Proposal Technical Writer

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.

Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.

Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.

IGS is currently recruiting a remote Proposal Technical Writer to support our work.

Assignment of Work and Travel:

This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access IGS systems and therein use approved IGS provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.

The Proposal Technical Writer will manage compliant, high quality proposal content by synthesizing technical, operational, and business inputs into clear, compelling narratives. The Proposal Technical Writer will collaborate closely with stakeholders, SMEs, and leadership to align responses with win strategies, themes, and discriminators while meeting strict solicitation requirements and deadlines and to deliver competitive and well-coordinated submissions.

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):

• Develop proposal content by assembling and integrating information including project nature, objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation
• Ensures that sections developed are compliant with solicitation requirements and incorporate strategies, win themes, and discriminators
• Interact with Business Units, Proposal Manager, Subject Matter Experts, and Teaming Partners to obtain content necessary to draft compelling proposal sections
• Interview SMEs, consultants, capture managers, and other proposal team members to obtain information for proposals and then independently develop technically clear and compelling proposal content
• Provide insight on proposal content and where we can emphasize or incorporate strengths and benefits to improve responses
• Organize and carry out multiple tasks simultaneously under tight/changing deadlines
• Participate in daily stand-up calls, on live bids, detailing status of the proposal sections for which the writer is responsible, and identify any issues or resource requirements
• Participate "hands on" in all phases of the proposal development process including gate reviews, win strategy, win themes/discriminators, outlines and compliance matrices, color reviews, writing and editing, graphic design, desktop publishing, document production, and packaging and delivering
• Participate in strategy/solutioning sessions to develop winning approaches
• Assist in proposal graphic conceptualization and creation, as needed
• Support drafting/development of technical, past performance, staffing plans, formatting of resumes, and management narratives for large scale, complex, strategic proposals
• Prepare past performance questionnaires to be completed by customers
• Support corporate writing and editing efforts as needed (marketing materials, website content, etc.)
• Maintain and update SharePoint repositories with re-use content and past writing
• Ensure proposal content is 508 compliant, when necessary
• Other duties as assigned