Proposal Writer / Manager

Agility Technologies Inc•Reston, VA

27d•$95,000 - $110,000•Remote

About The Position

This role involves managing the successful development of compliant, competitive, and compelling proposals through effective collaboration with stakeholders, corporate officers, consultants, and supporting vendors. The position requires applying experience and best practices in proposal management to ensure the timely delivery of proposal submissions that are fully compliant with solicitation instructions. The Proposal Writer/Manager will lead and analyze RFI, RFQ, RFPs and other bid documents for requirements, and develop the proposal schedule, outline, compliance matrix, and Proposal Development Plan. This role also provides insight, leadership, and work guidance to authors on all proposal content, and takes ownership of the quality of the proposal for reviews and final delivery by performing rigorous quality assurance checks on draft and final documents. The position requires preparing and leading efficient Proposal Kickoff meetings and daily status calls, ensuring activities adhere to the Proposal Development Plan, and conducting activities required to successfully perform reviews and debrief to authors. Additionally, the role manages the development of oral presentations, discussions, and proposal revisions, ensures the high-quality content and appearance of final proposal deliverables, and conducts and documents proposal lessons learned and implements actions to improve process efficiency. Finally, the role coordinates and supports the production, reproduction, binding, and packaging in finalizing the proposal submission and response processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business or communications field, or equivalent professional experience.
Ability to use standard English writing styles to write proposal sections; this includes information research and synthesis from multiple sources (subject matter experts, previous proposals) into a cohesive, easy-to-read, and persuasive final product.
High proficiency in the MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Adobe Acrobat, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

Manage the successful development of compliant, competitive, and compelling proposals through effective collaboration with stakeholders, corporate officers, consultants, and supporting vendors.
Apply experience and best practices in proposal management to ensure the timely delivery of proposal submissions that are fully compliant with solicitation instructions.
Lead and analyze RFI, RFQ, RFPs and other bid documents for requirements.
Develop the proposal schedule, outline, compliance matrix, and Proposal Development Plan.
Provide insight, leadership, and work guidance to authors on all proposal content.
Take ownership of the quality of the proposal for reviews and final delivery by performing rigorous quality assurance checks on draft and final documents.
Prepare and lead efficient Proposal Kickoff meetings and daily status calls, ensuring activities adhere to the Proposal Development Plan.
Conduct activities required to successfully perform reviews and debrief to authors.
Manage the development of oral presentations, discussions, and proposal revisions.
Ensure the high-quality content and appearance of final proposal deliverables.
Conduct and document proposal lessons learned and implement actions to improve process efficiency.
Coordinate and support the production, reproduction, binding, and packaging in finalizing the proposal submission and response processes.