ECC has two Effort Coordinator roles, Lead Effort Coordinator (LEC) and Secondary Effort Coordinator (SEC). It is recommended that Departments have at least two LECs but may have multiple LECs and SECs. Each department must designate one LEC to act as Primary Effort Coordinator (PEC). The PEC designation may be changed by any department Effort Coordinator at any time. Unlike SPAR where users can have different roles in different departments, in ECC users may only be an LEC or an SEC for all departments where they have access. Get more information on these roles.
If you have concerns about an effort statement’s presentation or anticipate a SPAR modification to the effort statement, place the effort statement on hold to prevent an inappropriate certification. An effort statement can only be certified twice, please use them judiciously. The PI certification window is not extended for time spent on hold, therefore, please remove the hold as soon as possible. PIs whose personal effort statement is on hold will not be able to certify any effort statement for which they are responsible. When the hold is removed, the PEC and all associated PIs will receive a system generated email.
Monthly payroll distribution data is downloaded to ECC overnight between the third and fourth working days of each month. Additional time is required by ECC to download and process this large volume of data. Users may receive the following message when logging into ECC. The system will be available again when processing is completed, usually by noon.