Call for CVs: Technical Proposal Writer

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Requirements:

• Subject matter expertise in one of McCO’s 3 service areas: professional training and capacity building, advisory and technical consulting, and research and analysis.
• At least 5 years’ experience as a lead technical writer on winning bids for U.S. government clients, especially DOD, DOS and DOI.
• Demonstrated capability to successfully design innovative, practical, and viable technical solutions for federal proposals.
• Excellent ability to work flexibly as part of a team in a fast-paced environment with tight and fluctuating deadlines.
• Strong writing, editing, communication, interpersonal, strategic thinking, and management skills.
• Demonstrated experience in proposal and new business development according to Shipley procedures and the ability to deliver high quality work independently according to hard deadlines.

Responsibilities:

• Attend key bid preparation meetings to support the identification of win themes and the development of key messages in the proposal narrative.
• Leverage deep customer knowledge and understanding to support the design of responsive technical solutions.
• Contribute to the workplan development in collaboration with bid managers.
• Write (either independently or as part of a team) clear, compelling and complete technical approaches that are compliant with bid requirements including evaluation criteria.
• Work with a variety of specialists across the organization to incorporate their input into the technical proposal ensuring they come across as a ‘one voice’ technical solution.
• Attend (or lead, when appropriate) color team reviews.
• Identify more appropriate content formats (e.g. infographics, diagrams) that help strengthening the bid readability.
• Write/support other proposal sections (Management Approach, Past Performance) as agreed according to specific contract and proposal requirements.