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Proposal Manager, Justice + Civic

Chicago💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the end-to-end pursuit process for new business opportunities, producing compliant proposals and managing multi-disciplinary teams to win projects.

Role type

Senior Proposal Manager (Business Development)

Builds

RFP responses, Statements of Qualification, and interview presentations for architecture, engineering, and design projects.

Domain

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Proposal writing and editing, team leadership, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, project management, strategic win theme development, quality control, database management

Preferred skills

Government proposal experience (SF330s/RFQ), Fortune 500 client experience, commercial real estate development knowledge, critical thinking, stakeholder management

Technologies

Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Deltek Vantagepoint

Responsibilities

Manage multiple concurrent pursuits to on-time delivery, synthesize complex information into compelling written responses, coach teams on presentation best practices, maintain pursuit material libraries, and record project data in the firm database.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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