{"id":6964,"date":"2024-02-01T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:23:07","slug":"strategies-for-preventing-staffing-problems-mid-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/grants-management\/strategies-for-preventing-staffing-problems-mid-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for Preventing Staffing Problems Mid-Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the biggest grant management challenges facing awardees comes when staffing changeover occurs mid-grant.&nbsp; Every position fills a vital role and holds an integral piece to the puzzle.&nbsp; When working under a grant, compliance is high-stakes and the accurate transfer of information is vital so nothing gets lost or misreported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no way around it, especially when it comes to multi-year grant management: the team you started with will not be the team you finish with.&nbsp; But that\u2019s okay so long as your organization employs strategies to address this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, use discretion when assigning roles from the beginning.&nbsp; When looking for key leaders and those who will be responsible for supervision, training, and information management that spans the entire term of the grant, be picky and be honest.&nbsp; While there a will be changeover throughout the course of the project, do everything you can to make sure that key leadership roles stay consistent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While you don\u2019t want to duplicate work or responsibilities, you also don\u2019t want to end up in a situation where only one person is privy any vital part of the project.&nbsp; There are many reasons that someone may leave a project suddenly, and that\u2019s why you need a contingency plan in case of emergency.&nbsp; Structure responsibilities so that no one person can leave the project and take a big chunk of it with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be detailed when creating manuals for positions, technology, methodologies and processes, and data reporting at the beginning.&nbsp; That way, if a position needs to be filled, training is streamlined and new hires can be brought up to speed.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If possible, fill central positions through promoting someone already working on the project who is familiar with the information, the project, the personalities and the workflow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest grant management challenges facing awardees comes when staffing changeover occurs mid-grant.&nbsp; Every position fills a vital role and holds an integral piece to the puzzle.&nbsp; When working under a grant, compliance is high-stakes and the accurate transfer of information is vital so nothing gets lost or misreported. There is no way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[8,11,40,9,10,37],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grants-management","tag-grantpro","tag-gpa","tag-grant-management","tag-grant-professional","tag-grant-professionals-association","tag-grant-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}