Proposal Writer: Business Development

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Intellidex Full time

Intellidex** **is a leading research house on capital markets and financial services, harnessing these to lead to better outcomes for the public. We undertake a wide range of research across emerging markets leading to highly influential publications and other reports for clients and the public.

We are looking for an eloquent and persuasive writer to produce proposals that articulate the value propositions our business provides. You would work with the business development team and senior leadership in creating proposals and related content. The proposal writer's responsibilities include coordinating the inputs from the research team, creating original powerful content that shows how we can meet a client's requirements, formatting the information according to the company's policies or clients' templates, obtaining executive approval, and delivering the proposal.

A successful specialist is dependable, meticulous, and capable of producing factual and engaging writing.

**Responsibilities**
- Produce persuasive proposals in response to requests from potential clients and proactively that successfully articulate out ability to meet the client's needs.
- Researching, writing, and organising information in a professional and credible manner
- Researching proposal topics and audiences to achieve the best reception
- Streamlining our proposal development process for efficiencies, including updating of existing templates
- Developing project cost models for inclusion in proposals
- Prioritising responsibilities to meet deadlines.
- Editing and revising proposals according to feedback
- 8. Producing related content such as presentations and brochures that articulate our general value proposition

**Requirements**:

- A Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, English, or related field involving extensive writing.
- Previous experience in proposal writing will be an advantage.
- Excellent computer (particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and organisational skills, as well as attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Good strategic planning abilities

**A good fit would**
- Be curious - want to understand our clients and their challenges.
- Be resourceful - know how to find answers both through online research and by picking up the phone
- Be passionate about writing as a craft - able to create compelling narratives that avoid cliches and appeal to human emotions. Being allergic to “corporate speak”
- Be “on it” from the start - take responsibility and commit to getting proposals done on deadline
- Be detail focused - you catch every little detail that doesn't fit what we should be delivering
- Thrive under pressure - a deadline and adrenaline makes you focus and perform better

We offer a small company environment in which you will have considerable latitude to shape your role. Remuneration will be a mixture of basic and performance-based pay.

Our standards are high. You will be working with MBAs, CFA charter holders and PhDs on our team to ensure that Intellidex delivers high levels of client satisfaction and responds dynamically to new business opportunities.


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