Proposal Specialist

About Street Level Strategy

Street Level Strategy, LLC is a political and public affairs consulting firm specializing in grassroots mobilization, coalition building, campaign management, marketing, communications, and strategic consulting. Street Level Strategy combines time-tested grassroots engagement strategies with a data-driven, results-first approach to design and execute high-impact programs for clients across various industries and sectors.

Street Level Strategy is a growing firm with a footprint across North America. Our team of over 30 professionals is based in Pasadena, CA, with offices in Sacramento and Berkeley, CA. Clients include political candidates, ballot measures, issue advocacy campaigns, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and Fortune 500 corporations across the US and Canada.

We take pride in the diversity of our team – we are bilingual, have women and people of color in high-level leadership positions, and reflect the diversity of the communities we work in.

Street Level is hiring a Proposal Specialist in Pasadena, CA or Sacramento, CA

Street Level Strategy is a growing public affairs firm, with a high volume of proposal opportunities. In this role, you’ll prepare proposals that describe the features and benefits of Street Level’s constantly evolving services. You’ll edit, rewrite, and write technical and nontechnical text as necessary to prepare the most compelling possible proposals that highlight Street Level’s services. You’ll also be responsible for the creation of clear, visually persuasive graphics and for the timely delivery of a clean, error-free final product.

Reporting directly to the Managing Partner and coordinating with Client Team Leads, this role will play a critical part in designing and defining SLS’s business strategy.

This position is ideal for someone who has initiative, flexibility, and dependability to produce documents that reflect Street Level’s commitment to engaging and outreaching to communities.

• Build and develop a pipeline across federal, state, local, and private sources, establishing the tools and routines that surface relevant solicitations early
• Perform detailed analysis of RFI/RFQ/RFP documents — evaluation criteria and applicable state or agency procurement rules — to identify requirements, constraints, and discriminators
• Provide leadership with honest bid/no-bid recommendations, including recommending which RFPS to pursue and have a chance to win
• Draft and submit questions to the contracting officer or procurement contact to resolve ambiguity before the response is built

• Track priority business pursuits from client team leads, as well as build a tracking mechanism to monitor all public business sites for federal, local, and state RFP’s.
• Develop working knowledge of target local, state, and federal agencies' priorities and procurement history, and translate it into positioning SLS can act on
• Identify and recommend structures that close capability gaps for specific RFP pursuits
• Produce capture plans for the firm's highest-value business pursuits, defining win strategy, discriminators, and gaps to close

• Own the proposal schedule end to end, with milestones, reviews, and author deadlines
• Coordinate input from teaming partners and subcontractors on the process, ensuring deadlines and milestones are met.

• Build and maintain the compliance matrix or checklist for each submission, ensuring every requirement is addressed,
• Enforce all format constraints — page counts, fonts, margins, volume structure, file naming and size — as hard limits
• Fact-check content and flag technical errors, unsupported claims, and inconsistencies before submission
• Hold final documents to firm editorial standards, drawing on shared editorial support for line-level proofing

• Write high-quality, responsive, persuasive content that answers what was asked and scores against how it will be evaluated
• Develop win themes and executive summaries that lead with outcomes that…