Oh. Hooray. (Then it was just the last university where I worked, and, I don’t work there anymore for some reasons.)
Aha. If this is an Approved Project, it’s likely that your tech folks do have a cert that they can give you. Have you asked them? It might take a few tries to find the person who can do that, but I’d think that whoever you interface with on LDAP would know who that person is.