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Senior Technical Writer
Location
Virginia
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Technical Writer
BizFirst LLC
• Lead writing and editing workstreams for RFP, RFI, subcontractor capability, and related proposal documents supporting the Navy Marketing & Advertising Program. • Interpret solicitation language, RFI/RFP instructions, performance requirements, evaluation factors, and compliance requirements; convert them into clear document plans and response outlines. • Write and edit technical, management, staffing, quality, compliance, past performance, case study, and executive summary content across technical and operational workstreams. • Keep proposal teams aligned through annotated outlines, compliance matrices, content plans, review cycles, comment adjudication, version control, and final quality checks. • Serve as the lead writer and editor for assigned RFP/RFI, subcontractor response, and program documentation efforts; provide day-to-day direction and quality review for junior writers, coordinators, and contributors. • Lead planning, development, editing, and production of proposal volumes, RFI responses, capability narratives, technical approaches, management approaches, resumes, past performance materials, case studies, plans, reports, briefings, and other program artifacts. • Analyze solicitation instructions, performance work statement requirements, evaluation criteria, page limits, formatting rules, compliance requirements, and response templates to ensure documents are complete and responsive. • Develop and maintain annotated outlines, compliance matrices, style guides, section templates, content trackers, review packages, reusable content, acronym lists, and content libraries. • Facilitate interviews and working sessions with SMEs and teaming partners across websites and applications, cybersecurity, CRM/Salesforce, lead tracking, dashboards, APIs, call center/SMS, electronic fulfillment, field events, lead nurturing, digital prospecting, pricing, staffing, and operations. • Write and edit clear, accurate, persuasive content aligned with win themes, differentiators, evaluation factors, program outcomes, and customer requirements. • Translate technical and operational inputs into plain-language proposal content without overstating qualifications or changing the meaning of SME contributions. • Incorporate graphics, tables, callout text, references, workflow descriptions, compliance language, and other visual elements that help evaluators understand the proposed approach. • Manage document schedules, review cycles, version control, comment adjudication, quality checks, and final production steps to support on-time delivery. • Coordinate with capture, proposal, technical, operations, pricing, staffing, and partner teams to resolve content gaps and keep sections moving. • Ensure documents meet applicable confidentiality, governance, records management, information protection, and proposal-sensitive handling requirements. • Support lessons learned, content archiving, content-library improvements, and process improvements after submissions or major deliverables.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of technical writing, editing, proposal writing, or federal proposal/program documentation experience, including experience supporting complex federal solicitations, RFIs, task order responses, or contract deliverables.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a lead writer, senior editor, volume lead, proposal content lead, or comparable role responsible for organizing inputs and producing compliant response content.
- Strong understanding of federal proposal development, including solicitation instructions, evaluation factors, compliance matrices, annotated outlines, review cycles, technical and management volumes, staffing narratives, resumes, and past performance materials.
- Ability to interview technical and operational SMEs and translate complex inputs into clear content for executive, evaluator, customer, partner, and program audiences.
- Ability to understand and write about program content at a proposal level, including websites/applications, CRM/data, cybersecurity and data protection concepts, lead tracking, recruiting or marketing operations, contact center operations, analytics, fulfillment, field events, and business processes.
- Exceptional writing, editing, interviewing, organization, deadline management, comment adjudication, quality-control, and collaboration skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint/Teams, Adobe Acrobat, and document collaboration/version-control workflows.
- Ability to handle sensitive or proposal-confidential information appropriately and work effectively in a remote, fast-moving proposal environment.
- U.S. citizenship.
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