Please be aware that the Thanksgiving holiday will create additional challenges this certification period! Write-Off day is Wednesday, December 1st, the third working day after the Thanksgiving Holiday. Look for an email detailing critical certification period dates in the beginning of November.
We highly recommend utilizing the PI Worklist-Effort Coordinator report in ECC throughout the certification period to monitor uncertified effort. The report lists all uncertified sponsored-federal effort for which the grant department is within your area of responsibility and identifies the PI responsible to certify. Learn about this report and other tools to monitor uncertified effort in our “Uncertified Effort and Write-Offs” training available on our website.
Prospective changes to payroll distribution for hourly employees are done through the Pitt Worx TEAM form. Retroactive distribution changes to hourly pay are accomplished through the Salary Wage Cost Transfer (SWCT) form submitted to the Financial Records Services department.
Proxy requests for student employees (Pre-Docs, Post-Docs, Trainees) who are named the PI of a training grant should include the student’s mentor as the Proxy and indicate the end date of the training award. Approved requests will establish the Proxy relationship through the end date of the award making it unnecessary for subsequent requests for each academic period.