Job Description
At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.
Join Accenture Federal Services to do the work you love in an inclusive, collaborative, and caring community, where you can be empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.
Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!
You are:
A Proposal Coordinator who will support the Proposal Manager with proposal development activities, team communications, and document control to control the proposal development process.
The work:
- Supports administrative day-to-day proposal management activities for small to large federal opportunities, including development of work plans, schedules and milestones.
- Interfaces with Proposal Managers, Solution Architects, Authors, Graphics, and Editors to ensure consistency, compliance and accuracy of messages across proposal lifecycle.
- Supports Proposal manager in maintaining compliance matrix against RFP/TO compliance requirements.
- Identifies relevant baseline material to populate RFP/TO response template in accordance with RFP/TO compliance matrix sections and page counts.
- Coordinates activities of operations organizations, including (but not limited to) Marketing, Contracts, Legal & Compliance and Pricing
- Contributes to continuous improvement activities.
- Schedules meetings (e.g., proposal kickoff, proposal reviews, daily standups) and conference rooms ensuring proper attendees are invited.
- Maintains list of action items for each proposal and follows up to ensure items are completed or to obtain updated status at regular intervals.
- Maintains and ensures proposal contact lists are up to date.
- Adds and removes users from proposal site as required. Ensures each user has proper privileges.
- As required for backup and production purposes, maintains latest proposal documents on the shared drive and copies documents to the shared drive on a regular basis
- Coordinates proposal room reservations for strategic deal teams
- Coordinates and provides work direction for graphics and desktop publishing support for proposal
Here's what you need:
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Advanced/expert knowledge of Microsoft applications (specifically Word)
- Knowledge of SharePoint, document production and file version
- Administrative/scheduling experience in high demand, fast paced environment
- Familiarity with components of a Federal RFP
Bonus points if you have:
- 2 years of experience in a Federal Proposal environment
- 1 year of experience in a Federal Proposal Printing/Production environment
- Document Formatting/Desk Top Publishing (DTP)
What We Believe
We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.
Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here
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Accenture Federal Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.
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Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture Federal Services and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.
If you are being considered for employment opportunities with Accenture Federal Services and need an accommodation for a disability or religious observance during the interview process or for the job you are interviewing for, please speak with your recruiter.
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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
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