[Hiring] Senior Proposal Writer @Aon

Role Description

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Senior Proposal Writer to join our RFP and Proposal Management Office. This is an outstanding chance to be part of a team that builds NFP’s future through strategic, persuasive, and flawless proposal responses. If you are passionate about translating business and technical information into clear, compelling content, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop compelling, client-focused content that communicates NFP’s value proposition, experience, capabilities, and competitive differentiators.
• Analyze solicitation requirements and transform them into responsive, accurate, and persuasive proposal content.
• Partner with proposal managers, sales leaders, subject matter experts, compliance, legal, and other interested parties to prepare and confirm content.
• Provide strategic editorial direction related to messaging, structure, tone, consistency, and readability.
• Review complete proposal drafts for compliance, responsiveness, accuracy, completeness, grammar, and formatting.
• Identify content gaps, risks, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the overall response.
• Lead conversations and interviews on content creation with subject matter experts.
• Adapt technical or complex information for client and prospect audiences.
• Develop executive summaries, cover letters, case studies, qualifications narratives, and other high-impact proposal content.
• Mentor and provide constructive feedback to proposal writers and other contributors.
• Maintain and improve the proposal content library by updating materials, removing redundancies, and identifying reusable high-quality content.
• Maintain strong knowledge of NFP’s services, solutions, markets, competitors, and business priorities.
• Support special projects, training initiatives, and other responsibilities as assigned.
• Travel as required.

Qualifications

• Outstanding writing, editing, proofreading, and reading-comprehension skills.
• Proven ability to develop clear, persuasive, client-focused content for complex proposal responses.
• Extensive experience addressing formal RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs, including familiarity with compliance, legal, and submission requirements.
• Ability to work independently, exercise good judgment, and manage multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Experience providing editorial guidance, peer review, coaching, or mentoring.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, OneNote, and SharePoint.
• Experience with proposal management or content-library platforms preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required; degree in business, communications, English, journalism, marketing, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 5–7 years of progressively responsible RFP and proposal-writing experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• PTO & paid holidays
• 401(k) with match
• Exclusive discount programs
• Health & wellness programs
• Performance-based incentives