Staff Proposal Writer

Staff Proposal Writer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with at least 8 total years of professional experience or 6 years with a master’s degree. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5 years of experience working as a proposal writer responding to Federal Government solicitations with $100M+ valuation.
• Evidence of a successful track record of high quality, high scoring proposals.
• Demonstrated success writing and leading technical, management, transition, staffing, and/or corporate experience & past performance volumes for complex efforts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Due to nature of the role, U.S. citizenship is required.
• Ability to be onsite for live proposal efforts.

Responsibilities

• Work with Solution Architects and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to document, write, and articulate solutions and corporate experience against proposal requirements that also highlight-Why Leidos.
• Assignments include, but are not limited to, leading written responses to technical, management, corporate experience, staffing rationale, resumes, and transition sections.
• Work as part of a collaborative team to clearly articulate solution and strategy, approach to performing the work, experience, win themes, and discriminators.
• Apply communication and interviewing skills to gather needed information from internal and external personnel to support writing activities.
• Write clear, compliant, compelling, persuasive, and articulate proposal sections; translate complex ideas into easily understandable text.
• Develop and implement process improvements to help improve proposal quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Federal Government proposals, including FEDSIM proposals.
• Experience with traditional video, live orals, and / or demonstration proposals.
• Experience using Generative AI tools to support writing of compelling and compliant proposals.
• Active Secret or Top-Secret clearance and eligibility for SCI.