Senior Proposal Specialist

Description

• Being actively involved in the wider CDM Smith marketing discipline by participating on task forces and committees, as available.
• Developing business development, marketing, facilitation, and writing skills through internal and external training sources and associations membership and committee involvement.
• Planning, organizing, coordinating, and implementing strategies for marketing and business development opportunities throughout the firm's North Region.
• Updating information in the CDM Smith firmwide database of resumes, project descriptions, proposals and qualification packages, and maintaining marketing and visual presentation information.
• Developing, writing, editing, and reviewing content for proposals, presentations, resumes, project descriptions, and related marketing materials for our municipal water and environmental clients.
• Applying creativity/strategic vision and a theme-based approach to lead brainstorming, storyboarding, and other strategy development sessions.

Requirements

Amount Of Travel Required

• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Practical experience in facilitating both large and small groups in strategy and proposal development.
• Proficient in MS Office 365, Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Copilot and SharePoint applications; advanced skills in Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint, including use of styles and templates.
• B.A. or B.S. in Communications, English, Marketing, Journalism or related degree.
• Experience with business development/marketing process models (such as Dag Knudsen, Miller-Heiman, Shipley).
• Bachelor's degree.
• 6 years of related experience.
• Previous experience working for an architectural, engineering, construction, or other technical firm.
• The ability to work under rigid time constraints where a narrow margin for errors or delays is allowed.
• Experience in editing/proofreading narrative written by technical professionals.

Benefits

Minimum Qualifications

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance