Role: Technical Writer
Location: Crystal City, VA (Hybrid remote 2 days onsite a week)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Clearance: Must be eligible for Public Trust
Pay Rate: up to $40hr on W2
Overview:
Technical Writer (Procurement) (1 position) The individual shall have a bachelor s degree in writing and rhetoric, English, or related degree and at least three (3) years of experience successfully participating in the completion of similar project tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for quotes (RFQs), sources sought notices and requests for information (RFIs) and outlines and organizes proposal/submittal to be responsive to client requirements, including content, format, forms and other information.
- Conduct research for appropriate materials.
- Creates clear, concise, compelling descriptive narrative for inclusion in competitive proposal offerings by analyzing the underlying communication objectives and working directly with the subject-matter experts to develop the required content.
- Communicates complex concepts in a simple and straightforward manner such that a customer proposal evaluator can understand the product or process.
- Proofreads and edits proposal text written by project manager and technical subject matter experts (SMEs) for compliance, clarity, proper grammar, spelling, and style.
- Performs desktop publishing for proposals in MS Word and/or Adobe to ensure proposal documents are properly formatted, easy to read and visually appealing.
- Coordinates with graphic designers to ensure that any required graphic arts materials, such as covers, layout sheets, photographs, organization charts, etc., are produced to specifications and are ready to be included in the submittal.
- Attends pre-proposal conferences and site visits, as needed.