Specifications include, but are not limited to:The City is seeking an experienced full-time, on-site, dedicated CPM, with expertise in enterprise financial system implementation, to manage the implementation of a new city-wide ERP System and serve as the advisor to the Project Leader and Executive Steering Committee of the project. The Project Leader will work closely with the CPM coordinating City decision-making, change management processes and interfacing with the ERP Implementation Steering Committee. The ERP Implementation Steering Committee is composed of six (6) members: Tracey Dunlap, Deputy City Manager, Project Sponsor Michael Olson, Finance & Administration Director James Lopez, Human Resources Director Brenda Cooper, CIO Karen Mast, IT Manager – Enterprise Applications and Lyanne Ma, Sr. Applications Analyst/Programmer. The professional services of the ERP Client Project Manager to be provided are organized into four phases with the CPM responsible for providing services throughout the four phases. The four phases are described below. Services to be provided by the CPM include may also include additional items as identified by the final Scope of Work as determined by the City during contract negotiations. City reserves the right to modify the Scope of Work and services provided by the Service Provider. Providing the Project Leader and ERP Implementation Steering Committee with an independent, unbiased view on the status and progress of the project; Directing both the implementation vendor and City implementation team to take action to ensure the contract objectives are met and the project completes on time and within budget; Validating the implementation vendor’s project management plan, as well as any additional component parts or plans developed by the vendor and/or City implementation team Creating an overall project schedule for the City implementation team that synchronizes with the implementation vendor project schedule and milestones and recommending changes to the Project Leader and ERP Implementation Steering Committee as necessary; Managing execution of the project plan by both the implementation vendor and the City; identifying risks and issues with the implementation project and presenting these and recommended actions to the Project Leader and ERP Implementation Steering Committee; Reporting project status, project schedule progress and completion of project milestones, independent of the implementation vendor, to the Project Leader and ERP Implementation Steering Committee; Assuring project budget and expenditures are properly accounted for and reported Identifying all issues that arise that are outside scope of adopted plan, communicating to appropriate parties and assuring prompt decision-making and resolution; Managing all aspects of the finalized City Scope of Work between the chosen implementation firm and the City, including but not limited to the scope of work, installation plan, configuration plan, issues log, risk log, change control
