Karen Alameddine, Director, Proposals & Award Management

 Karen Alameddine, BSA, CRA, brings her strong working relationships with colleagues throughout the University of Michigan to this position, along with her breadth of knowledge of federal regulations,
U-M policies and procedures, and ORSP business processes.

Prior to her career in research administration, Karen earned her BSA in Finance and held a leadership role managing multiple teams in the information technology field.

Karen has attained 11 years of research administration experience, working in both pre- and post-award roles. She began at the UM-Dearborn campus and after moving to ORSP in 2015, she progressively advanced to her most recent role as Managing Project Representative of the government sponsors and pre-award teams. Karen has worked on numerous committees and has led initiatives to streamline workflow and processes:

• Co-chaired the committee to automate our post-award change request (ACR) processes for electronic approval routing and capturing required documentation,
• Restructured the Government Team into Maize and Blue Teams to improve efficiency through specialization, and 
• Participated on the team that developed and launched a Workload Benchmarking Survey to collect data from Big 10 universities to help justify our request for additional staff.

Karen will report to Andrea Anderson, Executive Director, Sponsored Projects. 

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