Overview:
Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Professional Services SBU is looking for a Proposal Writer who will be responsible for authoring and editing content for proposals and responses to RFPs, RFIs and RFQs for current and potential clients. The Proposal Writer works with key stakeholders both independently and as a member of a team to develop proposal sections, such as, but not limited to: corporate and executive summaries, past performance volumes, technical approaches, management plans, business proposals, and other documents in support of the overall proposal effort.
Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Research information on a broad base of areas and describe the principles, operations, and basic concepts in clear simple language.
• Work with essential team members to derive storyboards, outlines, win themes, approach/methodologies and strategies.
• Interview and work directly with subject matter experts, program managers, and the business development team collecting, tailoring, and translating content to ensure appropriate messaging in compliance with solicitation documentation including RFPs, RFTOPs, Amendments, and Answers to Questions.
• Responsible for rewriting text to ensure clarity, consistency, and compliance in a timely manner following established RFP process.
• Coordinate and manage the efforts of multiple contributors.
• Create and use proposal templates following Chenega standards and best practices.
• Write original text and edit technical data prepared by others.
• Maintain documentation within SharePoint for future reference.
• Ensure proposals are compliant, properly formatted and aligned with Chenega standards.
• Ensure timely completion and accuracy of all work.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 0-2 years’ experience as a full-time technical writer.
• Prior experience authoring college or professional newspaper articles, proposals in response to government RFP/I/Qs or similar documents in federal contracting and/or government environments preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Superior grammar, as well as written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently author proposal sections, with a focus on compliance, quality, and timeliness.
• Strong editing and proof-reading skills as well as an understanding of industry standard proposal best practices.
• Creativity, flexibility, organization, time management, and listening skills.
• Ability to adhere to internal proposal development and RFP response deadlines.
• Compliance with all processes and procedures.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure team environment.
• Ability to collaborate with business development executives on special projects and initiatives (white papers, website content, and other marketing material).
• Expert-level ability in Microsoft Office Suite, with experience in document structure, word styles, templates, charts, and graphs. Microsoft Teams experience and working knowledge.
• Knowledge of federal government contracting.

Teleworking Permitted?: true Teleworking Details: Hybrid role - two days a week onsit

• Research information on a broad base of areas and describe the principles, operations, and basic concepts in clear simple language.
• Work with essential team members to derive storyboards, outlines, win themes, approach/methodologies and strategies.
• Interview and work directly with subject matter experts, program managers, and the business development team collecting, tailoring, and translating content to ensure appropriate messaging in compliance with solicitation documentation including RFPs, RFTOPs, Amendments, and Answers to Questions.
• Responsible for rewriting text to ensure clarity, consistency, and compliance in a timely manner following established RFP process.
• Coordinate and manage the efforts of multiple contributors.
• Create and use proposal templates following Chenega standards and best practices.
• Write original text and edit technical data prepared by others.
• Maintain documentation within SharePoint for future reference.
• Ensure proposals are compliant, properly formatted and aligned with Chenega standards.
• Ensure timely completion and accuracy of all work.
• Other duties as assigne