Proposal Specialist

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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.

 

Job Description:

How You Will Make a Difference

• Perform detailed analysis of solicitation documents to assess requirements, and build compliance matrices, schedules, and annotated outlines.
• Interact with capture team members and subject matter experts (SMEs) to guide proposal development efforts through the Business Acquisition Process (BAP).
• Collaborate with graphics and desktop publishing teams to tailor templates for proposal compliance, look and feel, and layout standards.
• Review proposal drafts and final documents for compliance, responsiveness, thoroughness, accuracy, and quality.
• Establish a print production schedule and resource plan to ensure required proposal documents are produced properly and delivered on time.
• Populate and maintain SharePoint and Microsoft Teams libraries.
• Facilitate proposal kick-off meetings, milestone meetings, color reviews (e.g., pink, red, gold) and recovery periods to ensure quality deliverables.
• Write non-technical proposal content (e.g., resumes, past performance) and tailors content written by SMEs to develop cohesive, clear, and persuasive submissions.
• Coordinate coaching activities for the interview/oral phase of pursuits.
• Research, analyze, and synthesize information from multiple sources (e.g., SMEs and previous proposals).
• Ensure dual compliance checks (from operations and proposal organization) are completed and implemented.
• Contribute to and maintain Salesforce opportunity record (CRM) for accuracy and completeness.
• Perform closeout activities, initiate the lessons learned process, and archive files.
• Provides training and mentorship to proposal coordinators.

What You Bring to the Table

We’re looking for someone with strong, proven skills in the following areas:

• Strong organizational, planning, time management, and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Detail oriented with the ability to multi-task and work against strict deadlines
• Organization, conceptual thinking, and attention to detail
• Customer service with a “get to yes” approach and mentality
• Managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple submittals
• Ability to inspire outstanding work from team members with a range of experience and technical abilities in the development of proposal and task order responses
• Proficient using software such as Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, MS Teams and Salesforce.

What We Need from You (REQUIRED)

• US citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree
• 6+ years of managing and writing/editing multi-volume proposals and speed of light task order cycles that have resulted in Federal contract awards with values of more than $50M
• In-depth understanding of how to develop compelling and compliant Government RFI, RFP, and RFQ responses
• Capable of facilitating strategy and storyboarding sessions
• Experience developing proposal responses that include orals slides and video or live presentation
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability and willingness to travel 20-30% of the year

These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have

• TS/SCI clearance
• Experience working in a SCIF environment

What You Will Get from Us

• Flexible work schedule
• A fun, supportive, and collaborative team
• Employee Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(K) retirement program
• Short- and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave
• Sick leave, vacation, and holiday pay
• Tuition reimbursement

Education/Experience

• Bachelor degree and typically 8+ years of diversified experience, primarily within the business development realm of a large, multinational company. 

Minimum Clearance Desired to Start

• Top Secret/SCI

This position is part of our Corporate team.

As a Proposal Specialist, you’ll champion the development and delivery of our most strategic proposals and task orders. You’ll be joining the Enterprise Proposal Operations team and work collaboratively with leadership, management, subject matter experts, creatives, and capture teams to win new business. This position will require you to adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment and work on multiple assignments in tandem, with overlapping schedules.

Simply put, we’re looking for a winner to drive our pursuit lifecycle, from kick-off to final submittal. We can’t wait to meet you.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.​

This position is part of our Corporate team.

For over 80 years, Parsons Corporation, has shaped the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. Our employees work in a close-knit team environment to find new, innovative ways to deliver smart solutions that are used and valued by customers around the world. By combining unique technologies with deep domain expertise across cybersecurity, missile defense, space, connected infrastructure, transportation, smart cities, and more, we're providing tomorrow's solutions today.

Salary Range: $42.50 - $74.38

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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