Laurel Peck

• Review, approve and submit grant applications to federal and non-profit foundation sponsors.
• Review and approve incoming grant and subgrant award agreements from federal and non-profit sponsors.
• Review, approve and submit administrative updates such as prior approval requests, and JIT documentation.
• Interpret, communicate and provide detailed advice to faculty and staff regarding proposals, interpretation of rules, regulations and compliance issues, and assist in applying them to specific applications, awards, and issues.
• Know and understand sponsor and University policies.
• Help departmental users to trouble shoot grant-related electronic submission issues for sites such as grants.gov, eRA Commons, Assist, Workspace, Research.gov and others.
• Strive to provide excellent customer service to department staff and faculty.
• Communicate with other Grants Team members to make sure there's always backup, and trying to be a great team member.
• Keep a running log of all application submissions, awards, JITs, workflow, and task orders.
• Workflow awards to SPSS for account setup.

• Assisted faculty, postdocs and graduate students in the Molecular Biology and Genetics department with grant proposal preparation, submission, and budget development, ensuring timeliness and accuracy.
• Reviewed all proposals for accuracy and compliance with sponsor guidelines prior to forwarding to ORA for signature.
• Met with faculty members, postdocs and graduate students to discuss funding opportunities, compliance issues, JHU policies, and budget development.
• Provided information and assistance to complete and submit progress reports and grant closeouts.
• Interacted with Office of Research Administration staff, external research and administrative professionals and contacts at sponsoring institutions on a daily basis regarding proposals and awards.

Assisted tenure track faculty member in Molecular Biology and Genetics Department

• Developed and maintained a filing system, improving document retrieval processes for his office.
• Assisted in preparing reports and presentations, ensuring accuracy and professional appearance.
• Coordinated travel arrangements to conferences and meetings outside JHU.
• Maintained his calendar for meetings and travel.
• Supported him in weekly meetings by preparing agendas, taking minutes, and distributing relevant information.
• Emphasized accuracy and attention to detail with thorough proofreading efforts, ensuring error-free documentation for both internal and external communications.
• Managed phone and email correspondence and handled incoming and outgoing mail and faxes.
• Assisted him with all grant proposals, some of them quite complex (i.e. P01s, P30s, DOD cooperative agreements). I worked with him to draft and maintain grant budgets, communicated with co-investigators at other institutions, edited and proofread the text of the proposals, and routed applications to ORA.

Assisted tenured faculty member in the Anesthesiology Department with administrative tasks, such as:

• Typing, editing, proofreading, and submitting NIH grant applications
• Managing her schedule and calendar
• Sorting, opening, and routing incoming correspondence and deliveries.
• Typing and proofreading all of her correspondence and medical journal manuscripts.
• Setting up and coordinating conference calls and meetings
• Managing her travel to conferences and meetings outside of JHU.
• Developing and maintaining a filing system for her applications, projects, and clinical documents.