External organization profiles in GMAS are profiles of any non-Harvard organizations that have been in the role of sponsor, prime sponsor, or subagreement on Harvard sponsored projects.  These organizations can be added by users, and are reviewed and activated by the Pre-Award Operations team within the Office for Sponsored Programs. For more information about the new organization activation process, please see the...

The Initial and Competing renewal budgets in GMAS provide a high-level summary of the proposed budget that has been/is being submitted to the sponsor. This job aid provides guidance on how to record the high-level budget information in GMAS initial and competing renewal proposals. The following sections are covered in this documentation:

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Adding interfaculty involvements to a project in GMAS helps to identify PIs that the owning PI will be cross collaborating with internally and helps to give the correct administrative contacts appropriate access to the project. This job aid will cover the steps to add interfaculty involvement, and review what access is provided when interfaculty involvement PIs and department administrators are associated to the project.

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Financial deliverables are the Invoices, Financial Reports, and Reviews that are scheduled by Research Finance in the Office for Sponsored Programs for each awarded project (segment). Each deliverable has their own screen that provides detailed information about that specific deliverable. This job aid will review all of the different sections of a financial deliverable.

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This job aid assumes that the reader has an understanding of the basic functionality...

The Financial Deliverable Dashboard provides visibility into all of the Invoices, Financial Reports, and Reviews that are ready to be worked on, or are being worked on by Research Finance in OSP. The dashboard is broken out into tabs by deliverable status. This job aid will review the different tabs and what information is available.

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This job aid provides information about the top fields central reviewers look at when reviewing Initial Proposals and Competing Renewals in GMAS. Please note that this is not a full list of information that central reviewers are responsible for looking at.

This job aid assumes that the reader has knowledge about the proposal homepage. For an overview of the proposal homepage, please refer to the "...

This job aid provides an overview of why entering GL budgets is important, who can do it, how to do it, and what to do if there is a GL budget posting failure.

Starting December 19, 2016, the GMAS homepage will be upgraded to match the new GMAS look and feel. Along with conversion, there are some minor changes to the homepage. Those changes are highlighted in this crosswalk document.

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