Technical Writer

INDRA AIR TRAFFIC INC•Overland Park, KS

About The Position

Responsibilities: Develop and edit technical proposal documents that align with prospective customer’s technical requirements and business goals. Work with the sales team, technical subject matter experts (SMEs) and project delivery and operations personnel to develop clear, organized, compliant, and easy-to-read technical proposal content. Develop basic understanding of our solutions and market (“domain knowledge”) to be able to process technical information and generate content independently and/or in collaboration with SMEs. Read the request for proposals (RFP) and work with the sales lead and bid manager to determine the technical proposal concept and structure/ organization by analyzing customer requirements and needs, and RFP compliance limitations. Work with the sales lead and bid manager to meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information collection, writing, review, and approvals. Identify and synthesize existing source material and pre-write as much as possible by adapting “boilerplate” text, prior to turning each section or document deliverable over to SMEs for adding/completing content. Identify the need for and conceptualize infographics, then assign to relevant to SMEs. Continuously track content created by the assigned SMEs for RFP compliance, quality, and consistency between sections; collaborate with SMEs on getting each section (text and infographics) updated and completed. Incorporate edits in response reviewer comments while updating/improving content with SMEs. Format, align and edit the technical proposal document(s) for compliance, cohesive flow, logical organization, as well as other professional writing standards, including readability, grammar/punctuation, style, consistency, and tone. Contribute technical proposal status information to status review meetings. Ensure that content includes the win theme, discriminators, technical/management features and benefits. Prepare the technical proposal document and auxiliary document deliverables for production. Help Bid Manager with production (digital and sometimes print). Help continuously improve content quality and proposal efficiency by using/updating templates and the style guide and maintaining proposal content (text/infographics) databases. Qualifications: Technical Writing Degree or Similar Preferred 3+ years of experience in Technical Writing in information technology, systems integration, or engineering. Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Word. Good organizational and collaborative skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines. U.S. citizen and U.S.-based. Samples of work required. Simple writing test may be required.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in Technical Writing in information technology, systems integration, or engineering.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Word.
Good organizational and collaborative skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines.
U.S. citizen and U.S.-based.
Samples of work required.
Simple writing test may be required.

Nice To Haves

Technical Writing Degree or Similar Preferred

Responsibilities

Develop and edit technical proposal documents that align with prospective customer’s technical requirements and business goals.
Work with the sales team, technical subject matter experts (SMEs) and project delivery and operations personnel to develop clear, organized, compliant, and easy-to-read technical proposal content.
Develop basic understanding of our solutions and market (“domain knowledge”) to be able to process technical information and generate content independently and/or in collaboration with SMEs.
Read the request for proposals (RFP) and work with the sales lead and bid manager to determine the technical proposal concept and structure/ organization by analyzing customer requirements and needs, and RFP compliance limitations.
Work with the sales lead and bid manager to meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information collection, writing, review, and approvals.
Identify and synthesize existing source material and pre-write as much as possible by adapting “boilerplate” text, prior to turning each section or document deliverable over to SMEs for adding/completing content.
Identify the need for and conceptualize infographics, then assign to relevant to SMEs.
Continuously track content created by the assigned SMEs for RFP compliance, quality, and consistency between sections; collaborate with SMEs on getting each section (text and infographics) updated and completed.
Incorporate edits in response reviewer comments while updating/improving content with SMEs.
Format, align and edit the technical proposal document(s) for compliance, cohesive flow, logical organization, as well as other professional writing standards, including readability, grammar/punctuation, style, consistency, and tone.
Contribute technical proposal status information to status review meetings.
Ensure that content includes the win theme, discriminators, technical/management features and benefits.
Prepare the technical proposal document and auxiliary document deliverables for production.
Help Bid Manager with production (digital and sometimes print).
Help continuously improve content quality and proposal efficiency by using/updating templates and the style guide and maintaining proposal content (text/infographics) databases.