Senior Proposal Analyst
About The Position
The Senior Proposal Analyst provides analytical, compliance, and content-integration leadership across federal proposal efforts, supporting pursuits from RFP release through submission. This role combines deep understanding of solicitation requirements with hands-on proposal development experience to ensure responses are compliant, well-structured, evaluator-focused, and on schedule. The Senior Proposal Analyst serves as a key execution partner to the Proposal Manager—owning compliance artifacts, contributing to narrative development, managing cross-volume consistency, and ensuring proposal content aligns to evaluation criteria and win strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, English, Political Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience supporting federal proposal development in a GovCon environment.
- Demonstrated experience with proposal compliance, Section L/M analysis, and requirement traceability.
- Strong analytical, writing, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DoD, DOJ, DHS, HHS, or other federal civilian agency proposals.
- Familiarity with FAR/DFARS-based procurements, IDIQs, and task-order competitions.
- Experience supporting large, multi-volume proposals and accelerated response timelines.
- Prior experience acting as a lead analyst or deputy proposal manager.
Responsibilities
- Analyze solicitation documents (RFPs, RFQs, RTOPs, RFIs), with emphasis on Sections L and M or agency-specific equivalents.
- Develop and maintain compliance matrices, annotated outlines, and requirement traceability tools.
- Identify compliance risks, gaps, and ambiguities and elevate them to proposal leadership.
- Support interpretation of evaluation criteria and ensure proposal content is explicitly aligned.
- Contribute to writing and editing of proposal sections, including technical, management, staffing, transition, and past performance narratives, as assigned.
- Translate capture strategy and win themes into evaluator-focused structure and messaging.
- Ensure consistency in terminology, tone, and positioning across volumes and contributors.
- Support integration of graphics, tables, and call-outs to reinforce key messages.
- Support the Proposal Manager with proposal schedules, trackers, and daily execution oversight.
- Coordinate inputs from writers, SMEs, volume leads, pricing, and contracts teams.
- Track progress against deadlines and follow up on assigned actions and deliverables.
- Support planning and execution of color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), including preparation of review materials.
- Log, track, and help adjudicate review comments to ensure timely and accurate resolution.
- Perform quality checks for completeness, clarity, consistency, and responsiveness prior to final submission.
- Contribute to maintenance of proposal templates, checklists, and standard operating procedures.
- Support development and curation of reusable proposal content and lessons learned.
- Mentor junior proposal staff and support proposal process maturity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
