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Job Description Summary:
Are you a Proposal Writer who enjoys the challenge of writing proposals and working on a collaborative team? Are you looking for an opportunity to work with an established company that values its employee’s enthusiasm and technical contributions? Maximus has an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Proposal Writer position within the Federal Proposal Operations Group.
The primary responsibility of the Proposal Writer will be to work with the Proposal Manager, Business Development and Operations Personnel to plan and deliver major proposals to a wide range of Government clients at locations worldwide. This position is a highly visible role that works closely with senior leadership, capture personnel, and operations management to write, edit, review, and produce winning proposals typically valued between $20 Million and $1Billion.
We encourage you to apply for this opportunity. Maximus is dedicated to providing the atmosphere to allow individuals to grow their career. We offer an extremely varied and interesting diversity of clients and projects with an opportunity to learn new things every day. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working dedicated and collaborative professionals. Our ideal candidate is seeking challenging work and the opportunity to make a difference.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Education and Experience Minimum Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications
Job Summary:
The primary responsibility of the Proposal Writer will be to work with the Proposal Manager, Business Development and Operations Personnel to plan and deliver major proposals to a wide range of Government clients at locations worldwide. This position is a highly visible role that works closely with senior leadership, capture personnel, and operations management to write, edit, review, and produce winning proposals typically valued between $20 Million and $1Billion.
We encourage you to apply for this opportunity. Maximus is dedicated to providing the atmosphere to allow individuals to grow their career. We offer an extremely varied and interesting diversity of clients and projects with an opportunity to learn new things every day. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working dedicated and collaborative professionals. Our ideal candidate is seeking challenging work and the opportunity to make a difference.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Write responses to Requests for Proposals, Requests for Information, and other federal, state or international government requests
- Create compliant, compelling responses for assigned proposal sections/topics and create associated graphics, charts, tables, appendices and other information in support of proposal development
- Ensure win strategy, technical solution, win themes, discriminators, compliance, and clear understanding of the requirement are well-articulated and consistent throughout final proposal documents
- Analyze government solicitations, identify response requirements, and prepare unique, tailored, and detailed proposal responses in compliance with government agency requirements
- Write Management, Past Performance, Resumes and Plan RFP volumes
- Review and edit proposal responses for consistency, compliance, win theme incorporation, solution accuracy, and other elements during regular and core team review cycles to create the final proposal submission
- Research relevant corporate, project, client and industry statistics and data in support of creating proposal responses for all MAXIMUS lines of business, segments, and international entities
- Manage activities of two or more sections
- Work on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of company markets and strategic objectives.
- Remain current on all solicitation modifications/Q&As and communicate them to the team,
- Revise schedules, outlines, and compliance matrixes as necessary throughout proposal life cycle
- Coordinate with graphic designers to conceptualize, develop, and integrate compelling proposal graphics that convey concepts and proposed solutions to enhance proposal documents
- Collaborate with Capture Managers, Technical Leads/PMs, and SMEs as required
- Coordinate with creative services staff to conceptualize, develop, and integrate compelling proposal graphics that convey concepts and proposed solutions and enhance proposal documents
- Uses automated proposal collaboration and document management tools, including SharePoint
- Support other Proposal Operations activities as needed
Education and Experience Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 7 years’ proposal writing experience; Would considered additional experience in lieu of degree.
- At least 3 years’ Federal Government proposal management, support, and/or writing experience
- Ability to develop compelling themes, discriminators, and messaging to communicate and support value proposition
- Ability to guide and effectively influence with and without authority; strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with all levels of management, proposal teams, SMEs, peers, and teaming partners
- Strong analytical skills and ability to understand and write about complex topics.
- Exceptional organizational skills and an ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
- Ability to lead development of graphics that support win themes, solution, and key messaging
- Ability to create original content using interview and research techniques
- Ability to prioritize and write several projects simultaneously, to include hands-on and strategic support
- Ability to work to meet deadlines (work overtime as needed)
- Ability to work well independently or as part of a team
- Ability to work remotely and/or with geographically disparate teams
- Experience implementing standard proposal processes or procedures
- Fluency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and SharePoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Evidence of successful support to large competitive proposals with values more than $100m. Prior Volume Lead experience a plus.
- Experience leading teams of proposal writers and subject matter experts to deliver winning proposal content
- Familiarity and/or expertise in technical frameworks and methodologies
- Candidate may be required to provide a portfolio of representative writing samples
- Candidate may be required to complete a timed writing and/or editing exercise during the interview process
- Formal proposal training and/or certifications (e.g., APMP)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Minimum Requirements:
- Write responses to Requests for Proposals, Requests for Information, and other federal, state or international government requests.
- Create compliant, compelling responses for assigned proposal sections/topics and create associated graphics, charts, tables, appendices and other information in support of proposal development.
- Serve as co-capture on individual proposal development efforts to lead the writing team and work with capture and business development teams to ensure compliant, on-time submission.
- Review and edit proposal responses for consistency, compliance, win theme incorporation, solution accuracy, and other elements during regular and core team review cycles in order to create the final proposal submission.
- Research relevant corporate, project, client and industry statistics and data in support of creating proposal responses for all Maximus lines of business, segments and international entities.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree.
- 7-10 years experience
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