The Role
The Proposal Writer is responsible for creating and managing proposals, responding to RFPs, and conducting research. They will collaborate with technical teams to gather information and ensure compliance with RFP requirements. The role requires strong writing skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage deadlines while generating strategic proposal content.
Summary Generated by Built In
Proposal Writer with Drupal and Website Development ExperienceRequirements
- Strong technical writing experience, must be able to provide samples
- Experienced with producing non-technical product level documentation such as product features, roadmap etc. must be able to provide samples
- Knowledge with latest version of Drupal backend and Core (Samples required)
- Basic understanding of UX Changes and Responsive design
- Have an understanding of Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or other related disciplines, or equivalent.
- 6+ years of proven experience in writing proposals.
- Understand and explain complex technical concepts.
- Previous experience in conducting interviews and creating strategies
- Write clear and concise proposals.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- Work to tight deadlines.
- An understanding of the IT sales process.
- Experience in the IT industry proposal writing software, such as MS Word, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, or Adobe Photoshop.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office or Google Docs.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- A positive attitude
Job Responsibilities and Functions
- Proposal Writing
- Responses to RFPs
- Content Management for Proposal Responses
- Research companies, non-profits, RFPs, and grants
- Self-Manages to find proposal opportunities
- Interviews and communicates with technical team and/or subject matter experts to when needed to ensure that work is scoped correctly
- Responsible for complying with RFP requirements
- Write documents that help with business development
- Edit written documents in a professional and credible manner
- Conduct interviews with key stakeholders as needed
- Help with reviewing products, services, and project ideas
- Help create strategies that help with the proposal development
- Rewrite proposals according to feedback
- Do presentations
- Create project schedules
- Write copies with a consistent tone
- Organizational skills
- Work with coworkers such as graphic designers
- Create graphics and presentations
- Meet deadlines
Nice to Have
- Drupal Site Building Experience
- Wordpress Site Building Experience
- Experience with App Proposal Responses
- Hands on experience with website development
- Experience with the following languages/applications/frameworks: HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Bootstrap, AJAX, XML, JSON, Web-Services, PHP, MySQL
- Headless experience - frontend or backend, 3rd-party vendor and API integrations, RESTful best practices and API design
- Marketing Experience - SEO, Design, Branding
Performance Metrics
- $1MM+ Proposal awards per year
Top Skills
Ajax
Bootstrap
CSS3
Drupal
HTML5
Jquery
JSON
MySQL
PHP
XML
The Company
What We Do
Since 2012, Plan Left has worked closely
with many private, public, non-profit, and government
organizations to produce custom software, websites,
and high-performing marketing initiatives.
Our tailored, partnership-focused approach allows us
to integrate with teams of every size and
accommodate needs that scale from one-person,
part-time departments or organizations all the
way up to enterprise.
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