Senior Proposal Manager

NIKA is hiring for a Senior Proposal Manager to join our Business Development team out!  As a member of our dynamic Growth team, your work will be integral to the success of NIKA’s growth strategy and key pursuits. This growing team is focused on winning and we’re looking for like-minded professionals to grow with us! The ideal location for this employee will be based out of NIKA HQ office in Rockville, MD or out of our San Antonio, TX office.  Remote will be considered.

Primary Duties and Job Responsibilities

• The Senior Proposal Manager will report to the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Proposals and be responsible for writing and managing the development, coordination, and completion of Request for Proposal (RFP) responses that are compliant and compelling.
• Manage proposal development process from RFP release through production/submission.
• Review and interpret Government solicitation requirements.
• Coordinate resources for proposal development, writing, and production.
• Develop a proposal schedule, RFP-compliant outline, compliance matrix, kickoff briefs, and proposal response material.
• Assist proactively in development of strategic win themes and discriminators.
• Collaborate with Capture Managers, executives, subject matter experts, and partners to provide proposal leadership, support, and overall direction.
• Manage multiple proposal tasks with sometimes rapid turnaround deadlines.
• Coordinate and Manage responses to Task Orders.
• Harvest appropriate proposal content from previously submitted proposals.
• Lead kickoff meetings, color team reviews and debriefs, and daily status meetings for price and non-price volumes.
• Oversee the development of high quality, high impact artwork and graphics for proposals.
• Ensure win themes and strategies are expressed in proposal.
• Maintain quality and document version control throughout the proposal process.
• Assist with ongoing improvements for proposal processes, tools, templates, archives, boilerplate material.
• Work closely with NIKA executives, technical professionals, business partners, and others to coordinate business proposal processes including – proposal schedules, proposal writing assignments, graphics support, content reviews/ editing, content compliance reviews, and related services.
• Manage the NIKA corporate proposal library/online repository and provide configuration management, along with tailored content to proposal writers based on previously written material (i.e., Graphics, Presentations, Executive Summaries, Technical and Management Approaches, Past Performance, Resumes, etc.)
• Must be able to work well within a team and be comfortable in a very fluid, fast-paced, and performance-based environment, building and responding to both short and long-term projects, deliverables and plans.
• Flexible and open to ch