Proposal Manager with Security Clearance

Oak Grove Technologies, LLC, a dynamic and fast-growing federal contractor, is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Proposal Manager to support proposal development, capture, and business development operations across the organization.

Reports To:

Vice President, Growth

Location:

Raleigh, NC (Hybrid) or Fully Remote within the Continental United States Oak Grove Technologies is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business based in Raleigh, NC, with a Test and Training Center located near Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall. With over 20 years of expertise in training, consulting, technology, and operational support, the company provides services to the military, government, and law enforcement. Committed to excellence, innovation, and national security, Oak Grove Technologies fulfills federal defense contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsor ships and events.

Driven by its mission-focused approach, the company seeks top talent to develop impactful solutions. Oak Grove Technologies offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Requirements The Proposal Manager owns all aspects of the proposal lifecycle - from pre-RFP planning and pre-positioning through submission, post-submission evaluation support, and after-action review - ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, fully compliant, and persuasive proposals to federal government customers.

This role partners closely with capture leadership, business development, contracts, pricing, recruiting, and operations to align every proposal with the approved win strategy, the customer's stated and unstated priorities, and OGT's corporate objectives. The Proposal Manager is equally comfortable running a 10-day task order response and orchestrating a multi-volume, multi-partner IDIQ or full-and-open recompete valued in the hundreds of millions.

Because OGT frequently pursues work as a prime through Mentor-Protégé and small business joint ventures, the Proposal Manager also serves as the coordination hub for teammate inputs, workshare narratives, and partner-facing deliverables - while protecting compliance with FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, and SBA regulations governing joint venture performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Proposal Leadership and Lifecycle Management
* Lead the end-to-end development of compliant, compelling proposals across Requests for Proposal (RFP), Requests for Quote (RFQ), Requests for Information (RFI), Sources Sought responses, white papers, Broad Agency Announcements, and unsolicited proposals.

* Serve as the single point of accountability for proposal execution from RFP release (or earlier, at Draft RFP) through submission, clarifications, Evaluation Notices, Final Proposal Revisions, and debriefs.

* Develop and maintain detailed proposal management plans, including compliance matrices, annotated outlines, writing assignments, storyboards, data calls, and milestone schedules built backward from the submission deadline.

* Facilitate proposal kickoff, daily/weekly stand-ups, and status meetings; assign tasks with clear owners and due dates; and drive contributors to on-time, on-quality delivery.

* Plan and run color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold, White Glove), recruit qualified reviewers, prepare reviewer packages and evaluation criteria, adjudicate comments, and ensure recovery actions are implemented and verified.

* Manage production and submission - assembly, page-count and formatting checks, file naming, redaction, PDF preparation, and electronic upload through SAM.gov, PIEE, eBuy, agency portals, or partner-designated systems - including submission dry runs well ahead of the deadline.

* Track and enforce the proposal schedule, escalating risks, resource shortfalls, and slipping deliverables early and through the capture manager rather than at the point of failure.

* Lead structured after action reviews following each submission and debrief, capturing lessons learned, reusable content, and process corrections.
Compliance and Quality Assurance
* Build and maintain the compliance matrix mapping every Section L instruction, Section M evaluation factor, Section C/SOW/PWS requirement, and applicable…