Careerprise contractor

A Careerprise contractor (hereinafter, the Contractor) is any contractor, either an independent contractor or organization, whom the Friends Of CNM (hereinafter, the Group) hires to design, build, or deliver career services. The Contractor usually designs, develops, and/or delivers services to the Group. The Group also can purchase Contractor's services in order to deliver them to the Group's patrons.

Contractors

With the exception of the Communications, Documents, Meetings, and Records, the Coords rarely develop and manage the Project deliverables directly or, or least, without someone else's assistance. For the most part, contractors develop and service them. The contractors perform on the basis of approved descriptions, Funded demands, and finalized by the Coors and/or other members of CNMCyber Team. The Coords facilitate the Hiring the contractors and Working with contractors activities.

List of contractors

The list of contractors is a part of the competency register created and updated during the Studying the backgrounds activities.

Payment models

• Fixed-price basis (in recruiting, known as contingency model). When either acceptance criteria or standing operating procedure (SOP) is available, Cyber contractors are paid a fixed price. This price might be chunked in several payments and some payments may be made in advance. This model assumes that all of the three, "scope of work, terms, budget" are well defined. Otherwise, CNMCyber Team risks to receive not what it needs, or not for the budgeted money, or when it no longer needs it.
• Per-hour basis (in recruiting, known as retained model). When neither acceptance criteria nor standing operating procedure (SOP) is available, Cyber contractors are paid per hour. Architects, consultants, designers, managers, and others whose jobs are not structured shall be hired on the per-hour basis.

Those two models may be combined. For instance, compensation of agents, brokers, and sales representatives may consist of (a) payment for their time (sometimes, called a retainer) and (b) percentage of generated sales.

Restrictions in awards

To ensure diversity of contractors and, therefore, higher quality:

1. No new contract can be awarded to the service contractor who serves the product currently.
2. The development contractor cannot also be the first service contractor.
3. Although the Coords are encouraged to serve as contractors outside of their Coord work, no one can simultaneously serve as the Coord and contractor working on the same product.

Types of contractors

For the purposes of this very wikipage, contractors are distinguished in three types:

• Developers or development contractors create Project deliverables based on their acceptance criteria to be commissioned as Cyber products or their parts. The developers are routinely paid on the fixed-price basis for their performance; perspective developers shall be invited to volunteer to draft project charter, product specifications, project scope statement, acceptance criteria, as well as other project documents.
• On-call specialists provide the Coordinators with their expertise at any stage of product imagination, creation, commissioning, and productive life when their expertise is needed before either acceptance criteria or standing operating procedure (SOP) is available. On-call specialists are normally paid per hour.
• Servicers or service contractors serve CNMCyber products based on their standing operating procedures (SOPs). The servicers are routinely paid on the fixed-price basis for their performance; perspective servicers shall be invited to volunteer to clarify their SOPs, as well as other product documents.

Contractor agreements

CNMCyber Team uses Careerprise contractor agreements to hire its contractors directly; hereinafter, they are called the Contracts. A blueprint of the Contract is published on the Careerprise contractor agreement wikipage.

Some portion of contractors is hired through freelance marketplaces such as Upwork; their blueprints are used in that case.

Content matters

Any contract's content features at least two major matters:

1. Subject matters is what essentially the parties of the Contract are going to exchange. More specifically, they consist of two parts:
   • Funded demands is what CNMCyber Customer would like to exchange its funds for. Usually, the demands include requirements to the deliverable, its production, and delivery.
   • Payment provisions that define what the contractor shall expect to be paid when the Funded demands are satisfied.
2. Legal matters include legal provisions such as legal names, dates, statuses, ownership, representation, indemnification, confidentiality, communications, dispute-resolution procedures, warranties, and miscellaneous ones.

Funded demands

For the purposes of this very wikipage, funded demands refer to those demands of CNMCyber Team that are funded by CNMCyber Customer. CNMCyber Team hires contractors to satisfy specific business needs when CNMCyber Customer agrees to fund such hiring. Before they enter the Contract or third-party contracts, these funded demands can be stated in a project charter and/or request for proposal (RFP). For fixed-priced contracts, it can be stated in one of the following two:

• Acceptance criteria. A combination of those demands that a deliverable must satisfy to be acceptable by CNMCyber Customer.
• Standing operating procedure (SOP). A set of instructions that cover both (a) regular business and/or technology operations and (b) actions in emergencies. SOP is applicable unless ordered otherwise.

For hourly-paid contracts the demand statement tends to be less concrete; at those cases, CNMCyber Team "buys" contractor's time, not a particular deliverable, its production, or delivery.

Bizopps

Main wikipage: Careerprise bizopp

Contested projects

The fixed-price compensation is fully negotiable. When you propose to build online services for Career Network Ministry's patrons, you are supposed to describe what you can do and name your budget and schedule. We agree or disagree. As an independent contractor, the incumbent of this role may:

1. Lead new development;
2. Oversee development of new services for Career Network Ministry's patrons;
3. Serve as a liaison between Friends Of CNM and industry partners;

Everyone is welcome to develop products, services, or results of Friends Of CNM as a contractor. To be considered, please state:

1. What deliverable you are going to create and offer Friends Of CNM to purchase. These deliverables could be anything valuable, measurable and describable related to the sourcing of fellow candidates or serving of the selected fellows. Friends Of CNM will consider any deliverable you may offer them to purchase as a result of your project. Especially, Friends Of CNM would like to pay for anything that would help to attract more people enrolled in EmployableU Concepts. If you envision what it should be, they can finance, mentor, etc. If you cannot, this job offer cannot be relevant to you. Do you feel like Friends Of CNM should do anything differently? Are you able to do that on your own if Friends Of CNM would pay for that? State what you can create, delete, or modify. You are welcome to explore the deliverable wikipage to learn more what that deliverable can be;
2. The dollar amount of the financial award and any other support, which is sought.

Friends Of CNM plans to award up to $200 every week in the open awarding process. The contractors are assigned sponsors as points-of-contact of Friends Of CNM.

Conference

Main wikipage: Careerprise conference

See also

Related lectures

• Careerprise BizOpps.