Pursuits and Marketing Coordinator

Ready to make a meaningful impact in your career?

Join Blackwater, a dynamic and growing woman-owned environmental planning firm in the A/E industry, as our Pursuits and Marketing Coordinator! We’re looking for a passionate, creative, independent, and driven professional to play a key role in our business development efforts. This is a full‑time, hybrid position following an initial onboarding period—offering the flexibility you need and the opportunity you deserve.

• Proactively and continuously seek and track business opportunities by building new and maintaining existing connections, monitoring industry listservs, and client sites for relevant opportunities.
• Collaborate with senior staff on development of a marketing strategy to meet company goals.
• Track proposal leads, go/no-go decisions, and wins/losses. Generate reports on marketing efforts.
• Conduct market research and gather information about contracts/projects/clients/prime consultants.
• Coordinate proposal pursuits including identifying the RFP advertisement, pre-proposal meetings, kick-off meetings, proposal production, delivery, and debrief. Work with technical experts to develop content.
• Write and maintain visually appealing resumes, project profiles, and collateral in response to requests for proposals. Create high quality marketing and promotional materials, presentations, and products.
• Update content and maintain company social media profiles.
• Populate and maintain CRM system or other database to track business development opportunities and proposal information.
• Attend professional conferences and industry events to build industry relationships and contacts.

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, communications, or related discipline.
• Ability to proactively seek opportunities and execute a marketing strategy with limited direction.
• Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task and work within deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and effectively collaborate in a team environment.
• Proficiency in MS Office 365.
• Ability to successfully market through social media platforms.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including proofreading for content, grammar, and style.

• 5 years of professional experience, preferably in the transportation industry.
• Experience in government contracting in the A/E industry.
• Knowledge of the RFQ/RFP proposal process.
• Experience using a contract lifecycle management platform.
• Graphic design skills with experience in Canva and In-Design.

This position offers a competitive starting salary of $65,000–$80,000 (commensurate with experience); a benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; company paid short‑term disability and life insurance; paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching. Blackwater also offers professional development compensation including certifications, advanced education courses, and training.

Blackwater Environmental Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.