Lead Proposal Writer

Apogee Engineering•Beavercreek, OH

3d•$85,000 - $105,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a Proposal Writer to join the Corporate team focused on opportunities to support the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) ! In this role, you will coordinate proposal efforts for DoD and federal contracts while also playing a key role in capture, business development (BD), and pipeline management. This is a high-impact role that requires strong technical writing skills, organizational abilities, and a deep understanding of the federal procurement process. This is a full-time position located at the Beavercreek, Ohio, corporate office, with up to 50% telework flexibility.

Requirements

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain a Top-Secret level clearance
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Years of Experience: Twelve (12) or more years of experience supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and/or other Government agency proposal efforts

Nice To Haves

Clearance: Top Secret with SCI eligibility
Certifications: APMP Foundation-level certification or understanding and experience applying Shipley methodology to proposal writing - (highly preferred)
Additional Experience: Outstanding organizational skills with the ability to manage and execute multiple tasks efficiently
Proven ability to work independently and consistently meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Skilled in tailoring resumes and crafting impactful qualification summaries to align with specific job requirements and industry expectations
Meticulous attention to detail, paired with the ability to adapt seamlessly to change
Skilled at collaborating effectively with managers, technical SMEs across cross-functional teams
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Adobe Acrobat

Responsibilities

Lead Advisory Support and Technical Requirements Administration (ASTRA) Proposal Writing, including ensuring quality product development
Collaborate with other Proposal and Growth Team leadership to promote best practices and refine proposal writing processes and procedures
Support the development of Request for Information/ Proposal (RFI/RFP) responses
Collaborate with Operations Team leadership to plan, facilitate, and execute Writers on Worksite (WOW) and other sessions
Work with the Growth Team to update and maintain Past Performance repository
Author all sections of a solicitation (Management, Technical, Past Performance/Corporate Experience, and Resumes)
Conduct technical edits of other’s work
Participate as an author and reviewer in design sessions, working sessions, and color reviews to provide critical feedback to others and accept critiques of your own work to improve responses
Create compliant, responsive, and compelling documents to answer Government solicitations, including white papers, sources sought, Requests for Information (RFI), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs), with minimal guidance
Collaborate with proposal team members such as the proposal manager, capture manager, and graphic artist to design a compliant and compelling proposal solution, outline, and response
Collaborate with operations team members, project managers, and Subject Matter Experts (SME) and actively participate in the overall solutioning process
Extract information from SMEs across a variety of highly technical subjects to meet the requirements of the solicitation, and put together a cohesive technical response (This ability includes interviewing, creating, compiling, and analyzing electronic data calls, and data mining from existing material)
Analyze and extract requirements from RFP and other solicitation documents such as Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOW), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) to ensure compliance
Creatively connect Apogee’s past experience with new approaches in order to effectively address customer requirements or hot buttons
Act as a volume lead and assign deadlines, review work, and be responsible for the overall content submitted by other authors
Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information during meetings
Maintain quality results by using templates and following proposal-writing standards, including readability, consistency, and tone
Improve proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and boilerplate information. Implement improvements during future efforts