Proposal Writer, Team Lead

Overview

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a Proposal Writer, Team Lead to join the Corporate team! In this role, you will coordinate proposal efforts for DoD and federal contracts, while also playing a key role in capture, business development (BD), and pipeline management. This is a high-impact role that requires strong technical writing skills, organizational abilities, and a deep understanding of the federal procurement process. 

This is a full-time role, with a preferred location at our corporate office in Dayton, Ohio. We will also consider candidates based near the Corporate Office in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Telework flexibility is available up to two days per week. 

Responsibilities

• Lead Proposal Writing Team, including supervising other proposal writers and ensuring quality product development
• Collaborate with other Proposal and Growth Team leadership to refine proposal writing processes and procedures
• Participate in hiring process to support expansion of Proposal Team
• Assign proposal writing resources to support development of Request for Information/ Proposal (RFI/RFP) responses
• Collaborate with Operations Team leadership to plan, facilitate, and execute Writers on Worksite (WOW) sessions
• Work with Growth Team to update and maintain Past Performance repository
• Author all sections of a solicitation (Management, Technical, Past Performance, and Corporate Experience)
• Conduct technical edits of other’s work
• Participate as an author and reviewer in design sessions, working sessions, and color reviews to provide critical feedback to others and accept critiques of your own work to improve responses
• Create compliant, responsive, and compelling documents to answer Government solicitations including white papers, sources sought, Requests for Information (RFI), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with minimal guidance
• Collaborate with proposal team members such as the proposal manager, capture manager, and graphic artist to design a compliant and compelling proposal solution, outline, and response
• Collaborate with operations team members, project managers, and Subject Matter Experts (SME) and actively participate in the overall solutioning process
• Extract information from Subject Matter Experts (SME) across a variety of highly technical subjects to meet the requirements of the solicitation, and put together a cohesive technical response (This ability includes interviewing; creating, compiling, and analyzing electronic data calls; and data mining from existing material)
• Analyze and extract requirements from RFP and other solicitation documents such as Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOW), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) to ensure compliance
• Creatively connect Apogee’s past experience with new approaches in order to effectively address customer requirements or hot buttons
• Act as a volume lead and assign deadlines, review work, and be responsible for overall content submitted by other authors
• Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information during meetings
• Maintain quality results by using templates and following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone
• Improve proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and boilerplate information. Implement improvements during future efforts

Qualifications

Minimum Experience:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen Clearance: Must have an active Secret level security clearance, with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI level security clearance Education: High School Diploma Years of Experience: 16 or more years of experience supporting DoD and/or other Government agency proposal effortsAdditional Experience: Working knowledge and experience implementing the Shipley Proposal process

Preferred Qualifications:Clearance: TS/SCICertifications: APMP Foundation-level certification or understanding and experience applying Shipley methodology to proposal writing - (highly preferred)

Education: Bachelor's degree Years of Experience: 10 or more years of experience supporting DoD and/or other Government agency proposal efforts 

Additional Experience:

• Outstanding organizational skills with the ability to manage and execute multiple tasks efficiently
• Meticulous attention to detail, paired with ability to adapt seamlessly to change 
• Skilled at collaborating effectively with managers, technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across cross-functional teams
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Adobe Acrobat

Additional Information:Location: Apogee corporate office, located in Dayton, Ohio (candidates local to the Colorado Springs, Colorado Corporate Office will also be considered)Hybrid: This position allows telework flexibility up to two days per week Travel: 10% CONUS travel may be required 

Pay Range

Salary : $120,000 - $145,000