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K-12 educational services company with a vision to end generational poverty and eliminate racial achievement gaps.
The Role
Manage customer-facing proposals, renewals, and RFx responses for K-12 education clients. Responsibilities include writing and customizing proposals, maintaining content libraries, coordinating cross-functional inputs, managing workflows and deadlines, developing budgets in CRM tools, tracking versions and milestones, leveraging AI and proposal technology, and analyzing outcomes to improve win rates. The role also serves as a subject matter expert on company offerings and coordinates follow-up throughout the proposal lifecycle.
Summary Generated by Built In
Experienced Proposal Manager - Full-time/Remote
Join Our Mission
Instructional Empowerment (IE) partners with school districts nationwide to improve teaching and learning through rigorous, student-centered instruction. We help educators create equitable learning environments that empower all students to succeed.
We are seeking a Proposal Manager to lead the development of compelling customer-facing proposals, renewals, and RFx responses that support our growth and impact in K-12 education.
Position Summary
The Proposal Manager plays a key role in supporting business development by creating high-quality proposals, managing proposal workflows, and maintaining a library of reusable content and collateral.
Working across departments, this individual will develop customized proposals that clearly communicate the value of Instructional Empowerment's services and solutions. The Proposal Manager will build efficient systems for proposal creation, content management, version control, and tracking while leveraging AI and proposal technology tools to improve quality and efficiency.
What You'll Do
Required Qualifications
At Instructional Empowerment, your work directly supports school districts and educators in creating meaningful learning experiences for students. Join a mission-driven team committed to helping schools achieve lasting results through high-quality instruction.
A Benefits Package Designed Around Your Well-Being
Join Our Mission
Instructional Empowerment (IE) partners with school districts nationwide to improve teaching and learning through rigorous, student-centered instruction. We help educators create equitable learning environments that empower all students to succeed.
We are seeking a Proposal Manager to lead the development of compelling customer-facing proposals, renewals, and RFx responses that support our growth and impact in K-12 education.
Position Summary
The Proposal Manager plays a key role in supporting business development by creating high-quality proposals, managing proposal workflows, and maintaining a library of reusable content and collateral.
Working across departments, this individual will develop customized proposals that clearly communicate the value of Instructional Empowerment's services and solutions. The Proposal Manager will build efficient systems for proposal creation, content management, version control, and tracking while leveraging AI and proposal technology tools to improve quality and efficiency.
What You'll Do
- Develop and manage proposals for new business opportunities, renewals, and RFx submissions.
- Create professional, accurate, and visually compelling proposal documents.
- Customize proposal content to address district-specific needs and priorities.
- Build and maintain a centralized library of proposal content, narratives, and reusable collateral.
- Ensure product messaging, research, and supporting evidence remain current and consistent.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather information and develop winning proposal responses.
- Become a subject matter expert on Instructional Empowerment's products, services, and instructional framework.
- Serve as the power user for proposal management tools and leverage AI to optimize proposal development.
- Track proposal status, version history, timelines, and key milestones.
- Develop proposal budgets aligned to approved scopes of work using CRM tools.
- Analyze proposal outcomes and provide insights to improve future win rates and processes.
- Coordinate follow-up activities and additional information requests throughout the proposal lifecycle.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in persuasive, deadline-driven technical writing, including:
- RFP responses
- RFx submissions
- Government or educational proposals
- Grant writing
- Complex business proposals
- Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
- Experience developing and organizing digital content libraries and knowledge management systems.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel.
- Strong attention to detail, quality control, and version management.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment.
- Experience supporting K-12 education organizations or school districts.
- Knowledge of K-12 funding sources, purchasing cycles, regulations, and procurement processes.
- APMP Foundation Certification.
- Experience building proposal budgets with detailed line-item pricing.
- Experience with Salesforce, SharePoint, RocketDocs, Microsoft Teams, or similar platforms.
- Experience leveraging AI tools within proposal development workflows.
At Instructional Empowerment, your work directly supports school districts and educators in creating meaningful learning experiences for students. Join a mission-driven team committed to helping schools achieve lasting results through high-quality instruction.
A Benefits Package Designed Around Your Well-Being
- Multiple medical plan options, including a 100% employer-paid health plan
- HSA and FSA options available to save for medical expenses, with employer-funded HSA contributions for those participating in eligible healthcare plans
- Company-paid dental, vision, life, STD, and LTD coverage
- 15 days of PTO available in your first year of employment
- 8 paid holidays, plus 2 floating holidays
- 401(k) with a 4% company match
- Salary range $65,000-$75,000
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- At least three years of experience in persuasive, deadline-driven technical writing
- Experience with RFP responses, RFx submissions, government or educational proposals, grant writing, or complex business proposals
- Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Experience developing and organizing digital content libraries and knowledge management systems
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel
- Strong attention to detail, quality control, and version management
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment
- Experience supporting K-12 education organizations or school districts
- Knowledge of K-12 funding sources, purchasing cycles, regulations, and procurement processes
- APMP Foundation Certification
- Experience building proposal budgets with detailed line-item pricing
- Experience with Salesforce, SharePoint, RocketDocs, Microsoft Teams, or similar platforms
- Experience leveraging AI tools within proposal development workflows
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The Company
What We Do
At Instructional Empowerment, our mission is to end generational poverty and eliminate achievement gaps through redesigned rigorous Tier 1 instruction that ensures deeper learning for ALL students. We believe true empowerment is achieved when systems and structures align to ensure students engage in rigorous, standards-based tasks that build knowledge with peers in collaborative, interdependent teams. We partner with school and district leaders to build schools’ capacity and instructional systems, driving rapid, measurable, and long-term student outcomes. By shifting from teacher-directed instruction to student-led team learning, we empower every student to become an independent, critical thinker who takes ownership of their learning. We are so serious about our mission that we founded our own independent Applied Research Center. Our research center verifies every project using the most exacting federal research standards. We ensure our methods work in every school and every classroom in all the different communities that our partner schools serve. When implemented effectively, student-led team learning has been proven to close or narrow opportunity and achievement gaps. We see this impact across our partner schools, where students develop the high-agency skills essential for success in a rapidly evolving world. If you believe what we believe, we hope you’ll join us to make the teaching and learning process more empowering for every child and educator.
