Proposal Writer

6 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa PyraLink Aerospace Full time

**PROPOSAL WRITER**
WC, South Africa

PyraLink Aerospace was founded under the philosophy that Simplicity, Affordability and Flexibility are tightly coupled with a goal of creating a strong society where South Africans can make Space part of their daily conversations.

**PROPOSAL WRITER**

From release of a customer’s requirements through award of a contract, the PyraLink proposal editor manages the preparation and submittal of PyraLink’ bids for competitive business opportunities, usually launch services worth millions or hundreds of millions of rands. In this role, you’ll prepare proposals that describe the features and benefits of PyraLink’ constantly evolving technology and launch services. You will manage authors from across PyraLink’ technical and business teams as they prepare text addressing specific customer needs. You’ll edit, rewrite, and write technical and nontechnical text as necessary to prepare the most compelling possible proposals. You’ll also be responsible for the creation of clear, visually persuasive graphics and for the timely printing and delivery of a clean, error-free final product.

The position requires the energy, initiative, flexibility, and dependability to produce documents that reflect PyraLink’ commitment to the rapid and reliable advancement of Spacecraft & Rocket development in South Africa.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Read, understand, and communicate the highly complex requirements of new customer opportunities.
- Develop and manage proposal schedules.
- Draft proposal outlines.
- Work with technical staff to gather and draft technical information for commercial and government proposals.
- Help develop creative arguments and talking points into compelling executive summaries and proposal text tailored for each opportunity.
- Work with technical and business staff to resolve open issues and questions about proposal text, figures, and tables.
- Help identify and develop supporting graphics.
- Edit and rewrite as necessary for clarity, logic, and readability.
- Fact-check information and flag technical errors.
- Edit for spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
- Ensure documents conform to company format and editorial style.
- Ensure proposals comply with customer instructions.
- Guide documents through review and approval processes.
- Prepare documents for print. Produce required copies and arrange delivery.
- Help develop and improve deliverable templates.
- Improve and streamline the proposal development process.
- Help maintain repository of frequently used proposal information.
- Support mission management, sales, and other PyraLink organizations with editing, writing, publication, and communication

©PyraLink Aerospace

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 5+ years of experience publishing documents and/or editing the work of others.
- 2+ years of experience in the professional-level preparation of documents for publication in Microsoft Office or 5+ years of experience with a non-Office word processing program and desktop publishing software.
- 5+ years of experience editing at the organizational, structural, sentence, fact
- checking, and proofreading levels.

**PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, technical writing, or professional writing.
- Experience with proposal or grant writing.
- Ability, or potential, to help implement proposal strategy.
- Knowledge of government or commercial proposals.
- Experience writing captions or headlines.
- Experience following an editorial style guide.
- Ability to turn strings of buzz words or jargon into coherent writing.
- Strong grasp of language, including nuance and tone.
- Proven ability to work under the pressure of long
- and short-term deadlines.
- Demonstrated record of successfully planning and completing both short
- and long-term projects.
- Demonstrated leadership, influence, and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated organizational skills.
- Demonstrated attention to detail.
- Basic knowledge of PyraLink’ mission, business model, and competition.

PyraLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with PyraLink is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status

Ability to Commute:

- Cape Town, Western Cape (required)

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