Proposal Writer

The Alaka'ina Foundation Family of Companies has an exciting opportunity for a full time Proposal Writer for our Business Development (BD) team located in our Orlando, Florida office.

In this role, you will be required to act in a dynamic role responsible for critical/key support to the BD team for all proposal and market research efforts, by providing skilled writing support and efforts for the corporate proposal development process.

• Works closely with BD Team Members, Capture/BD Managers, BD leadership, consultants, and operational team members as needed to complete proposal efforts.
• Supports the proposal writing within a structured proposal development process.
• Proposal writing duties will include but do not be limited to the development, authoring, editing and revising of content for proposals across various scope/service/task areas, as well as market research efforts to include Requests for Information (RFI)/sources sought responses, white papers, and capability statements.
• As part of a team, reporting to the Solutions Development Manager, maintains duties in a support/lead role as required for: writing and editing; assigning/managing/soliciting inputs and content contributions from SMEs in field operations; collaborating with the proposal team to develop proposal response format and structure; working with Capture Manager, Proposal Manager and/or BD leadership to develop proposal outlines, capabilities matrices, past performance and proposal content;
  
  managing/collecting subcontractor past performance and writing assignments to develop and submit final proposal documents.
• Prepares and provides data calls to teaming partners related to capabilities statements, past performance, etc.
• Prepares and provides data calls to internal SME personnel and interviews internal SMEs and knowledge experts to gather knowledge and information to support proposals.
• Translates technical data into meaningful customer value propositions.
• Plays a key role in proposal and RFI response editing and formatting.
• Meets proposal and RFI writing milestones related to individual work assignments.
• Participates in formal team reviews in accordance with the Shipley proposal method (pink, red, gold and final).
• Participates in proposal kickoff meetings as required.
• Participates in the development and maintenance of a document library that includes historical proposal documents, corporate experience and accomplishments, tailored proposal and RFI content, etc.
• Maintains various trackers, spreadsheets, repositories of referenceable information.
• May attend conferences.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree in related area
• Must possess a valid Driver's License

• Minimum of two to three (2-3) years of proposal, technical or sales writing. Preference for candidates with experience in proposal development in the federal government and/or DoD environment
• Ability to conduct research and generate original content. Comfortable with writing about new topics and performing editorial work
• Possess excellent writing skills for both technical and marketing-focused content
• Strong organization skills necessary. Ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
• Possess strong communication skills
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable, and exhibit excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work with people at all levels of the Company
• Ability to support fast pace and changing schedules
• Excellent personal computer skills and extreme proficiency in MSWord.
• Ability to use other MS products to include Excel and Power Point
• Basic experience with Adobe Acrobat
• Experience using Microsoft SharePoint or other document management system/version control system preferred
• Preference for candidates with any applied understanding of a formal proposal development process (Shipley Proposal Method experience preferred)
• Ability to travel if needed.

The Alaka'ina Foundation Family of Companies is a fast-growing government service provider. Employees enjoy competitive salaries; a 401K plan with company match; medical, dental, disability, and life…