Senior Proposal Specialist

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Senior Proposal Specialist developing competitive infrastructure proposals for GFT, a transportation and engineering firm. Leading proposal writing, compliance, capture planning, interviews, and client-management support.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage proposals and presentations, provide capture support, and assist with client management support.
  • Lead one complex proposal concurrently with smaller proposals.
  • Lead sections for complex proposals.
  • Organize and coordinate interview teams to prepare content.
  • Compile and distribute meeting notes, action items, and review comments.
  • Analyze SOQ and RFP requirements and prepare compliance matrices, outlines, and schedules.
  • Organize and coordinate proposal resources, including project management, technical teams, subconsultants, and graphics/print teams.
  • Ensure assignment completion, work review, adherence to best practices, and quality-control objectives.
  • Provide strategic writing and editing support for qualifications, executive summaries, win themes, resumes, project descriptions, summary paragraphs, action captions, and benefit statements.
  • Enter and track opportunities and proposals in CRM.
  • Support sales interview teams by scheduling and facilitating kickoffs and rehearsals and preparing presentation materials.
  • Facilitate capture-plan support for short- to medium-length capture phases and simple pursuits.
  • Liaise with MARCOM staff during capture planning.
  • Keep CRM documentation updated.
  • Coordinate client-management team activities for Tier 2 clients.
  • Participate in or coordinate Tier 1 client-management activities.
  • Coordinate with MARCOM to define support needs.
  • Provide research, scheduling, and information-organization support to Tier 1 clients.
  • Format and edit client-management plans according to company templates and standards.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

  • Experience preparing proposals for capital public works projects and California government agencies as a prime contractor, including Caltrans, Metro, and BART.
  • Normally a 4-year degree in English, marketing, journalism, communications, or an applicable field is required.
  • Minimum of 5 years of combined prior proposal experience is required.
  • Experience in the AEC industry leading, coordinating, planning, and developing architectural-engineering-construction proposals and qualifications.
  • Section writing experience.
  • Demonstrated progressively increasing responsibility during at least the past 1 year.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to work with some degree of independence to execute the proposal lifecycle.
  • Successful completion of a criminal background check.
  • Ability to work core business hours of 8:00 AM–5:00 PM.

Benefits:

  • Remote work environment.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
  • Tax-deferred 401(k) savings plan.
  • Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
  • Commitment to professional development.
  • Access to internal and external training programs.
  • Support of active participation in professional organizations.
  • Incentive compensation for eligible positions.