The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) is the country’s largest collegiate-based transportation research institute, charged with finding solutions to the greatest transportation challenges facing our world. The Technical Proposal Writer is an integral part of VTTI’s Proposal Team, which produces and submits $100M in proposals annually, having a direct impact on transportation safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
Key Responsibilities:
• Content Development: Work closely with Principal Investigators (PIs), Program Managers, and VTTI leadership to lead the content development of VTTI’s proposals.
• Technical Content Quality: Ensure technical proposal content has a sound, logical, and cohesive approach. Iterate with other members of the proposal development teams to assure submission of world-class business and technical volumes on behalf of VTTI.
• Editorial Oversight: Determine responsibility for all editorial elements of proposals and other written deliverables, including participation from the beginning to the end of the proposal submission process (composition, editing, assembly, and production of final technical documents submitted to the sponsor).
• Clarity and Accessibility: Ensure that technical content is logical and understandable by multiple audiences, including non-technical stakeholders, by maintaining clarity, cohesiveness, and responsiveness to the opportunity announcement.
• Consistency and Standards: Ensure consistency in image, branding, grammar, punctuation, format, tone, and style. Apply VTTI proposal standards and practices effectively to all proposal documents as time and circumstances require.
• Project Management: Work collectively with the Proposal Team and VTTI’s PIs to plan and implement a proposal development timetable, staffing plans, and identify unique or unusual specifications in the request for proposal requirements.
• Additional Editing: Edit other technical documents as necessary, including, but not limited to, reports to sponsors, journal articles to be submitted for publication, external publicity materials, newsletters, etc.
Directions Given and Received:
• Independently perform most assignments with instructions on global objectives and general results expected.
• Receive guidance on unusual or complex problems, and work is reviewed for application of sound professional judgment.
• May supervise, mentor, train, and coordinate the work of faculty, staff, and graduate research assistants who assist in specific assignments.
The team is looking to hire for the Blacksburg area but is open to considering remote work.