Ibiska - www.ibiska.com

Proposal Writer

Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Ottawa

Overview

IBISKA is well established consulting company, both in IT and Non IT, in the areas of Project Management, Business Consulting / Change Management, ICT Infrastructure, Applications / Database Development, IT Security, and HR / Organizational Development.
We are looking for a proposal writer to assist in developing, writing, formatting and packaging proposals within IBISKA’s Proposal Response Team.
The role involves working in collaboration with the sales and recruiting teams in the pre-qualification of candidates under IBISKA’s current contracts; the development of responses to call ups including writing responses to criteria grids; gathering up all required documents, and formatting the proposal for submission.

Qualifications/Abilities:

Should have at least 1 year of demonstrated experience in a proposal writing role specifically in writing qualification grids in response to professional services RFPs for the Government of Canada.
Must have excellent writing skills in the English language.
Must be proficient and have demonstrated experience with MS Word: specifically using MS Word templates and styles, section breaks and table of contents.
Should have demonstrated experience using Adobe Acrobat including conversion of Word documents to pdf format and working with pdf documents (extracting/inserting files etc).

Additional Qualification:

Must have demonstrated experience working collaboratively in a small team environment.
Must be able to work within a fast pace environment with aggressive deadlines.
Must be comfortable interfacing with various professionals (technical or management) to obtain relevant information for bids.
Must provide 2 references from previous relevant experience

Required personal attributes:

Pro-active/self starter.
Works well under pressure.
Takes pride in own work.
Attention to detail.
Team player - good communications skills.
Good interpersonal skills.

If this position interests you, and you have the required experience, please respond with your resume along with a letter explaining why you feel you are suitable and why you are interested in the position to resume@ibiska.com. Only candidates that are selected for an interview will be contacted.