Responsibilities

• Be a “go-to” partner for technical staff for marketing information, best practices guidance, and support.
• Collaborate with pursuit teams in strategic planning for pursuits, proposals, marketing, and business development efforts, including:
• leading internal teams through the pursuit/proposal development process — from coordination to insightful contributions to the overall strategy and content development;
• facilitating capture planning activities, working collaboratively with technical staff;
• coordinating business development activities (research, presentations, events/conferences)
• Write and tailor non-technical content for pursuits/proposals and marketing materials.
• Participate in preparations for interviews and client presentations.
• Work with, and mentor, regional marketing specialists, including:
• monitoring opportunities (through lead tracking services, client websites, etc.) for distribution to team members, and
• managing and maintaining relevant content in SWCA’s marketing database, Deltek Vision.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, Communications, Business, Marketing, or related technical discipline (degrees in other specialties are acceptable if relevance can be demonstrated), or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience with the proposal development process.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including formatting in MS Word
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Exceptional planning, organizational, proofreading, writing, and formatting skills.
• Strong communication proficiency (verbal, written, and presentation).
• Ability to lead processes and work with multiple colleagues who have diverse interpersonal styles.
• Ability to multitask and to work with minimal supervision on multiple projects with fast-paced deadlines.

Preferred

• (5) years of experience with the proposal development process.
• Prior experience working within the A/E/C industry, or environmental consulting.
• Prior experience collaborating with the Business Development team(s) to pre-position and conduct capture planning for must-win efforts.
• Participation with associations and/or organizational marketing experience.
• Knowledge of local markets, including clientele and competition in environmental consulting.
• Experience working in Deltek Vision or Vantagepoint, or comparable CRM system.

Benefits

• SWCA Environmental Consultants is a growing employee-owned firm, providing a full-spectrum of environmental services. Our Vision (the North Star) is to make SWCA the best workplace and industry leader in sustainability, bringing sound science and creative solutions to global environmental challenges while maintaining a dedication to employee-ownership. We live our core values: we collaborate as #OneSWCA; we are #AlwaysLearning , we #NeverSettle, and we #GiveBack.
• We are 100% employee-owned , and we build our success together. With offices across the United States, SWCA is one of the largest environmental compliance firms and ranks among Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms . We offer a supportive, team-oriented work environment and competitive wages and benefits, including an 100% employee stock ownership plan (retirement).
• At SWCA, we support our team members in developing their careers to make them leaders in their industry. Our Career Landscape initiative is a process and guide designed to help develop chart rewarding career paths for employees at SWCA. We encourage professional conference attendance, internal and external professional development and training programs, education reimbursement, a Science and Leadership Program, and bonuses for publications meeting certain criteria. All regular status employees are eligible to participate in SWCA medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, wellness, life and disability plans, and are eligible to participate in the SWCA 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust.