Remote Senior Federal Proposal Writer (1099)

Red Cell Partners, LLC.; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 193,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth path

Employer-paid health care

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Professional development

401K / FSA / equity

Mental health benefits

Other company perks

Job summary

Red Cell Federal seeks a Senior Federal Proposal Writer (1099) to craft clear, persuasive, and compliant responses to federal solicitations. You’ll transform capture strategy and technical input into strong proposal content for government programs.

You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team and must cover the entire proposal lifecycle under tight deadlines while maintaining a consistent voice across multi-author submissions.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of federal proposal-writing experience in government contracting.
• Experience with Shipley or a similar proposal-development process.
• Strong knowledge of FAR/DFARS concepts, Sections L and M, and evaluation criteria.
• A track record of contributing to successful federal civilian or defense proposals.
• Ability to understand and explain complex topics such as AI/ML, autonomy, cybersecurity, software platforms, defense hardware, advanced communications, and health technology.
• Strong interviewing, writing, editing, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to protect sensitive company, customer, partner, and procurement information.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Independent-contractor business setup and the ability to provide a W-9.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit technical approaches, management and staffing plans, transition plans, past performance, executive summaries, white papers, solution briefs, and other response content.
• Review solicitations, SOWs, PWSs, instructions, and evaluation criteria, including Sections L and M.
• Build compliant outlines, storyboards, content plans, and compliance matrices.
• Interview SMEs, program managers, key personnel, and product leaders; turn their input into clear proposal text.
• Apply capture strategy, customer priorities, win themes, discriminators, benefits, and proof points.
• Address review comments and produce clean, submission-ready revisions on tight deadlines.
• Maintain a consistent voice and message across multi-author responses.
• Maintain reusable past-performance, corporate-experience, management, and technical content.
• Flag missing inputs, compliance gaps, conflicting guidance, and schedule risks early.

Skills

Federal proposal writing

Shipley process

FAR/DFARS knowledge

Defense/civilian proposals

AI/ML, cyber, health tech expl.

Interviewing & writing skills

Confidential information handling

U.S. citizenship

Independent contractor / W-9 setup

Job description

Red Cell Federal seeks a Senior Federal Proposal Writer (1099) to craft clear, persuasive, and compliant responses to federal solicitations. You’ll transform capture strategy and technical input into strong proposal content for government programs.

You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team and must cover the entire proposal lifecycle under tight deadlines while maintaining a consistent voice across multi-author submissions.