Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a talented Proposal Writer, Team Lead to lead our team in Colorado Springs, CO, or Beavercreek, OH. This high-impact position will create compliant, responsive, and compelling documents to answer Government solicitations including white papers, sources sought, Requests for Information (RFI), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with minimal guidance.

• Lead Proposal Writing Team, including supervising other proposal writers and ensuring quality product development
• Collaborate with other Proposal and Growth Team leadership to refine proposal writing processes and procedures
• Participate in hiring process to support expansion of Proposal Team
• Assign proposal writing resources to support development of Request for Information/ Proposal (RFI/RFP) responses
• Collaborate with Operations Team leadership to plan, facilitate, and execute Writers on Worksite (WOW) sessions
• Work with Growth Team to update and maintain Past Performance repository
• Author all sections of a solicitation (Management, Technical, Past Performance, and Corporate Experience)
• Conduct technical edits of other’s work
• Participate as an author and reviewer in design sessions, working sessions, and color reviews to provide critical feedback to others and accept critiques of your own work to improve responses
• Create compliant, responsive, and compelling documents to answer Government solicitations including white papers, sources sought, Requests for Information (RFI), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with minimal guidance
• Collaborate with proposal team members such as the proposal manager, capture manager, and graphic artist to design a compliant and compelling proposal solution, outline, and response
• Collaborate with operations team members, project managers, and Subject Matter Experts (SME) and actively participate in the overall solutioning process
• Extract information from Subject Matter Experts (SME) across a variety of highly technical subjects to meet the requirements of the solicitation, and put together a cohesive technical response (This ability includes interviewing; creating, compiling, and analyzing electronic data calls; and data mining from existing material)
• Analyze and extract requirements from RFP and other solicitation documents such as Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOW), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) to ensure compliance
• Creatively connect Apogee’s past experience with new approaches in order to effectively address customer requirements or hot buttons
• Act as a volume lead and assign deadlines, review work, and be responsible for overall content submitted by other authors
• Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information during meetings
• Maintain quality results by using templates and following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone
• Improve proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and boilerplate information. Implement improvements during future efforts.

Minimum Experience:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen 
Clearance: Secret
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Years of Experience: 10+ years of experience supporting DoD and/or other Government agency proposal efforts
Additional Experience: Working knowledge and experience implementing the Shipley Proposal process

Preferred Qualifications:
Certifications: APMP Foundation-level certification or understanding and experience applying Shipley methodology to proposal writing

Additional Information
Location:  Beavercreek, OH or Colorado Springs, CO
On-site/Hybrid/Remote (only list one of the three upon creating a new job): Hybrid
Travel: Up to 10%