Default Approver change request

Default approvers are captured and maintained on AMS by Level 2 support/ Admins. 

The key award approvers are Country Directors, Regional Directors and the Deputy IP Director at the Centre. In addition to this, countries may also have Award Leads (SMT level), and Partner agreement approvers. If any of these named approvers changes, this will not auto-populate correctly until the Centre AMS team update the default approvers list, which is why it is important that such changes are communicated as soon as possible.

User requests a default approver change request

Before contacting the AMS Level 2 support, the user should have requested that the new approver is added to the correct approver permission group; the table below summarises the permission groups and who can grant these permissions:

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Once these permissions have been granted, this can be passed on to the AMS Admins to make the change to the default approver list. Before passing on to Admins, please ensure the following:

• All default approvers need to be part of the SMT. The user will need to confirm this before the change can be made on AMS 

• Users provide written confirmation as evidence to show that there needs to be a change to the default approver e.g. an announcement email confirming the appointment of the new approved

The above confirmation is required for due diligence purposes.