Information Functions

• Keep the staff in charge informed about the policies, regulations, decisions, rules, and general procedures of the University, emphasizing those that are directly related to their functions and responsibilities.
• Maintain permanent communication flows that allow adequate information and knowledge throughout the University Community and its environment, of the services offered by the Unit.
• Keep your immediate boss informed about the operation of the

Unity, in accordance with the policies, regulations, decisions, rules, and general procedures of the University.

Support Functions

• Support programs of institutional interest that require the initiative and management capacity of different Units, for the achievement of their objectives and goals of institutional management.
• Participate in the design, orientation, and development of policies, objectives, goals, and strategies for the operation and institutional action.

Specific Functions

• Implement in the respective Faculty strategies and programs that guide and promote the quality and relevance of research and extension activities.
• Design and execute strategies for the growth and consolidation of research groups and teams that carry out extension work in the Faculty.
• Articulate the academic capabilities of its Faculty to the external demands of advisory services, consulting, scientific research, technological development, and innovation.
• Manage, monitor, and evaluate research projects with internal funding of the respective Faculty and submit periodic reports to the Dean of the Faculty and the Vice-Rector for Research and Extension.
• Carry out adequate dissemination of the research and extension activity of the Faculty.
• Advise the teachers and students of the Faculty in the presentation of research proposals.

Responsibilities:

Expenditure Management and Value Management:

Responsible for the management of expenditures of the unit’s budgetary funds. Expenditure authorizing officers are responsible disciplinarily, fiscally, and criminally for failing to comply with the provisions of the UIS Budget Statute.

Custody and Management of Tangible Assets:

Responsible for the custody and proper use of the movable property under his charge and all other elements used for the proper functioning of his Unit.

Custody and Management of Intangible Assets and Records in Institutional Systems:

Responsible for intangible assets, such as specialized software, inside information, registrations, patents, and intellectual production of researchers placed under its custody for respective procedures; recorded in the inventory delivered for use and correct use

administration of the information manipulated in the exercise of its work.

Responsible for the records made in the Institutional Information Systems corresponding to its Unit, according to the procedures established by the University.

Safety, Occupational Health, Environment, and Quality:

Responsible for complying with the Safety, Occupational Health, Environment, and Quality policies and procedures approved by the University, and for reporting and verifying their compliance by third parties (visitors or contractors under their supervision).