Building Complex Proposal Budgets – Proposal Preview and Tips on Direct Cost Budgeting

About the 5/29 Webinar:  In this webinar, participants will learn how to develop complex budgets for large research center projects. Topics covered will include a presentation on how different costs can be supported through campus-wide policy development and resource planning tools. The presentation will end with a deep dive by building a sponsor budget task-by-task and aligning that budget to schedule milestones and tasks.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Effectively engage your sponsored programs office and other campus stakeholders to develop institutional policy around direct costs

• Understand different ways to budget complex proposals and justify different types of allowable costs under University guidelines, eg provisional Service Centers, electronic Systems, Capital expenses, and administrative effort.

• Gain proficiency with factors that impact the budget including by-task or milestone driven project budgets. 

Format of webinar: 90-minute presentation, followed by 55 minutes of discussion.

Topic: Building Complex Proposal Budgets – Proposal Preview and Tips on Direct Cost Budgeting 

When: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Speakers:

• Tara McCarthy, Financial Services Manager, Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University of Maine
• Kristin Michel, Senior Pre-Award Program Manager, Notre Dame Research Administration and Compliance, University of Notre Dame
• Vu Phan, Lead Financial Analyst, Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University of Maine

Please note that you must JHU employee to register for free.

This webinar session will be recorded and made available to JHU employees on myLearning.