About Us:
eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.
Purpose and Scope:
If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact in your everyday work and help the government find solutions to their biggest problems, eSimplicity has an opening for an experienced Senior Proposal Writer/Editor to join our Proposal Operations team. Our Senior Proposal Writer/Editor will not only plan, write, edit, and deliver winning proposal content in response to Federal solicitations to set our company apart from the pack in our proposal response and presentation, but you will also be directly involved in business development, Pre-RFP related activities (RFIs), and special projects (writing guides, marketing case studies), and rewarded for your part in helping our company grow. If you are passionate about writing, editing, and making an impact with modern technology solutions, we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
Proposal Writing:
- Interview and work with technical subject matter experts (SMEs) to gather, write, and translate technical information into clear, concise, and compelling proposal content for modern, agile, cloud-based systems.
- Review, revise, and coordinate technical proposal content from internal and partner SMEs for accuracy, messaging, themes, and consistency.
- Coach authors (SMEs) and provide iterative guidance to individual SMEs with writing assignments to make sections more compelling and easier to evaluate.
- Provide orientation and training for new proposal team members on proposal writing and processes.
- Collaborate with Proposal Managers on kickoff material to guide SMEs tasked with writing proposal sections.
- Participate in technical solution sessions to understand the proposed solutions and lead or support technical content development (depending on opportunity).
- Leverage technical writing best practices to help write and craft technical sections.
- Perform complete reviews of proposal content and graphics to ensure sections comply with Government requirements, contain win themes and strategy, and adhere to eSimplicity format and style criteria.
- Continuous improvement activities are recommended to refine writing processes and techniques as appropriate.
- Collaborate with Graphic Designers to develop graphics, including anchor graphics, diagrams, processes, etc.
- Adhere to corporate proposal-writing standards, style guides, and processes, and update as needed.
Editing:
- Edit proposals to ensure a compliant and compelling final product for submission. Proofread content, grammar, style, and format per instructions.
- Edit all technical content for accuracy, messaging, themes, and consistency.
- Edit proposals following eSimplicity’s established styles in our Style Guide.
- Update proofreading checklist.
- Edit for “one-voice” to include readability, clarity, and responsiveness to requirements.
- Edit to help meet page count requirements.
- Apply eSimplicity’s brand messaging to all responses, including tone, style, and theme.
- Identify content for reuse in the proposal content repository.
