• Oversee the Meadows Institute’s RFP capture, proposal development, and funding lifecycle workflows, ensuring disciplined coordination from opportunity identification through submission and post-award stewardship. • Coordinate early-stage RFP capture activities, including requirements analysis, timeline development, role clarity, and go/no-go support, in close partnership with program teams and Strategic Growth leadership. • Provide oversight to ensure proposals, service contracts, and related deliverables are completed on time, at high quality, and in alignment with institutional priorities. • Oversee post-award funding lifecycle activities, including reporting, renewals, and stewardship deliverables, to ensure funder requirements are met and obligations are fulfilled reliably. • Lead and manage a team of Funding Lifecycle Managers and a Senior Editor that work in close partnership with program teams and major gift officers, creating consistent, trusted working relationships. • Set clear expectations, workflows, and performance standards for the team, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Work closely with program team leads to support the translation of programmatic expertise into clear, compelling proposals and funding reports. • Routinely assess RFP capture, proposal development, and funding lifecycle workflows to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement. • Partner with the SVP of Strategic Growth to recommend refinements to workflows, templates, roles, and service models as the Strategic Growth function evolves. • Ensure proposals, reports, and funding-related deliverables reflect consistent messaging, structure, and quality across the Institute. • Monitor proposal volume, RFP activity, deadlines, team capacity, and post-award obligations.

• Lead the administrative and organizational aspects of the proposal development process for federal, state, and local government opportunities. • Work closely with Capture Managers, Proposal Managers, and the Proposal Production Team to ensure compliance with Request for Proposal (RFP) requirements. • Analyze RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs, and develop compliance matrices, annotated outlines, and structured templates. • Maintain strict document version control and ensure compliance throughout the proposal lifecycle. • Coordinate color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), production phases, and submission deadlines. • Contribute to and monitor proposal schedules to ensure workflows align with submission due dates. • Ensure adherence to page limits, template standards, branding requirements, and corporate document style guides. • Manage final quality checks, PDF optimization, and file naming conventions.

• The Senior Proposal Manager will collaborate with program, BD, solutions, pricing, and functional personnel to provide proposal leadership as part of a proposal leadership team with the Solution Architect, Capture Manager, and senior business leadership. • Working in concert with BD, Capture, and Operations resources, the ideal candidate will be comfortable collaborating as part of a proposal leadership team to produce a high quality, compliant, and responsive proposal. • Exceptional communication, organizational, and strategic-thinking skills are vital to this position. • Lead and manage the overall proposal development process for assigned opportunities • Interpret technical and management requirements of Federal Government solicitations and provide guidance to proposal teams (in collaboration with contracts and pricing leads) • Develop proposal outlines according to requirements; facilitate and lead relevant proposal sessions • Provide training as necessary to team members on the proposal process, review process, and/or writing process and best practices • Iteratively review content and provide feedback to authors • Manage team members to meet proposal milestones and deadlines • Maintain a forward-leaning posture that is always willing to wear extra hats as needed to help the team submit compliant, concise, and compelling bids

• Lead the end-to-end development of proposals in response to U.S. federal government solicitations (e.g., RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, task orders, GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs) • Partner with presales/capture teams using tools like Deltek GovWin, SAM.gov, USAspending.gov, GovTribe, FPDS, eBuy, and others to identify opportunities, qualify them, and manage compliant, compelling proposal submissions • Ensure all federal requirements and certifications (e.g., 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB) are understood and addressed in responses