Bachelor's degree in a business-related field (e.g., Marketing, Business, English, Journalism, Communications) with 5 years' experience.
Related experience in proposal preparation and management.
Experience in support of preparing formal responses to federal customer requests.
May be required to manage one employee and potentially more as the team grows.
Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and projects while working independently in a fast-paced environment.
Must possess professional written and verbal communication skills, to include the ability to generate technical documents, and to effectively coordinate with various levels of management, project managers, technical personnel and client organizations; and must have the superior analytical skills to respond to RFP requirements in detail.
Extensive understanding of capture plans and proposal processes, primarily with federal government customers.
Familiarity with various contract types such a firm fixed-price, cost plus, fixed fee, and time and material.
Must be extremely detail-oriented and organized with high ability to multi-task, while maintaining a high-level of accuracy in a high-pressure, high-output, deadline-oriented environment.
Ability to manage time, company resources, and personnel to deliver timely responses.
Ability to maintain consistent positive and proactive attitude.
High proficiency in business and technical writing, editing, and proofreading.
Ability to organize material and complete writing assignments according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
Demonstrated ability to translate complicated ideas into language easily understood by others.
Excellent communication skills-both verbal and written-and strong interpersonal skills as daily interaction with all levels of personnel-including field and management-will be required.
Ability to handle and use constructive feedback in order to make needed changes to documents and proposals. Ability to provide constructive feedback to others.
Self-starter and be able to work independently with minimal supervision and broad direction.
Ability to work in a small, fast-paced, global organization that provides strategic communications involving information operations, media, and creative services
Advanced user of Microsoft Office Suite 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, Sharepoint, etc.)
Previous experience using Microsoft SharePoint as a collaboration and document management platform highly desirable.
Certified proposal training from Shipley Associates or another similar professional organization is desirable.