About the role

  • Join Apogee's Corporate team as a Proposal Writer focused on supporting National Air and Space Intelligence Center. Coordinate proposal efforts for DoD and federal contracts.

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 others' 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.

Requirements

  • Must be a US citizen
  • Must have and be able to maintain a Top-Secret level clearance
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Twelve (12) or more years of experience supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and/or other Government agency proposal efforts
  • Top Secret with SCI eligibility (highly preferred)
  • APMP Foundation-level certification or understanding and experience applying Shipley methodology to proposal writing (highly preferred)
  • 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.

Benefits

  • 50% telework flexibility
  • 10% CONUS travel may be required

Job title

Proposal Writer

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$85,000 - $105,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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