Technical Assistance Manager

• Pay or shift range: $80,000 USD to $95,000 USD This is an estimated pay range for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.
• Travel Required :
  Yes

The Technical Assistance Manager supports procurement activities, government contracting opportunities, proposal development, technical documentation, and operational coordination across Canopy Infrastructures’ disaster response, emergency management, and large-scale logistics operations. This role provides technical and administrative support to executive leadership, ensuring procurement opportunities are identified, evaluated, developed, and submitted accurately and on time. This role is full-time with benefits and is in-office in Norfolk VA.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This role has no direct reports.

Essential Functions:

• Monitor federal, state, and local procurement platforms and identify and evaluate relevant RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and other solicitations.
• Coordinate bid preparation, compliance reviews, and submission requirements to ensure timely, accurate, and responsive submissions.
• Maintain procurement calendars, contract documentation, and opportunity tracking.
• Assist with subcontractor and vendor procurement, qualification, registration, and compliance documentation.
• Develop and organize technical proposals, capability statements, technical narratives, scopes of work, operational plans, and response methodologies.
• Coordinate information gathering from internal departments and external partners to support proposal development.
• Support executive leadership with technical research, analysis, and recommendations.
• Provide technical coordination for pre-incident planning and post-incident operations, and support FEMA, USACE, state, and local government contracting initiatives.
• Assist with disaster response operational planning, logistics, resource coordination, and mobilization, including administrative and operational support during active deployments.
• Develop technical documentation supporting emergency response and recovery operations.
• Maintain relationships with government procurement officials, vendors, and subcontractors, coordinate technical inquiries, documentation requests, and procurement communications, and assist leadership in developing strategic procurement partnerships.
• Maintain organized procurement and technical documentation systems.
• Develop standard operating procedures and process improvements, and support after-action reviews and lessons-learned documentation.
• Coordinate across operational, business development, and administrative teams.
• Perform additional technical and operational assignments as directed by executive leadership.
• Setting priorities and defining actions, time, and resources needed to achieve predefined goals.
• Taking responsibility for a thorough and detailed method of working.
• Expressing ideas and opinions clearly in properly structured, well-organized, and grammatically correct reports or documents; utilizing language and terminology that is understandable for the reader.
• Collecting, consolidating, and using relevant information; recognizing important information; tracing possible causes of problems, and searching for practical data/solutions.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel may be required in support of operational requirements, including deployments.

Required education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, emergency management, public administration, logistics, or a related discipline; or equivalent professional experience.
• Five years of experience in procurement, contracting, proposal development, or related operations.
• Familiarity with FEMA, USACE, and state/local government procurement processes.
• Strong technical writing, research, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive procurement opportunities.
• Proficiency with procurement portals, Microsoft Office, and related business systems.
• Ability and willingness to travel in support of operational requirements.

Additional eligibility requirements:

• No other eligibility requirements.

This position that requires employee to be able to pass a background check and drug screen as required for this job.

Must meet I-9 requirements. This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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