PI Grant Proposal Agreement

The Office of Research & Scholarship supports research and scholarly efforts across SoE.

When you collaborate with our team, we agree to:

• Provide a checklist of proposal requirements – Research Administrator (RA)
• Create key milestone deadlines for proposal components such as budget, editing, final documents, and submission – Editors (Ed), RA
• Assist with budget and document creation; provide examples and templates of materials when available – RA, Ed
• Coordinate with subawardee institutions to collect needed documents – RA
• Edit and provide comments on your narrative and other text-heavy portions of your proposal – Ed
• Upload documents and budgets to the sponsor portal and campus system – RA
• Review the submission and assist with error corrections – Ed, RA
• Route the proposal to the School of Education and RSP for submission – RA
• Verify submission to funder – RA

When we collaborate with you, you agree to:

• Read the current, accurate call for proposals for your submission
• Review the checklist provided to you by WCER to ensure you address proposal requirements
• Deliver all materials by agreed-upon deadlines
• Supply correct versions of documents and clearly mark final versions
• Give editors documents at required page limits
• Provide reviewer comments to editors when available
• Review and accept editorial changes
• Notify WCER of substantive changes such as updated documents, title changes, and budget updates as soon as possible but no later than a week before final submission
• Communicate your needs and plans – if you will not be able to meet a deadline or will not be submitting, let Research Admin and Editor teams know as soon as possible
• Review compiled submission for complete and correct versions of documents
• Send administrative approval of final submission to research administrator
• Certify records and complete PI portions of submissions

Only you and your team can address the following:

• Issues in the science
• Missing references and citation errors
• Missing letters of support
• Incorrect tables
• Incorrect information on personnel documents
• Correct versions of documents

Please also refer to the RSP guidance on roles and responsibilities at https://rsp.wisc.edu/policies/staffroles.cfm.