Proposal Writer, Team Lead

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a Proposal Writer, Team Lead to join the Corporate team! In this role, you will coordinate proposal efforts for DoD and federal contracts while also playing a key role in capture, business development (BD), and pipeline management. This is a high-impact role that requires strong technical writing skills, organizational abilities, and a deep understanding of the federal procurement process. 

This is a full-time, remote position. 

• Lead Proposal Writing Team, including supervising other proposal writers and ensuring quality product development
• Collaborate with other Proposal and Growth Team leadership to refine proposal writing processes and procedures
• Assign proposal writing resources to support the development of Request for Information/ Proposal (RFI/RFP) responses
• Collaborate with Operations Team leadership to plan, facilitate, and execute Writers on Worksite (WOW) sessions
• Work with the Growth Team to update and maintain Past Performance repository
• Author all sections of a solicitation (Management, Technical, Past Performance, and Corporate Experience)
• Conduct technical edits of other’s work
• Participate as an author and reviewer in design sessions, working sessions, and color reviews to provide critical feedback to others and accept critiques of your own work to improve responses
• Create compliant, responsive, and compelling documents to answer Government solicitations, including white papers, sources sought, Requests for Information (RFI), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs), with minimal guidance
• Collaborate with proposal team members such as the proposal manager, capture manager, and graphic artist to design a compliant and compelling proposal solution, outline, and response
• Collaborate with operations team members, project managers, and Subject Matter Experts (SME) and actively participate in the overall solutioning process
• Extract information from Subject Matter Experts (SME) across a variety of highly technical subjects to meet the requirements of the solicitation, and put together a cohesive technical response (This ability includes interviewing, creating, compiling, and analyzing electronic data calls, and data mining from existing material)
• Analyze and extract requirements from RFP and other solicitation documents such as Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOW), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) to ensure compliance
• Creatively connect Apogee’s past experience with new approaches in order to effectively address customer requirements or hot buttons
• Act as a volume lead and assign deadlines, review work, and be responsible for the overall content submitted by other authors
• Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information during meetings
• Maintain quality results by using templates and following proposal-writing standards, including readability, consistency, and tone
• Improve proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and boilerplate information. Implement improvements during future efforts

Minimum Experience:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen 
Clearance: Must have an active Secret-level security clearance
Education: Associate's Degree
Years of Experience: 11 or more years of experience supporting DoD and/or other Government agency proposal efforts

Preferred Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Years of Experience: 8 or more years of experience supporting DoD and/or other Government agency proposal efforts
Certifications: APMP Foundation-level certification or understanding and experience applying Shipley methodology to proposal writing - (highly preferred)

Additional Experience:

• Outstanding organizational skills with the ability to manage and execute multiple tasks efficiently
• Meticulous attention to detail, paired with the ability to adapt seamlessly to change 
• Skilled at collaborating effectively with managers, technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across cross-functional teams
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Adobe Acrobat

• Proven ability to work independently and consistently meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Skilled in tailoring resumes and crafting impactful qualification summaries to align with specific job requirements and industry expectations.

Additional Information:
Location: Remote
Travel: 10% CONUS travel may be required