Senior Proposal Writer

3 days ago


Reston, Virginia, United States Leidos Full time
Job Title: Senior Proposal Writer

Leidos is seeking a highly skilled Senior Proposal Writer to join our industry-leading Proposal Operations Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned proposal professional to make a significant impact and contribute to the success of our organization.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and providing proposal expertise to all Lines of Business, including Defense, Intelligence, Civil, and Health.

We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of success on large, complex bids and a strong background in Federal Government proposals, including FEDSIM proposals.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Work with Solution Architects and Subject Matter Experts to document, write, and articulate solutions and corporate experience against proposal requirements.
  • Assignments will include leading written responses to technical, management, corporate experience, staffing rationale, resumes, and transition sections.
  • Ability to understand RFP requirements and respond with compliant and compelling solutions.
  • Work as part of a collaborative team to clearly articulate solution and strategy, approach to performing the work, experience, win themes, and discriminators.
  • Apply communication and interviewing skills to gather needed information from internal and external personnel to support writing activities.
  • Write clear, compliant, compelling, persuasive, and articulate proposal sections; translate complex ideas into easily understandable text.
  • Develop and implement process improvements to help improve proposal quality.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree with at least 8 total years of professional experience or 6 years with a master's degree.
  • 5 years of experience working as a proposal writer responding to Federal Government solicitations.
  • Evidence of a successful track record of high quality, high scoring proposals.
  • Demonstrated success writing and leading technical, management, transition, staffing, and/or corporate experience & past performance volumes for complex efforts.
  • Excellent writing and communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Strong work ethic and desire to excel and keep growing over time.
  • Due to the nature of the role, U.S. citizenship is required.
Desired Qualifications:
  • 8 years of experience working in a competitive proposal environment, 5 years of experience as a writer responding to Federal Government solicitations, and 2 years supporting FEDSIM captures.
  • Experience with Federal Government proposals, including FEDSIM proposals.
  • Experience with traditional video, live orals, and/or demonstration proposals.
  • Ability to coach and instruct others to facilitate consistency across multiple authors.
  • Active Secret or Top-Secret clearance and eligibility for SCI.

The position is primarily onsite in our Reston, VA headquarters with potential to telework up to 25% between live proposals.

The expectation is to be onsite during proposal efforts.

Support to the capture and proposal team may be required in various locations around the Washington Metro Area during the proposal effort.



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