Researcher Toolbox
Select a quick link below to initiate a task, or contact your assigned Award Management Services team member for assistance with an AMS-supported task. For in-depth information on compliance, hiring or purchasing, choose an interest area under additional resources. Be sure to bookmark this page.
Quick links
AMS-supported tasks
Find your AMS staff support person.
Award actions:
- Additional time and funds
- Budget adjustment
- Contract modification/amendment
- Provisional request
- Subaward setup (after the fact)
- Subaward monitoring
- Time extension requests
Award transactions:
- Budget reports setup and updates
- Cost share management
- Cost transfer
- Expense approval for allowability and allocability
- Spendable balance review
- Sponsor financial reporting
- Travel approval for allowability and allocability
Payroll & effort:
- Course buyout
- Effort pre-certification for projects, PIs and staff
- Employee funding changes
- Employee payroll confirmation
- GRA, temporary and student hourly appointments
- Overloads
- Pool ID and combination code setup
- Retroactive funding adjustments (RFA)
- Salary release
- Summer salary
Student & participant payments:
- Clincard-Greenphire payments
- Fellowships
- Participant payments
- Scholarships
- Tuition sponsorships
What is Award Management Services?
Award Management Services conducts the day-to-day post-award research administration activities for the University of Kansas. By working directly with PIs, co-PIs, program staff and sponsoring agencies, AMS provides seamless, consistent service while reducing administrative burden to allow research to be your top priority.
With expertise in areas of post-award best practices and KU grant systems, policies and processes, AMS delivers accurate and timely information to make decisions and ensure efficient transaction processing. Additionally, AMS reviews each research purchase and project action for allowability and allocability to verify that all awards remain in compliance with federal, state and local agencies.
AMS was created in 2021 and is comprised of approximately 50 specially trained and dedicated grant managers, officers and coordinators across five interdisciplinary teams. AMS and the Office of Research are committed to continued growth and open dialogue.