Senior Proposal Analyst
Temporary Part-TimeJob Overview
Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview):
The Senior Proposal Analyst provides analytical, compliance, and content-integration leadership across federal proposal efforts, supporting pursuits from RFP release through submission. This role combines deep understanding of solicitation requirements with hands-on proposal development experience to ensure responses are compliant, well-structured, evaluator-focused, and on schedule.
The Senior Proposal Analyst serves as a key execution partner to the Proposal Manager—owning compliance artifacts, contributing to narrative development, managing cross-volume consistency, and ensuring proposal content aligns to evaluation criteria and win strategy.
Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview):
The Senior Proposal Analyst provides analytical, compliance, and content-integration leadership across federal proposal efforts, supporting pursuits from RFP release through submission. This role combines deep understanding of solicitation requirements with hands-on proposal development experience to ensure responses are compliant, well-structured, evaluator-focused, and on schedule.
The Senior Proposal Analyst serves as a key execution partner to the Proposal Manager—owning compliance artifacts, contributing to narrative development, managing cross-volume consistency, and ensuring proposal content aligns to evaluation criteria and win strategy.
What Your Day-To-Day Looks Like (Position Responsibilities):
Proposal Analysis & Compliance
· Analyze solicitation documents (RFPs, RFQs, RTOPs, RFIs), with emphasis on Sections L and M or agency-specific equivalents.
· Develop and maintain compliance matrices, annotated outlines, and requirement traceability tools.
· Identify compliance risks, gaps, and ambiguities and elevate them to proposal leadership.
· Support interpretation of evaluation criteria and ensure proposal content is explicitly aligned.
Proposal Development & Content Support
· Contribute to writing and editing of proposal sections, including technical, management, staffing, transition, and past performance narratives, as assigned.
· Translate capture strategy and win themes into evaluator-focused structure and messaging.
· Ensure consistency in terminology, tone, and positioning across volumes and contributors.
· Support integration of graphics, tables, and call-outs to reinforce key messages.
Execution & Coordination Support
· Support the Proposal Manager with proposal schedules, trackers, and daily execution oversight.
· Coordinate inputs from writers, SMEs, volume leads, pricing, and contracts teams.
· Track progress against deadlines and follow up on assigned actions and deliverables.
Review & Quality Control
· Support planning and execution of color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), including preparation of review materials.
· Log, track, and help adjudicate review comments to ensure timely and accurate resolution.
· Perform quality checks for completeness, clarity, consistency, and responsiveness prior to final submission.
Process Improvement & Knowledge Management
· Contribute to maintenance of proposal templates, checklists, and standard operating procedures.
· Support development and curation of reusable proposal content and lessons learned.
· Mentor junior proposal staff and support proposal process maturity.
What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Requirements):
· Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, English, Political Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
· 5+ years of experience supporting federal proposal development in a GovCon environment.
· Demonstrated experience with proposal compliance, Section L/M analysis, and requirement traceability.
· Strong analytical, writing, and organizational skills.
· Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
Ideally, You Also Have (Preferred Qualifications):
· Experience supporting DoD, DOJ, DHS, HHS, or other federal civilian agency proposals.
· Familiarity with FAR/DFARS-based procurements, IDIQs, and task-order competitions.
· Experience supporting large, multi-volume proposals and accelerated response timelines.
· Prior experience acting as a lead analyst or deputy proposal manager.