Proposal Specialist

The Proposal Specialist primarily focuses on proposal coordination and development, as well as requests for qualifications and interview materials. The role involves creating, developing, and delivering proposals, statements of qualifications, and interview presentations to showcase the company's skills and capabilities. Additionally, the Proposal Specialist participates in capture planning to create strategically aligned design and content for proposal development and related material.

Essential Functions  

• Manages the Request for Proposal (RFP) as a project, including setting, enforcing, and maintaining timelines for successful completion of proposals
• Drafts responses to RFPs and other client deliverables as assigned, writes content and coordinates graphics for a completed proposal that accurately reflects RFP requirement.
• Prepares SOQs and client interview materials
• Utilize effective written and oral communication
  
  

 Responsibilities  

• Interviews and gathers information to customize RFP responses with input from business line leaders and/or subject-matter experts
• Provides copywriting for proposal content including scope of services, project approaches, customized project roles and bios, etc.
• Provides quality control review, proofing and editing of all proposal and presentation material, and oversees final production and delivery of proposals
  
  

 Qualifications  

• Associates degree in a related field
• Proficiency with computers
  
  

 Preferences  

• Adobe Creative Suite experience
  

Knowledge  

• Knowledge and understanding of processes, procedures, and methods needed to perform duties which is generally acquired and developed through formal education, training, and relevant work experience.
• Complete tasks by making decisions using steps, processes or methods from available choices.
  
  

 Skills  

• Using the guidelines provided, apply judgment and interpretation skills to complete duties.
  
  

 Abilities  

• Management does not exist or is limited in scope.
• Use common courtesy while interacting with people to satisfactorily perform the job.
• Activities allow the individual to provide a recommendation used by others when making decisions.
• Complete assignments independently and obtain guidance for unfamiliar tasks, problems and situations.
  

 Hours and Travel
This position requires the individual work 40 hours per week with 100% of time spent in the office.

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

The Employee Is Regularly Required To  

• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, twist, crouch and crawl

• Use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms

• Talk or hear and communicate clearly
  
  

 The Employee Must  

• Frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds
  
  

 Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties

This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive or restrictive and other duties may be assigned. It is a description of the job as presently defined, and is subject at any time to revision. This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, as needed.