Senior Federal Proposal Manager — Remote

Bodwe Professional Services, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bodwé Professional Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Proposal Manager to own the full lifecycle of federal proposals, from RFP through submission. You will partner with the Capture team, SMEs, and staff to ensure compliant, high-quality content, pricing, graphics, and QA of all documents.

The role requires 7–10 years in federal proposals, people management, and strong writing/editing skills. Remote work with occasional travel to headquarters and client sites is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, English, Journalism, Communications, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of federal proposal experience.
• Minimum of 1 year of people management experience.
• Experience working with SF1449’s.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent organizational abilities, and technical skills.
• Understanding of FAR/RFO and how to interpret and apply them to solicitation and deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to interact in a cooperative and effective manner.
• Self-motivated, able to multi-task, ability to work independently, take initiative, set priorities, and see projects through to completion.
• Strong service orientation.
• Ability to work with technical SMEs.
• Experience working on a Federal Capture Team.
• Preferred: Prior experience working with a Tribal entity.
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a Real ID or Passport in order to undergo commercial airfare travel.
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Manages highly complex RFPs and IDIQs.
• Develops pre-proposal tools and documentation including compliance matrices, proposal outlines; assigns pre-proposal activities and reviews to in-house SMEs, and teaming partners.
• Write or initiate development of content for proposals (such as technical approach, staffing plan, past performance, resumes, etc.) and other promotional materials or client deliverables.
• Create other proposal elements (i.e., graphics, charts, tables, appendices) in support of proposal development.
• Follow and manage Shipley process for proposal color team reviews.
• Coordinate and communicate clear requirements to the Graphic Designer for compelling graphics for proposals.
• Coordinate with decentralized staff to solicit feedback and content for proposals.
• Enhance text received from other members of the team as needed.
• Conduct research as needed into federal clients, teaming partners, and competitors to enhance our competitive advantage.
• Write, edit or re-write portions of technical documents to improve flow, organization, and content.
• Understand bid strategies as they evolve; develop methods for integrating/capturing the final bid strategy in the proposal.
• Ensure proposal outline/formatting complies with solicitation requirements.
• Own final document from a format, compliance, and quality standpoint
• Develop and maintain cloud content library for proposal materials and ensure the information is organized and current, developing an appropriate metadata tagging taxonomy to help content contributors find relevant content easily and quickly.
• Maintain past performance library and ensure that past performance templates remain current in close coordination with delivery project leads.
• Participate in other business development requirements such as opportunity tracking, pipeline management, and staff training on proposal methodology.
• Be highly organized and administer activities such as calendar development, scheduling meetings, consolidating feedback, and developing weekly communications on key opportunities.

Skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Organizational skills

Multi-tasking

Self-motivated

Team leadership

FAR/RFO understanding

Ability to work with SMEs

Federal Capture Team experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, English, Journalism, Communications, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe Creative Cloud

GovWin

Job description

Bodwé Professional Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Proposal Manager to own the full lifecycle of federal proposals, from RFP through submission. You will partner with the Capture team, SMEs, and staff to ensure compliant, high-quality content, pricing, graphics, and QA of all documents.

The role requires 7–10 years in federal proposals, people management, and strong writing/editing skills. Remote work with occasional travel to headquarters and client sites is expected.