Role Description The Senior Proposal and Marketing Specialist supports pursuit of new business, from pre-solicitation through pursuit and proposal development. They are tactical and are responsible for sourcing, compiling and editing responses for proposals. They work in collaboration with subject matter experts to ensure the proposal addresses all the RFP requirements and is delivered before the deadline. They work in a collaborative team environment to drive the growth strategy of the Company. - Prepares strategic quality responses to RFPs, RFQs, ITTs and EOIs - Prepares corporate-level and market sector content including firm information, project experience and team resumes - Prepares and designs marketing materials for award submissions, exhibits, and company participation in promotional events, grand openings, conventions, seminars, and community/industry related events - Prepares presentations, brochures, advertisements, announcements and other promotional tools - Manages the proposal response process from receipt RFP to the printing and assembly of the final product to ensure a quality on-time submission - Defines and manages the proposal response plan, schedule, and internal communications associated with the proposal development including follow-up with the contributors Qualifications - Have successfully completed related post-secondary education in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations or Journalism - Advanced technical proficiency with Adobe Creative Suites including InDesign and Photoshop - Technical proficiency with MS Office Suite; working knowledge of OpenAsset preferred but not required - Excellent business writing, editing and proofreading skills - Eye for design and layout - Rigorous attention to detail - Excellent time management skills Requirements - 8+ years of experience in proposal development - Demonstrated experience leading and supporting PSPC and Defence Construction Canada (DCC) proposals, including strong knowledge of federal procurement processes, compliance requirements, and evaluation criteria - Proven experience contributing to or leading design-build proposals, collaborating with contractors, subconsultants, and multidisciplinary teams - Experience leading proposal meetings, including kickoff, coordination, and review sessions, facilitating input from internal teams and external partners Benefits - Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $115,000.00 / annually Company Description NORR is a global team of 800 architects, engineers, planners, and interior designers creating design strategies and solutions that express the unique vision of every project. Driven by a common purpose with our clients and partners, we share ideas to create and innovate, bringing people, design, and technologies together to think bigger and act bolder. Our story began in 1938 and has evolved into an employee-owned, fully integrated firm committed to sustainable development goals across 13 market sectors in Canada, the US, and UK. Design excellence continues to guide everything we do.

Role Description The Web Content Designer will drive the State's initiatives for accessibility optimization. Responsibilities include: - Conduct reviews and implement improvements to digital products, services, and processes to ensure the State is meeting the highest standards of accessibility compliance. - Develop and lead a practice of inclusionary methodologies and integrate these enterprise standards across State teams. - Assist the development of new State accessibility policies, aligning with regulatory requirements and the experiential needs of external users. Main responsibilities are broken down into seven areas: Assessment - Audit current State systems, internal processes, and customer-facing assets to find accessibility issues, and create prioritization models and project plans for addressing. - Clearly summarize accessibility findings and provide recommendations for remediation, including code-level recommendations and solutions. - Evaluate new vendor products for compliance with accessibility standards, and help improve the State procurement process for technology and digital services. - Utilize and interpret multiple sources of research data to make credible recommendations for accessibility improvements. Documentation - Document current levels of State compliance, rank the compliance level against standardized benchmarks, and create reports that identify State gaps and violations by platform, service, process, asset type, and customer journey touchpoints. - Align with leadership and State accessibility advocates to help define and maintain the roadmap, vision, and strategy for enterprise digital accessibility. Strategy & Development - Serve as the product owner of accessibility strategies, enterprise standards, and procedures for meeting inclusionary compliance standards. - Support accessibility initiatives that foster environments where everyone can thrive, including employees along the full range of neurodiversity. - Collaborate with internal and external partners to identify needs and incorporate best practice policies for accessibility. - Work with Legal and Legislative teams to align accessibility guidance with State regulatory policies. - Assist project teams with management activities related to accessibility requirements (i.e., tracking deliverables and tasks, documentation, asset/artifact management, etc.). - Develop a process for identifying business need around translated assets, help stakeholders engage with translation efforts and provide guidance for asset governance. - Provide compliance guidance for the creation of visual media assets, and assist in the creation of these assets as assigned. Test/QA - Conduct and execute routine usability and accessibility checks for state websites and online assets. - Integrate testing policies for meeting State accessibility standards on all product and service development, including development from external vendors. Communication - Serve as an effective spokesperson and advocate for digital accessibility. - Work with CTDS leadership to broadly champion digital accessibility. - Conduct regular outreach as well as ad-hoc communications support for state teams around accessibility practices. - Provide success metrics and KPI reporting to stakeholders and identify areas of improvement and challenges from optimization efforts. - Keep leadership apprised of progress, challenges, and outcomes related to the efforts of State accessibility initiatives. - Establish and maintain effective relationships across IT teams, business teams, legal teams, legislators, and vendors. Training - Conduct accessibility trainings addressing various stakeholder needs, develop training materials for teams, and serve as an accessibility asset point of contact. - Shape enterprise accessibility guidance with cross-functional teams and promote its importance through leadership, coaching, and communities of practice. - Develop and implement ongoing accessibility program activities and share-outs for business stakeholders and vendors to support the State's evangelization of inclusionary design. Maintaining - Provide enterprise governance of accessibility requirements, along with consistent oversight, accountability, and tactical support to keep the State in regulatory compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. - Establish relationships between State and external customers to ensure accessibility needs are consistently surfaced and that State options are continually improved upon based on advances in technology. - Contribute content on accessibility standards for current State guidebooks on Design, Research, Content, Development, Data, and Technology to consistently improve enterprise standards. - Stay on top of the latest advances in WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 regulations and best practices, and create plans/processes for efficient optimization of State accessibility standards. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience assessing and improving digital materials and services (websites, digital interfaces, online transaction flows, PDFs, etc.) to comply with regulatory accessibility standards (WCAG, ADA, Section 508) - specifically WCAG 2.1 AA. - 5+ years of experience conducting QA activities on systems and products: analyzing needs, testing process flows, planning service improvements, assessing test data, and implementing accessibility solutions. - 2+ years of product or project owner experience, working collaboratively with teams to improve products and services using digital accessibility technologies, policies, and best practices. - 2+ years of experience with language translation efforts, including the oversight and maintenance of accessibility standards around translation services - both machine and manual. - Expertise in auditing systems and products to find accessibility issues, providing guidance for mitigating issues, and improving accessibility knowledge and practices within internal teams. - Strong expertise in assistive technology tools such as JAWS, NVADA, Dragon, Fusion, deque, Wave, ZoomText. - Demonstrated proficiency with applying user-centered design (UCD) methodologies to effectively solve accessibility design problems. - Strong understanding of responsive web design principles, techniques, and frameworks. - Experience assessing and mitigating accessibility issues on internal business processes, including case management and data collection processes. - Experience creating or contributing to the development of an accessibility policy for a business or institution. - Demonstrated experience establishing governance standards and processes to support efficient maintenance of accessibility efforts. - Creative out-of-the-box thinking to provide solution-oriented guidance for optimizing services, using the latest digital accessibility techniques and tools. - Can work both independently and collaboratively to advance accessibility standards in the UX, content, research, development, and technology spaces. - Experience as a mentor or coach for product teams to promote accessibility-focused development within an agile system. - Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to clearly present ideas and recommendations as well as receive and address challenges to your guidance. - Proficient with KPI and success metric development, along with the ability to communicate the impact of accessibility efforts to stakeholders. - Expert in facilitating the remediation of accessibility issues with little guidance. - Strong ability to create and maintain documentation and best practice methodologies across multiple systems and functional areas. - Ability to explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders and communicate their implication on systems, processes, projects, and services. Preferred Skills & Qualifications - Bachelor's degree is required. - A total of 5 years of experience working in the domain of accessibility optimization, with 2 years of highly relevant professional experience in Accessibility and Inclusion-based policy compliance. - 2+ years of experience in assessing and optimizing digital assets for accessibility needs, including websites, visual media, communication tools, online applications, documents, and video conferencing tools. - Experience with WebAIM services and training. - Strong written and oral communication skills, and responsiveness to leadership and stakeholder requests. - Strong organizational skills and experience with project management software, along with project processes and best practices. - Experience in balancing a diverse workload of projects, with varying complexities and unique needs. - Excellent time management skills, with an ability to lay out clear project goals, timelines, and target dates. - Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to reach program goals and meet dynamic business objectives. - Ability to set rigid practices for accessibility optimization solutions, while maintaining flexibility for ad-hoc needs. - Strong proficiency with MS Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Zoom. Other Desired Skills - Degree in Human Computer Interaction, UX Design, Psychology, Instructional Design, or Computer Science. - Experience in developing or designing inclusionary products or services in web applications, using standard technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery). - Experience in accessibility compliance for chatbots and other customer communication tools. - Experience in accessibility compliance for analog formats like Word, Powerpoint, and print marketing assets. - Experience with digital forms and documents remediation to meet accessibility standards. - Proficiency with Adobe XD, Jira/Confluence, Sitecore, and Salesforce. - Knowledge of basic research methods and tools, and data visualization tools. Desired Certifications - IAAP certification (CPACC, WAS, etc.). - PMP certification. - DHS Trusted Tester certification.

Role Description SNHU is looking for a motivated, reliable, and creative individual with an interest in content creation. As a content marketing assistant, you will work closely with the content marketing team to accomplish a variety of tasks that support a multi-channel publish schedule. This is a 16-week writing-intensive position that’s ideal for a master’s level student, consisting of 10-15 hours per week on average. This position requires the selected candidate to work remotely, although there may be opportunities for a hybrid schedule for candidates within commuting distance of Manchester, New Hampshire. Primary duties will be geared toward what's needed to produce informative articles, including: - Researching, writing, and editing articles about a range of academic and career topics for the SNHU blog and other marketing channels, following the university’s voice, tone, and brand guidelines. - Learning about content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), and applying your growing knowledge to new and existing content. - Interviewing sources with questions you developed based on topic research and content brief requirements. - Assisting the content team with various other tasks related to the daily publication process, with an opportunity to get involved in additional types of creative work. Qualifications - Enrollment in a writing, marketing, communication or related undergraduate or graduate program at SNHU, either online or on campus. - Work study as part of financial aid package. - Interest and/or experience in writing for marketing. - Proficiency in English language. - Ability to submit writing samples. Requirements - Develop communication skills, both written and verbal, through professional interactions with students, staff, and/or faculty. - Improve critical thinking and problem solving through daily assignments and receiving regular feedback. - Practice professionalism in a remote workplace through video calls, written messages, and general accountability. - Strengthen teamwork skills by collaborating with others in the department and beyond to accomplish tasks. Work Schedule - Remote position. - Average of 10-15 hours per week for 16 weeks. - Schedule varies and can be customized with supervisor. - Must be available for 1-2 virtual calls per week during standard business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. Compensation The hourly pay range for this position is $13.00 - $15.00. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience and internal equity, in addition to relevant business considerations.

Role Description This role’s purpose is to generate high-quality content that converts Applause’s audience, resulting in at least $2m in new sales pipeline and $900,000 in ARR contribution from content channels. The Sr. Content Marketing Manager will own all content initiatives, including: - Ads - Short- and long-form copy (blogs, ebooks, infographics, etc.) - Thought leadership presentations - SEO and AEO strategy This person will work closely with the Director of Marketing to define and execute our content marketing strategy. Responsibilities: - Own the content calendar from beginning to end, including quarterly editorial planning - Plan, organize, execute, and publish content at a rapid pace to support all company initiatives - Work with our creative team to execute best-in-class digital assets (videos, case studies, ebooks, etc.) for use in demand generation campaigns, sales enablement, and event strategies - Conduct primary and secondary research and synthesize data into compelling content deliverables - Define and execute Applause’s thought leadership strategy - Be the driving force behind audience personas, research, and topic selection - When needed, cultivate an on-demand team of freelancers & agencies, manage all relationships and deadlines Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in content marketing for a US-based B2B SaaS or Home Services company - Incredible content writing & editing chops, with a multi-disciplinary skillset in writing, video, and design - Ability to adapt and find creative solutions to unforeseen challenges - Strong work ethic and discipline - Effective in a remote setup with a stable 50+ Mbps internet connection Benefits - 100% remote w/ no office mandate - Earned PTO - 20 official company holidays - Health care - Life insurance - Amazing colleagues - Energetic culture that is positive and celebrates together - Inspiring mission & software product - Ability to grow your career in a fast-growing tech startup Company Description Applause is a SaaS start-up founded by experienced entrepreneurs and backed by the best VCs in Silicon Slopes. We’re focused on helping companies supercharge their team’s performance so they can win more lifelong customers.