The Proposal Writer is responsible for crafting proposals, responding to RFPs, and collaborating with technical teams to scope projects. This role requires strong technical writing skills, the ability to conduct research, and knowledge of proposal development strategies.
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
- 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
- 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
- $1MM+ Proposal awards per year
Top Skills
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Photoshop
Ajax
Bootstrap
CSS3
Drupal
Google Docs
HTML5
Jquery
JSON
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Word
MS Office
MySQL
PHP
PowerPoint
XML
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