Marketing Proposal Writer sought for National Law Firm

Producing high-quality and effective proposals and other written communications. Our proposals are mainly public sector focused. The candidate will have significant experience planning, developing, and completing responses to, RFPs, RFQs and RFIs. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with attorneys and management and providing leadership related to proposal process execution.

Essential Job Duties:

• Develops proposal by assembling information including firm and attorney qualifications, staffing, budget and prior work projects completed; writing, revising, and editing drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and firm credentials.
• Ensure the content responds to the needs of the RFP.
• Gathers proposal information by identifying sources of information, gathering data, and coordinating submission.
• Determines proposal content by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs; studying requests for proposal (RFPs); scheduling/attending strategy meetings.
• Study and outline the requirements of proposal with the expectations of the client and the team in mind.
• Meets proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; entering and monitoring tracking data; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information to review meetings; transmitting proposals.
• Prepares presentation by evaluating text, graphics, and binding; coordinating printing.
• Maintains quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases.
• Obtains approvals by reviewing proposal with key providers and project managers.
• Improves proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and boilerplate; implementing changes.

Other Duties:

• Additional writing projects will be required (memos, letters, social media, etc.).
• Submitting proposals for firm recognition/awards.
• Working with other marketing team members to write and edit copy for various marketing programs.
• Writing press releases for posting to our website and distribution to the media.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• BA degree in Journalism, English or related Communications field is required; JD degree is a plus
• Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, and an ability to write articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and formatting
• Available for occasional overtime
• Proficient researcher with ability to process large amounts of complex information
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, detailed-oriented, and the ability multitask
• Independently driven, proactive, and self-motivated
• Must exhibit high degree of professionalism, independent judgment, initiative and a high standard of ethics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a law firm, legal services or publishing environment. JD a plus
• Understanding of legal jargon
• College major in journalism, English, marketing, or related communications field
• Knowledge of SEO principles to drive traffic to firm’s website

If interested in confidential consideration, email your resume to dhudson@hersadvisors.com

All inquiries will be held in strict confidence. HERS Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #ZR