OSC Edge

Senior Federal Proposal Manager

OSC Edge

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Manassas • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Leads proposal efforts for large and strategic federal opportunities (e.g., IDIQs, GWACs, task orders, and competitive RFPs)
  • Manages the proposal lifecycle
  • Develops and manage proposal schedules, compliance matrices, outlines, and storyboards
  • Partners with managers, business development, pricing, and technical teams to develop win strategies and value propositions
  • Facilitates solutioning and strategy sessions to align technical and management approaches with customer needs
  • Leads writing, editing, and integration of proposal sections to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality
  • Coordinates and mentor's contributors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and volume leads
  • Oversees production and submission (electronic or hardcopy), ensuring compliance with all RFP instructions
  • Conducts compliance checks, color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), and quality assurance reviews
  • Ensures adherence to corporate branding, formatting, and style guidelines
  • Maintains version control and document management best practices
  • Contributes continuous improvement of proposal management processes, templates, and tools
  • Shares lessons learned and best practices across the organization
  • As needed, this position may create top-level technical and management win strategies (value proposition, win themes, messaging, etc.)
  • Performs other tasks as required by the OSC office

Requirements

  • Bachelors degree in English, Business, Communications, or a related field
  • 7 or more years of direct experience managing federal proposals, including complex prime submissions
  • Proven success managing proposals or multi-volume IDIQ vehicles
  • Strong understanding of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and agency procurement processes (DoD, DHS, GSA, etc.)
  • Demonstrated expertise in Shipley or similar proposal methodologies
  • Excellent project management, leadership, writing, and editing skills
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, and collaboration tools (SharePoint, Teams, etc.)
  • Ability to manage multiple efforts at one time
  • Expertise in full cycle proposal/contract writing (RFP release, submittal and contract award)
  • Prior experience with Federal Government Proposal responses (RFPs)
  • Excellent written communication, coordination and presentation skills
  • Must be able to work collaboratively with others
  • Ability put together content into a compliant proposal
  • Technical Documentation and Layout Skills are required
  • Ability to make sound business decisions
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Benefits
  • Medical/ Dental/ Vision
  • Life insurance and AD&D
  • Flexible Spending
  • Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity coverage
  • 401(k) and ROTH retirement options and company match
  • Pet Insurance
  • Identify Theft and Fraud Protection coverage

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
proposal managementproject managementwritingeditingcompliance checkstechnical documentationfull cycle proposal writingversion controlquality assuranceprocess improvement
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationcoordinationdecision makingtime managementproblem solvingmentoringstrategic thinkingadaptability