These areas are used to improve program leadership and management, allocate resources, and evaluate success.
Goals
- Develop NIFA’s Strategic Plan
- Promote and support strategic planning at the portfolio and program level
- Lead annual internal assessments of program portfolios and external assessments every five years
- Partner with the Budget Office to develop the performance sections of the agency budget
- Support administration performance initiatives implemented by the White House Office of Management and Budget
- Provide leadership in competitive, non-competitive, and capacity grant reporting
- Review multi-state research projects
- Ensure Bayh-Dole Act compliance and intellectual property reporting
- Maintain the classification system for NIFA grants
- Manage the business process for NIFA Reporting systems, including: