Proposal Writer Manager (for a Creative Agency)

Taoti Creative is looking a Proposal Writer / Manager to join our agencys business development team!

(Sorry in advance for the long read. But this is your career were talking about here! Its worth the extra detail right The right fit is critical for both of our sakes so please forgive us in advance for the verbosity.)

Now about the job

Its one thing to have the brilliant ideas and technical knowledge to put together a solution for a client. But its another thing to be able to write it down and articulate itin a clear concise and compelling way. Taoti is looking for a Proposal Manager who can writing interesting proposals and manage the submission process. At Taoti our business development approach is extremely collaborative so its not like we throw an RFP at you lock you in a dark room and say here write a response to this. As our opportunities come in or our team finds them we evaluate qualify and strategize about how to win it. As a team (of which you will be part) we decide which opportunities to pursue and what our big ideas are. Thats where you step up. You borrow bits form old proposals take ideas from our team add in your own two cents and set out to write the worlds best proposal that wins over our soon-to-be client.

Please note : this job is for a full time in-house position. Which is not to say that teleworking from time to time cannot be accommodated when there is good reason to do so but generally speaking this is an in-house role 5-days per week.

What were looking for

• You write unbelievably well and can authentical adopt our agency tone and voice.
• And you know how to write compelling copy that stands out gets attention and makes an impression
• You have 2-4years of proposal writing experience.
• You WANT to write proposals.
• You know Word inside and out. Youd never daretoformat a heading without applying a style. You know how to create dynamic TOCs. You could teach Clippy a thing or three.
• While you may not be an artist you know how to make a fine looking document (or ask for help when you need some design input ) .
• Youre collaborative. Youre not afraid toask teammates questions about how to tackle a client need

Some typical responsibilities

Tips for getting onto theshort list

Established in 1996 Taoti Creative is a boutique full-service creative agency located on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. We are privately owned and have no corporate overlords (nothing personal WPP.) We do stuff like web development social media management branding experiential marketing video AR / VR etc. Our mission is to move the needle for our clients. We leverage technology creativity and innovation to generate meaningful and measurable results for our clientsthats what drives us. Speaking of clients theyre about 50% non-profits 25% commercial and 25% federal government. Some of our customers include World Bank USAID DC Water Discovery Education American Chemical Society Jane Goodall Foundation and dozens of National Association of etc. Our full time team of about 70 employees is about 65% in-house and 35% remote. We hail from over 15 countries. And for the last four years in a row weve made the Inc5000 list of fastest growing companies in the United States. Theres of course plenty of additional information on our website. If youve not done so already be sure to check out our culture video : Or if youre feeling virtual heres guided tour of the office in 360 video! not suitable for printers.)

Whats the corporate culture like

And for the general list of heres what we look for in a Taotian please check out about benefits

3 weeks PTO for starters. You gain more with tenure.

Next steps

If youre qualified and interested please apply on our website ( Please note that these job ads often get placed onto other websites with their own application systems (were looking at you Jooble!) And some sites (looking at you Indeed!) have made up random salary ranges (Indeed!) So please be sure youre applying on our website.

Pretty please no recruiters.

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Sales Experience,B2B Sales,Marketing,Financial Services,Customer Services,Management Experience,Redmine,Agency Management,Home Care,Outside Sales,Sales Management,Recruiting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Business Development

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 70 - 100