Technical Proposal Writer (Corporate Office)

Technical Proposal Writer

Davis Defense Group, Inc. has secured a stellar reputation as one of the premier Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) in the aerospace and defense industry, steadfastly supporting the Department of Defense since 2002. A critical combination of vision and dedication to excellence has helped our customers achieve numerous significant milestones on schedule and within budget. Today we employ over 700 personnel around the globe in a mix of analytical, advisory, technical, and support positions. The common thread across our organization is our commitment to our customers and an unwavering dedication to our principle motto: "Mission Focused, Future Ready. Innovating today, Leading tomorrow."

Davis Defense Group is seeking a Technical Proposal Writer to support the development of compelling, compliant, and customer-focused federal proposals that advance the company's strategic growth objectives. This position serves as a technical writing resource within Proposal Operations and partners closely with Proposal Managers, Capture Managers, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Business Development, and People Operations professionals to develop winning proposal content for complex federal opportunities.

The Technical Proposal Writer functions as the Lead Writer for assigned proposal volumes, translating approved storyboards and technical solutions into persuasive, evaluator-focused narratives that clearly communicate the value of DDG solutions and relevant past performance. Beyond content development, this role provides strategic writing guidance, mentors other proposal writers, helps improve proposal processes and reusable content, tailors key personnel resumes, and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives across the proposal organization. This role supports a wide variety of proposal efforts, including Requests for Information (RFIs), Sources Sought Notices, Requests for Quotations (RFQs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and task orders under multiple-award contract vehicles.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Incorporate win themes, customer benefits, strengths, differentiators, proof points, and relevant examples into technical proposal content.
• Clearly communicate the proposed solution, delivery approach, and value to the customer's mission and operations.
• Improve proposal readability by using clear and concise headings, bullets, tables, callout boxes, graphics/visuals, and other scannable formats.
• Review and edit proposal content for clarity, compliance, persuasiveness, and alignment with win themes.
• Manage multiple proposal writing and editing assignments simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.

• Serve as the primary writing partner to Lead SMEs throughout proposal development.
• Facilitate working sessions with technical contributors to gather solution information.
• Challenge assumptions and ask probing questions that improve proposal clarity and customer focus.
• Translate technical concepts into accessible proposal language.
• Resolve content gaps through collaboration with SMEs, Solution Architects, Capture Managers, and Proposal Managers.
• Ensure technical accuracy without sacrificing readability, persuasiveness, or compliance.

• Ensure proposal responses fully comply with solicitation requirements, evaluation criteria, and approved storyboards.
• Verify compliance with compliance matrices.
• Identify and resolve compliance gaps, inconsistencies, redundancies, and conflicting information.
• Monitor page allocation and content density to maximize evaluator value within page limitations.
• Review and refine proposal sections developed by other writers and contributors to ensure consistency and quality.
• Promote proposal writing best practices across the proposal team.

• Leverage Generative AI to improve proposal development efficiency while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and adherence to best practices for AI use in proposals.
• Contribute reusable proposal content, graphics, proof points, and best practices to the Proposal Operations base content library.

Required Experience:

• Demonstrated experience partnering with technical SMEs to develop compelling content.
• Strong understanding of the federal proposal development processes.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting requirements and developing compliant, evaluator-focused responses.
• Exceptional writing, editing, interviewing, and document organization skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and consistently meet aggressive deadlines.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated professionalism, sound judgment, and collaborative leadership.

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree with demonstrated experience in writing, editing, communications, and critical thinking.

Desired Experience:

• Extensive experience writing technical and management proposal volumes for DoD/DoW, NASA and/or Intelligence Community opportunities.
• Experience managing and supporting color team reviews.
• Shipley and/or APMP foundations.
• Thorough understanding of FAR-based contracting.