Who we are and what we do

The Project Management Office (PMO) is a research operations department in the Knowledge Enterprise. PMO staff work closely with faculty, staff, and other stakeholders on complex projects across a range of scales in pre-and post-award phases.

When supporting a PI, our goal is to remove the administrative burden and allow the PI to focus on the subject matter or science. This support may include establishing, tracking, and managing project scope, schedule, and budget; preparing and maintaining project documentation and status reports for the sponsor; and building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.

The PMO supports projects throughout the project lifecycle. The graphic below demonstrates how the traditional project lifecycle maps against the proposal/project lifecycle in the university environment: