Proposal Specialist

Role Description

The AvantGarde, LLC (AG) Proposal/Capture Specialist provides a wide variety of business development support, including playing a lead role in the coordination of proposals, contributing to proposal writing in collaboration with AGs senior managers and SMEs and researching active business opportunities in the federal, state, and local governments. This position has potential for 100% remote schedule working out of the employee's home office upon approval from COO. Position flexibility to work 24-40 hrs per week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• · Support the full capture lifecycle, from opportunity identification through bid/no-bid decisions, strategy development, teaming partnerships, pricing assumptions, and proposal execution.
• · Serve as proposal coordinator working closely with lead BD senior manager from RFP or RFI release through post- submittal. Coordination involves managing the engagement and process of AG sub partners.
• · Contribute to the preparation of proposals by writing proposal content, drafting past performances and resumes,
• creating graphics, and researching prior AG proposals to identify relevant content to incorporate into proposals.
• · Provide exceptional level of compliance and quality control for the proposal and proposal process; interpret solicitations to ensure that the proposal complies with all requirements; and conduct reviews to ensure that the proposal clearly conveys the proper business perspective, key messages, value proposition, and differentiators.
• · Coordinate tasks with the proposal team to meet applicable deadlines by managing and collaborating with internal and external subject matter experts.
• · Core writing for various BD, marketing and internal and external features including but no limited to, Support development of non-technical sections of white papers, proposals, task order submissions, and RFI/RFP responses. Will also play lead role in drafting monthly blogs, submission of awards for AG and CEO nominations. And will support the process to track award submissions to identify target awards.
• · Participate in/facilitate proposal post-submission meetings to discuss and capture lessons learned.
• · Conduct in-depth research and business intelligence gathering to inform pursuit strategies.
• · Develop case studies and other information to assess client needs.
• · Assess AG's capabilities and potential fit for new business opportunities.
• · Collaborate with others on research activities, strategy sessions, ideation, and design work to build approaches to new client work and for the expansion of current work.
• · Engage with project managers and team members about project work, successes, and challenges; and explore opportunities for improvement and/or expansion of existing processes and solutions.
• · Develop reports/dashboards and maintain databases to track wins/losses. · Supports all knowledge management for documents on BD and blogs and awards by organizing and maintenance of all documents in the AG share drive (Microsoft Office share point platform).

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Proposal Management and Proposal Writing
• Knowledge of RFP processes and compliance requirements
• Strong Communication skills and the ability to collaborate with diverse teams
• Proficiency in Project Management principles to meet deadlines and ensure efficiency
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative remote setting
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Experience in federal contracting or government services is advantageous
• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Business, or relevant field preferred