3.2 Personnel – SmartForm

3.2.1 Program Director/Principal Investigator/Project lead/Fellow:

  1. Principal Investigator: The PI entered in the GCS request will be listed here.
    1. Mentor: Leave this field blank. UNT will not standardly use this field.
    2. Biosketch: If this is a System-to-system (S2S) submission, a Biosketch uploaded to this field will automatically be mapped to your 424 application when the Create/Update 424 activity is performed. It is not a requirement that a Biosketch be uploaded here, however, for S2S submissions it is recommended to include the Biosketch in this field to ensure proper mapping.
    3. Other Support: If this is a System-to-system (S2S) submission, an Other Support file uploaded to this field will automatically be mapped to your 424 application when the Create/Update 424 activity is performed. It is not a requirement that an Other Support file be uploaded here, however, for S2S submissions it is recommended to include the Other Support in this field to ensure proper mapping

3.2.2 Responsible Department/Division/Institute:

2. Responsible department/division/institute: This field will default to the Lead PI’s home department based on the PI identified on the General Proposal Information SmartForm.

3.2.3 Project Personnel:

3. a. Institutional Project Personnel: UNT Personnel on the project should be listed here. All PIs, Co-PIs, CoInvestigators must be listed and identified with the appropriate Role. Additional institutional personnel may also be listed if known, however, it is not required to list additional personnel that are not named in the proposal (e.g., Graduate students who may not be determined yet). Note that personnel added here will be available for selection when developing the proposal budget and will have salary information automatically available for input into the Budget SmartForm. It is recommended that any named UNT Personnel that are intended to be included in the budget should be entered here so their salary data can be easily imported into the budget instead of needing to be manually input.

Click the Add button to add personnel. If you indicated Co-PIs/Co-Investigators in your GCS Request, you will see these individuals have already been added by your GCA Specialist.

Enter the person’s information in the slide-in window.

  1. Staff Member: Search and select personnel. All UNT Persons with a job record should be able to be located and added, as needed.

  2. Project Role: Select appropriate project role based on sponsor guidelines and the chart below. Contact your GCS is you are unsure on which role to select.

  3. Project Role

    Notes

    Co-Investigator

    Use for co-investigators on NIH or NASA proposals, as appropriate.

    Consultant

    Do not use.

    Co-PD/PI

    Department or College administrators that are added to a Funding Proposal and can provide assistance. Administrative Contacts can edit the proposal and can also respond to department review notes.

    Editor

    Use for Co-PIs.

    Faculty

    Use if appropriate. May be used for contributor that is not being named in another Project Role.

    Graduate Student

    Use only if the graduate student is named on the proposal.

    Other Professional

    Use as appropriate. May be used for professional specialist or other contributors that do not fit into another Project Role.

    Post Doctoral

    Use general Post Doctoral role for all post docs.

    Post Doctoral Associate

    Do not use.

    Post Doctoral Scholar

    Do not use.

    Technician

    Use for technicians.

    Undergraduate Student

    Use only if the undergraduate student is named on proposal.

    Secretarial/Clerical

    Use for technicians.

    PD/PI

    Use for multi-PI awards, such as for NIH where Co-PI designation is not used. Should be used for all other PI’s not listed on Personnel question 1.

    Other (Specify)

    Not standardly used. Only use if not captured in the categories above.

  4. This individual is considered an investigator for FCOI disclosure purposes: This will always be marked ‘yes’ in the instance of PI, Co-PIs, and Co-Investigators.

  5. Biosketch: If this is a System-to-system (S2S) submission, a Biosketch uploaded to this field will automatically be mapped to your 424 application if the individual is identified as Senior/Key Personnel or Other Significant Contributor in question 6 below. It is not a requirement that a Biosketch be uploaded here, however, for S2S submissions it is recommended to include the Biosketch in this field to ensure proper mapping.

  6. Current and Pending Support: If this is a System-to-system (S2S) submission, an Other Support file uploaded to this field will automatically be mapped to your 424 application if the individual is identified as Senior/Key Personnel or Other Significant Contributor in question 6 below. It is not a requirement that an Other Support file be uploaded here, however, for S2S submissions it is recommended to include the Other Support in this field to ensure proper mapping.

  7. Individual is: Select if the person is Senior/Key personnel, Other Significant Contributor, or Other Personnel.
    • Senior/Key Personnel: As determined by the RFP and sponsor guidance
    • Other Significant Contributor: NIH term referring to individuals who have committed to contribute to the scientific development or execution of a project but are not committing measurable effort to the project.
    • Other Personnel: Additional personnel on the project who are not key. May include graduate students, secretarial/clerical, other professionals, etc.

2. b. Non-Institutional Project Personnel: If this is a S2S submission, non-UNT personnel (i.e.: PIs/Co-PIs of subawards; Other non-UNT Key Personnel) can be included in this section. If they are included in this section and identified as Senior/Key Personnel or Other Significant Contributor, this information will automatically map to your 424 application when the 424 Update activity is completed. If Senior/Key Personnel are not added in this section, they will need to be entered directly into the RR Key Personnel page of the 424 application instead.

If this is not a S2S submission, non-UNT personnel do not need to be included in this section. This field is optional and not required to be used.

3.2.4 Administrative Personnel:

4.Review this section and add additional personnel as needed. Your GCA Specialist will have added 11 standard departmental and/or college administrators (i.e: Proposal Managers) based on the Lead PI’s departmental unit. You may add additional individuals that have edit/view rights to your Funding Proposal. Clicking on the blue question mark icon will open a Help Text bubble for assistance determining appropriate roles/rights.

3.2.5 Secondary Department/Institute/Center Affiliation

5. The assigned GCA Specialist will have completed this based on information in the GCS Request. Review the information populated is correct. Add any additional affiliations as needed by clicking on the ellipsis button.

3.2.6 Select in which location/lab work will be conducted:

6. Review the information populated is correct or select the ellipsis button to select the Primary Lab/Location where the work will be performed.