Join Peraton’s Proposal Content Development team and contribute to producing high-quality, mission-critical federal proposals. We are expanding our team of disciplined, collaborative writers who thrive in fast-paced environments and take pride in delivering clear, compliant, evaluator-focused content. This role offers mid-level writers the opportunity to work closely with solution architects, SMEs, and proposal leaders to develop strong technical and management narratives that strengthen our competitive positioning.
If you love the challenge of translating complex solutions into compelling, evaluator-focused narratives that drive competitive advantage, we want to hear from you.
Position Overview
The Proposal Writer plays a central role in developing compliant, compelling content across technical, management, staffing, resumes, and past performance volumes. This writer works under the guidance of volume leads and in collaboration with Subject Matter Experts and Lead Solution Architects to develop sections, refine content, and ensure alignment with win themes and proposal standards.
The Proposal Writer does not manage direct reports but contributes to content development best practices and maintains consistency across deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
Success Profile
The ideal Proposal Writer is:
- A strategic thinker with excellent writing discipline.
- Skilled at balancing creativity with compliance.
- Comfortable leading content development without formal people management.
- Highly organized and able to guide cross-volume consistency.
- Proactive, collaborative, and solution‑oriented.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors and 5+ years of experience supporting federal proposals, including technical and management volumes (or equivalent professional writing experience). 4 years of additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- Deep understanding of the proposal development lifecycle
- Strong ability to synthesize SME input into clear, compelling narrative.
- Demonstrated understanding of federal RFP structures and compliance requirements.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to handle multiple sections or volumes under tight deadlines.
- Experience collaborating within a matrixed proposal environment.
- Experience with AI writing tools and content automation.
- Local to NoVA area and willing to work in office 4 days a week (and as needed) for proposal support.
- Experience working with solution architects, SMEs, and capture teams.
- Familiarity with Shipley or similar proposal methodologies.
- US Citizenship
- Ability to obtain a TS clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- TS/SCI clearance preferred.
- Experience supporting large, complex proposals (>$100M+).
- Ability to mentor other writers and provide constructive feedback.
- Experience with content planning and storyboarding.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills; ability to work effectively with technical SMEs and senior leaders
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting federal proposals, including technical and management volumes, or equivalent professional writing experience; 4 additional years may substitute for the degree
- Deep understanding of the proposal development lifecycle
- Ability to synthesize subject matter expert input into clear, compelling narrative
- Understanding of federal RFP structures and compliance requirements
- Exceptional writing, editing, and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to handle multiple sections or volumes under tight deadlines
- Experience collaborating within a matrixed proposal environment
- Experience with AI writing tools and content automation
- Local to the Northern Virginia area and willing to work in the office four days per week and as needed for proposal support
- Experience working with solution architects, subject matter experts, and capture teams
- Familiarity with Shipley or similar proposal methodologies
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain a TS clearance
- TS/SCI clearance
- Experience supporting large, complex proposals exceeding $100 million
- Ability to mentor other writers and provide constructive feedback
- Experience with content planning and storyboarding
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with technical SMEs and senior leaders
Peraton Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Peraton and has not been reviewed or approved by Peraton.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are described as broad, including medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and specialty programs like virtual physical therapy and surgical/cancer care navigation. Medical coverage is also characterized as a standout part of the overall package in terms of perceived quality.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is repeatedly positioned as a strong component of total rewards. The 401(k) benefit is frequently singled out as one of the most valued parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are positioned as robust, including PTO, holidays, paid sick days, and floating holidays, with some roles offering notably generous accrual. Leave breadth is reinforced by related programs such as short/long-term disability and bereavement leave.
Peraton Insights
What We Do
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Why Work With Us
We are fearlessly solving the world’s most complex challenges to keep people safe and secure. You can be a part of protecting and promoting that freedom around the world.
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