RFP Writer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Evaluate and analyze solicitations to create comprehensive requirement inventories.

• Develop response outlines based on evaluation criteria and scoring metrics.

• Differentiate district-specific requirements from standard template language.

• Identify compliance risks, such as licensure, insurance, bonding, registrations, and certifications.

• Monitor and acknowledge addenda within submission deadlines.

• Prepare complete RFP submissions, which include cover letters, executive summaries, program descriptions, technical approaches, implementation and training plans, staffing and support narratives, and references.

• Customize responses to align with each district's size, policy status, and expressed needs.

• Compose responses that directly address requirements and utilize evaluator terminology.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts from Sales, Implementation, Finance, and Legal.

• Create and maintain compliance crosswalks.

• Complete vendor disclosures, conflict-of-interest questionnaires, debarment and non-collusion certifications, registrations, and addenda acknowledgments.

• Ensure uniformity across forms, narratives, attachments, and pricing.

• Manage response production schedules to avoid administrative and technical disqualification.

• Maintain the approved content library and update facts at the source.

• Adhere to approved-claims standards.

• Act as a second reader during peer reviews.

• Compile signature pages, disclosures, insurance certificates, pricing workbooks, and attachments.

• Generate and submit final documents according to guidelines.

• Facilitate submissions through procurement portals.

• Request and log scoring sheets and debrief notes, track win rates, and apply insights to future responses.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of three years of experience in proposal, grant, or technical writing within a public procurement setting.

• Proven experience in responding to solicitations from school districts, state agencies, municipalities, or purchasing cooperatives.

• Familiarity with RFPs, RFQs, invitations to bid, and cooperative solicitations.

• Experience in managing full submissions or individual sections through upload confirmation, including compliance components.

• Experience in maintaining and developing a content library with version control.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, including styles, section breaks, cross-references, and table formatting through PDF conversion.

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing deadlines without sacrificing accuracy.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Preferred: Experience in K–12 education.

• Preferred: International experience.

• Preferred: Working knowledge of federal and state education funding, including Title IV-A, Title I, Title II-A, and state safety and formula programs.

• Preferred: Experience with pricing workbooks, including unit pricing tables, extended totals, and discount structures.

• Preferred: Experience in writing in an organization's voice and integrating brand language into district-specific narratives.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Salesforce.

• Candidates will be asked about their location in the Eastern Time Zone.

• Yondr is unable to provide visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% paid medical coverage plan option for employees with access to over 15 plan types, including PPO, HMO, and HDHP.

• Dental and vision insurance.

• Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• 1 week of paid holiday break at the end of December.

• 11 additional recognized national holidays.

• 401(k) offering.

• Choice between PC or Mac.

• Hybrid employees enjoy catered lunch twice a week.