About Blumont:
Blumont is a global organization working with communities around the world to help people overcome challenges and create a foundation for progress. Our vision is a world where a community’s future is not determined by its circumstances, but by the aspirations of its people. Whether delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance, building the infrastructure that stabilizes communities, or creating economic opportunities for individuals and businesses, Blumont teams are committed to making a positive difference in peoples’ lives.
Summary:
The Senior Technical Writer is a key position within Blumont’s Business Development Team responsible for writing and winning high value awards in Blumont’s area of expertise including but not limited to Stabilization and Governance, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Livelihoods and Economic Development, Agriculture and Food Security, Infrastructure and Essential Services. He/she will work directly with a range of proposal teams to develop successful multi-million-dollar international proposals for USAID and other donors. The Senior Technical Writer works closely with Business Development, Communications and Project Quality and Learning teams to develop proposals that are responsive to the needs of the client and support development of technical communications materials, reports and other documents as needed. The role reports to the Director for Business Development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of winning bids on contracts and cooperative agreements
- Lead proactive writing planning processes, including participation in solution design and strategy sessions, development of win themes, differentiators, and color team reviews to develop winning proposals, and set expectations on writing practices among the team
- Thoroughly analyze and draft in compliance with solicitation technical and format requirements
- Manage technical proposal draft writing and review cycles, and incorporate feedback
- Provide relevant, innovative, and technically sound and current information to help shape project designs for relevant technical sectors, which may include primary and/or secondary research as required
- Actively catalyze and support development of pre-proposal stage sections
- Maintain standard proposal style format template, compliant to solicitation requirements for bids as needed and appropriately branded/proprietarily marked throughout
- Provide ongoing training of other staff and consultants to increase the quality, responsiveness, and competitiveness of proposals through mentoring and formal training courses
- Independently write proposal sections, complete drafts, and final product for bids
- Provide technical writing, review and editing support to Blumont project teams as needed
- Lead or support development of technical white papers, marketing materials or other communications products as needed
- Edit proposal pieces or technical reports as needed
- Help to make and support internal relationships across the company supportive of productive collaboration leading to stronger bid efforts
- Contribute to tools, processes, and approaches to enhance the bid process
Preferred Skills and Competencies
- Significant international development work experience, ideally including familiarity with USAID, and/or other international donors
- Strong technical writing and editing skills, and the ability to conceptualize and write/edit a bid proposal, marketing material, or project report
- Proven writing and editing acumen.
- Successful track record working with a diverse portfolio of international development donors including USAID, US State Department, and FCDO.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Understanding of international development technical subject matter and procurement processes
- Must be able to work under tight deadlines with multiple/simultaneous bid efforts, and across time-zones
- Sound problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Well-organized and high attention to detail
- Commitment to respect cultural differences and the ability to work effectively with people from a range of background and experiences
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 30% to inform technical volumes
Physical Requirements:
- Normal Office Conditions