Hourly Proposal Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Revenue & Sales Operations role at arcetyp. Arlington · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $82,500–$122,759.
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What you'll do
- Lead proposals from pre-RFP planning through submission and final award
- Build compliance matrices, schedules, outlines, and writing plans for each response
- Run status tracking, data calls, and working sessions with technical and business development teams
- Draft and refine responses to RFPs, RFIs, sources sought notices, white papers, and capability statements
- Oversee final production, formatting, graphics, proofreading, file control, and client delivery
What you bring
- At least three years supporting or leading proposals, including federal government responses
- Strong Microsoft Word ability, especially Stylesheets, plus experience producing PDF and Excel support files
- Direct experience developing proposals for the federal government
- Clear organization, communication, customer service, and deadline-management skills
- Ability to work independently and contribute across functions on complex assignments
Who this fits
This role suits a self-directed proposal professional who can coordinate contributors, refine technical content, and manage deadline-driven submissions. You’ll work remotely by telework on project-based hourly assignments, with fixed-price work sometimes available. The listing says 1099 arrangements are acceptable and C2C may be workable.
From the employer
Arcetyp LLC is a growing small business that provides a broad range of consulting services to US Federal Government, US Military, and Commercial clients. Services include Management & IT Consulting, Program & Project Management, and Professional & Admin Services.
We are recruiting an experienced on-demand Proposal Manager to join our team. The proposal manager sets and manages proposal schedules, resources, plans, and progress monitoring. The proposal manager develops the proposal outline, compliance matrix, schedule, and writing plan. He/she obtains (or advises appropriate managers regarding the need for) proposal staffing and other resources. The proposal manager oversees the coordination of all proposal activities in a deadline-driven environment. Ideal to have some background in technology-intensive services. Must have a background in US government contracting. Work is remote via telework. Work is by project and hourly and sometimes fixed price. 1099 is fine and C2C may be workable.
POSITION DUTIES. Primary job functions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Coordinates with our principal proposal manager on assignments.
- Leads the proposal throughout the lifecycle from pre-RFP to final award.
- Must be able to refine content provided from section authors if needed.
- Track status of proposal generation & maintains schedules; organizes and leads internal collaborative meetings to include technical and business development teams to develop competitive proposal documents.
- Responsible for drafting and editing compliant templates and documents in response to RFPs, requests for information, sources sought, white papers, and requests for capabilities statements.
- Issue and track data calls with teammates and supporting partners.
- Interfaces with partners to ensure defined SOW and all RFP requirements are addressed.
- Coordinates with other involved departments to achieve proposal objectives in a timely manner and remains current on all amendments and modifications.
- Acts as production supervisor for proposals (e.g. word processing, graphics, proofreading, reproduction, printing, collation, and binding) of the final proposal, including in house hard and soft copies as required ensuring timely delivery to clients.
- Provides support to technical writers; assist in formatting, figure insertion, etc.
- Coordinate the insertion of draft changes from all team members for final text and graphics.
- Maintains electronic files supporting these responsibilities for shared accessibility and transparency.
- Will be called upon to draft smaller proposals cradle-to-grave for all content from existing corporate information as a first draft.
- Generates proposals in Microsoft Word with supporting files in other formats such as PDF and Excel.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE. Applicants MUST have this experience:
- 3+ years of experience in proposal support and/or proposal leadership.
- Extremely strong skills with Microsoft Word including use of Stylesheets.
- Proposal development for the federal government.
- Basic understanding of information technology is preferred.
- Self-motivator with demonstrated ability to work independently as well as a strong contributor in a cross functional team environment on complex projects.
- Strong and proven organizational skills.
- Ability to meet commitments and deadlines.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
COMPENSATION. Pay and benefits information for this position will be provided to interested candidates that apply. Arcetyp offers a package of compensation and benefits to full-time salaried employees.
Arcetyp is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we highly value diversity of our workforce. We accept resumes from all interested parties and consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual preference, personal appearance, family responsibility, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or physical disability, matriculation, political affiliation, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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