Proposal Writer

Leading with our people, the Digital Consultants' mission is to deliver the highest level of professional solutions while being a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. With a culture of practicality, opportunity, and creativity, we remain dedicated to being honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical in everything we do. We are a certified SBA 8(a) small disadvantaged business that supports multiple IT customers within the Federal, civilian, and private sectors. Digital Consultants also offers our employees growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package. Our founding principles, Fairness, and Common Sense make working here more than a job; it s the Digital family.

The Digital Consultants family of companies is currently seeking a Technical/Proposal Writer to support our growing proposal volume and company growth targets. This position requires a minimum of 5 years of Federal Government proposal support and writing experience to assist in the development of compliant and compelling proposals that clearly describe our strengths and discriminators. The Proposal Writer develops proposal outlines, compliance matrices, and proposal schedules, writes sections of proposals as assigned, and compiles edits from reviewers. This position can be 100% remote. The Proposal Manager reports to the Senior Vice President for Growth.

Responsibilities:

• Review incoming solicitations (RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, SSs) and shred (deconstruct) them for their requirements.
• Analyze USG solicitation's Sections L and M (or equivalent) for proposal requirements.
• Develop compliance matrices for proposal responses to solicitations.
• Template (outline and develop response instructions) for technical, management, and past performance volumes.
• Contribute to all aspects of the proposal development process, including: strategies and themes, storyboarding, writing, editing, design, scheduling work sessions, and graphics/desktop publishing support.
• Work directly with corporate executives, managers, and SMEs to create proposal content inclusive of technical solutions, management approaches, and past performance references.
• Support proposed key personnel and other candidate resume templating and then converting original raw resumes to proposal quality resumes; work with proposed candidates to acquire required information.
• Attend and contribute to proposal progress meetings.
• Assist in the company's preparations for color team reviews and participate in recovery efforts.
• Support lessons learned processes by evaluating proposal workflow and making recommendations for improvement.
• Manage and update proposal boilerplates, templates, and ready reference libraries.
• Support the final production phase of the proposal process.

• Minimum 5 years of experience performing in a technical writer or proposal writer capacity in response to US Government (USG) solicitations.
• Minimum 3 years of experience and knowledge writing technical content for information technology proposals in response to Government solicitations.
• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or related field; in lieu of the degree, four years of additional experience (above the minimum of 5 years) in USG proposal writing may be substituted.
• Excellent command of English grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, and composition.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe.
• Experienced and capable of Desktop Publishing, word processing, and PowerPoint slide development in support of proposal development.
• Highly organized, team-oriented, independent thinker, and collaborative.
• Ability to handle multiple projects in time sensitive environments.
• Ability to organize and recall large amounts of detailed information.
• Ability to be flexible, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to analyze and solve problems with professionalism and patience.
• Ability to work well in time constrained, deadline driven conditions.

This position excludes workers in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, MD, NV, NJ, NY, OH, RI, VT, WA

Digital Consultants, an inclusive and welcoming company, is fully committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, Veterans status or any other protected characteristic.

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