Proposal Writer II

DNI’s Proposal Writer, develops and writes compliant, compelling technical solutions for Government proposals across Information Technology, professional services, and other related solutions. This role leads technical volume development by translating customer requirements into clear approaches, integrating inputs from technical leads and internal stakeholders, and producing high quality narratives that align with evaluation criteria. This position supports DNI growth by strengthening proposal technical strategy, solution consistency, and reuse of approved technical content.

Essential Functions:

• Lead development of technical solution narratives in response to RFIs, RFPs, and related requests, writing approaches that are compliant, realistic, and differentiating.
• Write and refine technical proposal sections including technical approach, past performance and experience, and risk.
• Apply disciplined proposal development practices, including Shipley-aligned methods and compliance driven writing.
• Maintain and improve reusable technical content, ensuring consistency with DNI capabilities and technical direction.
• Manage multiple concurrent writing assignments and deliver technically accurate, compliant content under strict deadlines.

 Daily duties include but are not limited to: 

• Develop technical content for IT and professional services proposals with minimal supervision and strong attention to compliance.

• Facilitate solutioning sessions with the BD team and technical leads to capture accurate inputs and convert them into clear, evaluable narratives

• Conduct focused research on customer mission needs, PWS requirements, and Government IT trends to inform solution strategy.

• Contribute technical writing and edits to RFIs and RFPs, including incorporating reviewer feedback and finalizing sections for submission.

• Participate in reviews to ensure alignment with RFP/RFI requirements and offer technically accurate recommendations to improve compliance, clarity, and evaluability.

• Update and curate the technical content and past performance library to support reuse, standardization, and faster proposal production.

• Complete opportunity specific capability by mapping requirements to contract experience, answers are accurate and fully supportable by our performance history.

Periodic duties include but are not limited to: 

• Deliver bi-weekly status reports.
• Participate in weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly, and ad-hoc meetings and periodic planning sessions.
• Attend technical training, forums, and seminars to maintain technical relevancy in our competencies to respond and provide technical solutions.
• Contribute to capability briefings and marketing materials by translating our experience into clear, customer focused messaging.

Equipment/Systems:

• This position requires frequent use of all Microsoft Office applications, SharePoint, and Adobe.

Competencies: 

• This role requires excellent communication, decision-making and technical writing skills.  This individual must exhibit strong accountability, focus and team orientation with the ability to multi-task and work with others.  Knowledge of Gov-IT Technology trends and proposal / BD processes and best practices is a plus.
• Knowledge of Information Technology practices and trends, and proposal processes and best practices is necessary. This role requires excellent communication, decision making and technical writing skills. This individual must exhibit strong accountability, Information Technology background, focus and team orientation with the ability to multitask, meet strict deadlines, and work with others.

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

• This job operates in an office setting or supports working from home as agreed to by the manager.  This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, printers, and filing cabinets. This is a largely sedentary role that primarily requires sitting at a desk in front of a computer for long periods of time.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

• This is a full-time exempt position; typical work hours and days are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional hours outside of the normal schedule (including weekends) is required when there is a heavy volume of proposal activity. 

Travel: 

• Travel between 1-4 times per year depending on contract/opportunity circumstances or corporate events.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5-10 years of job-related experience

• Covers 100% of employee benefit premiums, including Medical (PPO or HDHP Option), Vision, Dental

• Matching 401K
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Pet Insurance
• Professional Development/Education Reimbursement
• Parking and Transit Benefits for NY, NJ, ATL, and DC Metro areas

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.