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Title: Senior Proposal Analyst Location: McLean, VA Type: Temporary Part-Time Workplace: hybrid Category: Administration Job Description: Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview): The Senior Proposal Analyst provides analytical, compliance, and content-integration leadership across federal proposal efforts, supporting pursuits from RFP release through submission. This role combines deep understanding of solicitation requirements with hands-on proposal development experience to ensure responses are compliant, well-structured, evaluator-focused, and on schedule. The Senior Proposal Analyst serves as a key execution partner to the Proposal Manager—owning compliance artifacts, contributing to narrative development, managing cross-volume consistency, and ensuring proposal content aligns to evaluation criteria and win strategy. What Your Day-To-Day Looks Like (Position Responsibilities): Proposal Analysis & Compliance · Analyze solicitation documents (RFPs, RFQs, RTOPs, RFIs), with emphasis on Sections L and M or agency-specific equivalents. · Develop and maintain compliance matrices, annotated outlines, and requirement traceability tools. · Identify compliance risks, gaps, and ambiguities and elevate them to proposal leadership. · Support interpretation of evaluation criteria and ensure proposal content is explicitly aligned. Proposal Development & Content Support · Contribute to writing and editing of proposal sections, including technical, management, staffing, transition, and past performance narratives, as assigned. · Translate capture strategy and win themes into evaluator-focused structure and messaging. · Ensure consistency in terminology, tone, and positioning across volumes and contributors. · Support integration of graphics, tables, and call-outs to reinforce key messages. Execution & Coordination Support · Support the Proposal Manager with proposal schedules, trackers, and daily execution oversight. · Coordinate inputs from writers, SMEs, volume leads, pricing, and contracts teams. · Track progress against deadlines and follow up on assigned actions and deliverables. Review & Quality Control · Support planning and execution of color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), including preparation of review materials. · Log, track, and help adjudicate review comments to ensure timely and accurate resolution. · Perform quality checks for completeness, clarity, consistency, and responsiveness prior to final submission. Process Improvement & Knowledge Management · Contribute to maintenance of proposal templates, checklists, and standard operating procedures. · Support development and curation of reusable proposal content and lessons learned. · Mentor junior proposal staff and support proposal process maturity. What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Requirements): · Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, English, Political Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience. · 5+ years of experience supporting federal proposal development in a GovCon environment. · Demonstrated experience with proposal compliance, Section L/M analysis, and requirement traceability. · Strong analytical, writing, and organizational skills. · Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint. Ideally, You Also Have (Preferred Qualifications): · Experience supporting DoD, DOJ, DHS, HHS, or other federal civilian agency proposals. · Familiarity with FAR/DFARS-based procurements, IDIQs, and task-order competitions. · Experience supporting large, multi-volume proposals and accelerated response timelines. · Prior experience acting as a lead analyst or deputy proposal manager.

• Develop functional and technical requirements; serve as a POC for Information Systems with security issues; • Prepare and update reports to ensure that the unit complies with mandated internal and external security reporting requirements, including Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) and Capital Planning; • Coordinate security program and system elements with the agency IT Program Managers by evaluating system environments for security requirements and controls including: IT Security Architecture, hardware, software, telecommunications, security trends, and associated threats and vulnerabilities; • Manage security controls to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of information; • Build security into the system development process and define security specifications to Support the acquisition of new systems; • Support System Owners or Program Officers on the review of system procurement requests to ensure that security has been considered and included; • Adhere to and implement system security controls that ensure the protection of Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) information using authentication techniques, encryption, firewalls, and access controls; • Complete Security Assessments; • Assist in the Assessment and Authorization process; • Create and/or update the System Security Plans and other ATO documentation; • Serve as an advisor in risk assessments of all systems and mitigate vulnerabilities; • Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to ensure that security controls are maintained over the life of IT systems • Assist the System Owner in the development, testing and maintenance of contingency plans, backup and storage procedures; • Document all procedures according to the organizations standards; • Audit and monitor application, system and security logs for security threats, vulnerabilities and suspicious activities; report suspicious activities to the agency Incident coordinator; • Monitor and coordinate patch management and scanning techniques for all unit systems; participate in identification and mitigation of all system vulnerabilities; • Support and facilitate the security awareness, training, and education program; and • Assist the Information System Security Manager (ISSM), or CISO in any other security related duties, as required.

• Collaborate in the development and articulation of strong value propositions for transformational initiatives – from process SME and S/4HANA perspectives • Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for developing and testing ERP functions associated with business operations. • Facilitate Explore workshops (solution architecting, requirements gathering) with business managers, client staff, and end-users to determine business and functional requirements • Review and/or perform design and configuration of SAP S/4HANA systems to meet client business requirements • Provide functional specifications for any required development. • Participate and assist in high level planning. • Conduct knowledge transfer and training of end-users, including sharing best practices • Provide leadership to junior systems analysts and client personnel assigned to projects

• Provide senior-level engineering support for enterprise procurement and financial applications (e.g., PRISM, Oracle-based systems). • Support application sustainment, configuration, patching, upgrades, and troubleshooting across middleware and application tiers. • Assist with workflows, interfaces, and integrations between procurement, financial, and enterprise systems. • Develop and maintain system architecture diagrams, engineering documentation, and operational runbooks. • Administer and support **IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)** and **IBM MQ** across enterprise environments. • Deploy, configure, and maintain WebSphere and MQ workloads on **Linux-based platforms**, including Azure-hosted environments. • Configure clustering, failover, performance tuning, and secure messaging. • Support automation of middleware configuration and deployments using scripting or configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, shell scripting). • Support PRISM and similar enterprise systems across **AIX and Linux platforms**. • Perform system tuning, patching, remediation, and environment troubleshooting. • Lead or contribute to efforts supporting migration of enterprise middleware and applications from **AIX to Linux-based cloud environments** (e.g., lift-and-shift or phased modernization). • Identify and document migration risks, dependencies, and operational impacts; contribute to migration planning, runbooks, and post-migration stabilization. • Support Oracle-based enterprise applications and databases integrated with middleware platforms. • Develop and maintain **PL/SQL packages, database automation, and integrations** supporting procurement and financial workflows. • Support Oracle APEX-based user interfaces, dashboards, and APIs as needed. • Collaborate with database and functional teams to ensure reliable integration with Oracle Financial systems. • Support deployment and operation of enterprise middleware and applications in **Azure-hosted Linux environments**. • Collaborate with cloud, DevOps, and security teams on hybrid hosting strategies spanning USDA data centers and commercial cloud platforms. • Support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and configuration management related to middleware and application deployments. • Ensure systems comply with **FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53**, and USDA OCIO security requirements. • Support ATO processes, security assessments, remediation activities, and audits. • Implement and support secure integration patterns (TLS, certificates, LDAP/SSO, RBAC). • Collaborate with OCP, OCIO, developers, architects, security teams, and operations staff. • Provide senior-level engineering recommendations, risk assessments, diagrams, SOPs, and onboarding documentation. • Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and change control processes.

• Provide engineering support for enterprise procurement and financial applications (e.g., PRISM, Oracle-based systems). • Assist with system sustainment activities including configuration, patching, upgrades, and troubleshooting. • Support application workflows, interfaces, and integrations with USDA financial systems. • Develop and maintain system documentation, diagrams, and operational procedures. • Administer and support IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM MQ in enterprise environments. • Deploy, configure, and maintain WebSphere and MQ workloads on Linux-based platforms. • Support clustering, failover configurations, performance tuning, and secure messaging. • Assist with middleware automation using scripting and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, shell scripting). • Support PRISM and similar enterprise systems across AIX and Linux environments. • Perform system tuning, patching, remediation, and environment troubleshooting. • Participate in efforts supporting the migration of PRISM and related middleware from AIX to Linux-based Azure environments. • Support Oracle-based enterprise applications and databases integrated with middleware platforms. • Assist with PL/SQL development, database automation, and operational support. • Support Oracle APEX-based components, dashboards, and APIs as needed. • Collaborate with OCP, OCIO, developers, architects, security teams, and operations staff. • Provide engineering inputs, documentation, SOPs, and onboarding materials. • Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and change control processes.