Career and Education

Job Duties: The Sponsored Programs Officer (SPO) functions in a high-level professional capacity to facilitate research and sponsored activity across the university while constantly striving to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of research administration services and to minimize institutional financial and reputational risk. The SPO provides the final institutional review of grant and contract proposals before submission to ensure responsiveness to sponsor requirements, the appropriate application of costing principles, the ethical conduct of project activities, and compliance with government and sponsor regulations and UNC System and ECU policies regardin