Salary
💰 $85,000 - $110,000 per year
About the role
- Work with the Proposal Manager to establish and meet all proposal related milestones
- Coordinate with the Business Development Team, Capture Managers, Program Managers, and SMEs to gather technical input and transform it into clear, compelling proposal content
- Develop compliant, persuasive proposal responses to federal solicitations (RFPs, RFQs, RFIs) that clearly articulate the company’s technical, management, and past performance capabilities
- Draft, edit, and finalize sections including executive summaries, technical/management volumes, staffing plans, and past performance write-ups
- Drafts win themes, translates capture and competitive intelligence into proposal content
- Works with the Graphic Design Team to translate text and concepts into proposal visuals
- Supports the Proposal Manager in coordinating the proposal lifecycle from kickoff through final submission, including facilitating color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold) and incorporating evaluator-focused feedback
- Maintain a repository of reusable proposal content, templates, graphics, and boilerplate language to streamline proposal development
- Ensure all proposal submissions are error-free, compliant, and delivered on time via government submission portals or other required methods
- Support oral proposal preparation and presentation development, as required by the solicitation
- Track proposal outcomes and integrate lessons learned into continuous improvement of proposal processes and quality
- Stays current on proposal writing best practices, acquisition trends, AI technologies, procurement strategies, and federal contracting best practices to enhance the competitiveness of future submissions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 8 total years of professional experience
- 5 years of experience working as a proposal writer responding to Federal Government solicitations with $50M+ valuation
- Evidence of a successful track record of high quality, high scoring proposals
- Demonstrated success writing and leading technical, management, transition, staffing, and/or corporate experience & past performance volumes for complex efforts
- In-depth understanding of compliance with all sections of governmental RFPs
- Experience analyzing RFPs, creating annotated outlines, writing new material, editing written material, and producing high-quality proposals under tight deadlines
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Highly developed word processing skills, especially with Microsoft Office products
- Working knowledge of graphics and desktop publishing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Working knowledge of Sharepoint or other proposal collaboration tools
- Flexible and open to changing schedules and priorities and managing multiple tasks simultaneously within compressed timeframes
- Able and willing to work extended hours to meet dynamic and shifting requirements and proposal deadlines