Staff Proposal Writer
Company: Leidos
Location: Great Falls
Posted on: April 17, 2024
Job Description:
Description Leidos is growing! Join us as we add to our industry
best Proposal Operations Team! Our team is looking for a Staff
Proposal Writer with experience in traditional U.S. Government,
FEDSIM, and commercial proposals. This position is within the
Strategy & Business Development's Capture Operations & Excellence
Group, which supports Leidos' largest, most strategic bids across
the enterprise. As such, this is an exciting role for those that
want to make an immediate impact and be recognized for their
contributions to our organization. This role is to support
competitive proposal bids as a Proposal Writer, working directly
with Capture Executives, Solution Architects, and Technical and
Management Volume Leads to develop work products to meet
solicitation requirements. Candidate will be responsible for
leading and providing proposal expertise to all Lines of Business,
to include Defense, Intelligence, Civil, and Health. The Proposal
Writer should have a proven successful track record on large,
complex bids. Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with Solution Architects and Subject Matter Experts
(SME's) to document, write, and articulate solutions and corporate
experience against proposal requirements.
- Assignments will include, but are not limited to, leading
written responses to technical, management, corporate experience,
staffing rationale, resumes, and transition sections. Ability to
understand RFP requirements and respond with compliant and
compelling solutions.
- 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.Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree with at least 8 total years of professional
experience or 6 years with a master's degree.
- 5 years of experience working as a proposal writer responding
to Federal Government solicitations.
- 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.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong work ethic and desire to excel and keep growing over
time.
- Due to nature of the role, U.S. citizenship is required.
- The position is primarily onsite in our Reston, VA headquarters
with potential to telework up to 25% between live proposals. The
expectation is to be onsite during proposal efforts. Support to the
capture and proposal team may be required in various locations
around the Washington Metro Area during the proposal effort.Desired
Qualifications:
- 8 years of experience working in a competitive proposal
environment, 5 years of experience as a writer responding to
Federal Government solicitations, and 2 years supporting FEDSIM
captures.
- Experience with Federal Government proposals, including FEDSIM
proposals.
- Experience with traditional video, live orals, and / or
demonstration proposals.
- Ability to coach and instruct others to facilitate consistency
across multiple authors.
- Active Secret or Top-Secret clearance and eligibility for
SCI.COE22Original Posting Date:2024-04-09While subject to change
based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this
job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an
anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original
posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range $101,400.00 -
$183,300.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general
guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but
are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos, Alexandria , Staff Proposal Writer, Advertising , Great Falls, Virginia
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