Senior Technical Writer

Job Description:

• Lead writing and editing work streams for RFP, RFI, subcontractor capability, and related proposal documents supporting the Navy Marketing & Advertising Program.
• Interpret solicitation language, RFI/RFP instructions, performance requirements, evaluation factors, and compliance requirements; convert them into clear document plans and response outlines.
• Write and edit technical, management, staffing, quality, compliance, past performance, case study, and executive summary content across technical and operational work streams.
• Keep proposal teams aligned through annotated outlines, compliance matrices, content plans, review cycles, comment adjudication, version control, and final quality checks.
• Serve as the lead writer and editor for assigned RFP/RFI, subcontractor response, and program documentation efforts; provide day-to-day direction and quality review for junior writers, coordinators, and contributors.
• Lead planning, development, editing, and production of proposal volumes, RFI responses, capability narratives, technical approaches, management approaches, resumes, past performance materials, case studies, plans, reports, briefings, and other program artifacts.
• Analyze solicitation instructions, performance work statement requirements, evaluation criteria, page limits, formatting rules, compliance requirements, and response templates to ensure documents are complete and responsive.
• Develop and maintain annotated outlines, compliance matrices, style guides, section templates, content trackers, review packages, reusable content, acronym lists, and content libraries.
• Facilitate interviews and working sessions with SMEs and teaming partners across websites and applications, cybersecurity, CRM/Salesforce, lead tracking, dashboards, APIs, call center/SMS, electronic fulfillment, field events, lead nurturing, digital prospecting, pricing, staffing, and operations.
• Write and edit clear, accurate, persuasive content aligned with win themes, differentiators, evaluation factors, program outcomes, and customer requirements.
• Translate technical and operational inputs into plain-language proposal content without overstating qualifications or changing the meaning of SME contributions.
• Incorporate graphics, tables, callout text, references, workflow descriptions, compliance language, and other visual elements that help evaluators understand the proposed approach.
• Manage document schedules, review cycles, version control, comment adjudication, quality checks, and final production steps to support on-time delivery.
• Coordinate with capture, proposal, technical, operations, pricing, staffing, and partner teams to resolve content gaps and keep sections moving.
• Ensure documents meet applicable confidentiality, governance, records management, information protection, and proposal-sensitive handling requirements.
• Support lessons learned, content archiving, content-library improvements, and process improvements after submissions or major deliverables.

• 10+ years of technical writing, editing, proposal writing, or federal proposal/program documentation experience, including experience supporting complex federal solicitations, RFIs, task order responses, or contract deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a lead writer, senior editor, volume lead, proposal content lead, or comparable role responsible for organizing inputs and producing compliant response content.
• Strong understanding of federal proposal development, including solicitation instructions, evaluation factors, compliance matrices, annotated outlines, review cycles, technical and management volumes, staffing narratives, resumes, and past performance materials.
• Ability to interview technical and operational SMEs and translate complex inputs into clear content for executive, evaluator, customer, partner, and program audiences.
• Ability to understand and write about program content at a proposal level, including websites/applications, CRM/data, cybersecurity and data protection concepts, lead tracking, recruiting or marketing operations, contact center operations, analytics, fulfillment, field events, and business processes.
• Exceptional writing, editing, interviewing, organization, deadline management, comment adjudication, quality-control, and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint/Teams, Adobe Acrobat, and document collaboration/version-control workflows.
• Ability to handle sensitive or proposal-confidential information appropriately and work effectively in a remote, fast-moving proposal environment.
• U.S. citizenship.