持研究的能力。针对研究管理员的国家工作分类系统将在所有机构中招聘和保留研究管理人员的竞争环境。将与研究管理人员国际协会（SRAI）合作实施三阶段会议项目，使用焦点小组，调查和小组，以探索围绕研究管理劳动和创建国家职位分类系统的当前问题。一家利益相关者的指导委员会，包括SRAI，大学和大学人力资源专业协会（CUPA-HR）和伊利诺伊州北部大学的成员，已成立为提供战略方向。该项目旨在克服所有学术机构进行资助的研究的障碍，以研究研究管理员为提案写作提供的支持，向外部资助机构提交的支持以及奖励管理；确定招募，保留和补偿合格的研究管理人员的挑战，以增强研究资金的机构竞争力；并强调需要为研究管理角色制定正式的工作分类框架。可交付成果包括会议的每个阶段的摘要论文和一份最终报告，总结了有关获得研究资金的挑战，为开发国家工作分类系统提出的关键建议，并创建组织模型来支持研究行政管理基础架构和融资。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估智力的MERIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和BRODIT和广泛的影响。