Federal Proposal Manager – Lead Writer

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📄 Proposal Manager

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Praescient Analytics

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

🏛️ Government

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Defense • Government • Artificial Intelligence

Praescient Analytics is a mission-focused analytics and engineering company that transforms data into actionable intelligence for government, defense, and law enforcement customers. It combines advanced analytics, AI/ML, data science, cyber analytics, and secure IT/cloud engineering to provide operational and investigative support, predictive modeling, and mission-ready technology solutions. The firm embeds experienced practitioners — former federal agents, intelligence officers, military veterans, data scientists, and engineers — to deliver precision-driven solutions that strengthen national security, combat threats, and optimize federal operations.

📋 Description

• Own assigned federal RFP, RFQ, RFI, sources-sought, task-order, BPA, IDIQ, and GWAC responses from bid decision through submission and lessons learned • Analyze solicitations and amendments, including Sections C, H, L, and M, evaluation criteria, statements of work, performance work statements, attachments, clauses, page limits, and submission instructions • Develop and control compliance matrices, requirements crosswalks, annotated outlines, writing plans, proposal schedules, content assignments, templates, review plans, data calls, and submission checklists • Lead proposal kickoffs, solutioning sessions, daily stand-ups, content recovery meetings, and Pink, Red, Gold, and final-production reviews using APMP/Shipley-aligned practices • Write and integrate technical, management, staffing, transition, quality, corporate-experience, past-performance, key-personnel, and executive-summary content • Interview executives, program managers, solution architects, technical SMEs, recruiters, contracts personnel, and partners to extract solution details, benefits, proof points, metrics, risks, and discriminators • Translate complex solutions involving data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, cloud, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, software development, systems integration, and mission support into evaluator-focused narratives • Coordinate and edit inputs from internal authors and teaming partners; identify missing, inconsistent, unsupported, generic, or noncompliant content and drive corrective actions to closure • Perform structural, substantive, compliance, style, and final-copy reviews of proposals and sections drafted by the Federal Pipeline Manager & Proposal Writer • Provide independent editorial review across volumes for voice, readability, cross-volume consistency, requirement traceability, claim support, acronym use, tables, graphics concepts, and action captions • Implement a two-review protocol for major submissions: independent compliance and content review followed by separate final editorial and production review • Use approved generative-AI tools for requirements extraction, compliance checking, outlining, drafting, rewriting, gap analysis, and quality control while independently validating output • Manage document configuration, version control, page allocation, production, final quality checks, authorization, and on-time electronic submission • Maintain reusable proposal content, approved past-performance references, resumes, capability matrices, templates, lessons learned, and source documentation in the content repository • Support capture-stage reviews, bid/no-bid assessments, response planning, and opportunity transitions when proposal workload permits • Partner with executive leadership, business development, capture, contracts, pricing, recruiting, program personnel, technical SMEs, and teaming partners • Prioritize work with the Federal Pipeline Manager & Proposal Writer, divide proposal ownership, and provide reciprocal editorial review during concurrent pursuits

🎯 Requirements

• At least four (4) years of hands-on federal proposal development experience, including responsibility for managing complete responses and personally writing substantive technical and management content • Current Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) certification at the Foundation level or higher • Demonstrated experience owning federal proposals from kickoff through submission, including compliance, scheduling, writing, reviews, production, and final quality control • Strong knowledge of federal acquisition and source-selection practices and ability to interpret complex solicitation instructions and evaluation criteria • Exceptional writing and editing skills, including the ability to materially improve weak SME content rather than performing grammar-only proofreading • Experience building compliance matrices and annotated outlines and tracing final content directly to solicitation requirements • Ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines, contributors, partners, and dependencies in a fully remote environment • Advanced, hands-on experience using ChatGPT or comparable enterprise generative-AI tools for solicitation analysis, requirements extraction, compliance mapping, annotated outlines, drafting, rewriting, gap analysis, editing, and quality control, with demonstrated methods for source grounding and output validation • Advanced Microsoft Word skills and strong working knowledge of PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat • U.S. citizenship required due to federal customer and information-access requirements • Ability to successfully complete company-required employment verification and background screening • Experience with DoD, Intelligence Community, DHS, DOJ, or other national-security and civilian-agency procurements preferred • Experience leading small-business prime proposals, subcontractor inputs, task-order responses, and major IDIQ or GWAC bids preferred • Experience with oral presentations, demonstrations, proposal graphics concepts, staffing plans, and pricing-volume coordination preferred • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered • Active or recently held federal security clearance preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Very competitive salary based on qualifications and experience • Comprehensive, Company paid United Health Care Medical for you and your family (We pay your premiums and deductibles) • 401(k) with company matching • Travel & performance incentives • 3 weeks paid time off (plus Federal Holidays) • $5K annual training allowance • $500 book allowance • Tuition reimbursement program • Real opportunity for career growth • Constant collaboration with numerous teams to ensure client success • A team that respects and embraces your ideas and expertise