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Contract Proposal Manager

Contract Proposal Manager

United States (Remote)

Open hourly rate

6-month contract – 20 hours per week

Fully remote (US-based)

 

A space & defense company is hiring a Proposal Manager to run competitive bids and multi-million-dollar proposal responses through a six-month engagement. The company working on a launch system and competing for commercial, defense and civil-space contracts, including NASA-class solicitations.

The pipeline is live and the technical story is strong. What’s needed is a proposal owner who has run government and commercial bids before, can pick up an active pursuit without a long runway, and can carry it from RFP release through compliant submission on a fixed clock.

What you’ll be doing

  • Break down complex RFPs into compliance and requirements matrices that the whole team works from
  • Own the proposal schedule from kickoff to submission, with no missed milestones
  • Coordinate engineers, pricing analysts, legal and leadership to gather technical and cost inputs on time
  • Edit technical narratives into clear, one-voice selling arguments and executive summaries
  • Run color reviews and drive recovery when sections fall behind
  • Check every document against FAR/DFARS and commercial procurement rules before delivery
  • Report bid status, risks and go/no-go inputs directly to the CEO

 

What you’ll need

  • 5+ years managing proposals for government, defense or commercial aerospace contracts
  • Track record on multi-million-dollar bids for agencies such as NASA, DoD or ESA
  • Fluency in FAR/DFARS and federal procurement compliance
  • Proven ability to build and maintain compliance matrices from complex solicitations
  • Strong technical editing: you can turn engineering input into persuasive, plain prose
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional inputs from engineering, pricing and legal
  • Disciplined schedule management under hard submission deadlines
  • Comfortable working part-time and remote with a small, fast-moving team
  • Clear, direct communication with senior leadership
  • US-based and eligible to work on ITAR-controlled programs

Nice to have

  • Shipley or APMP proposal methodology
  • SBIR/STTR, OTA or Space Force / NASA launch services solicitations
  • Capture management and pre-RFP customer shaping
  • Cost volume or basis-of-estimate coordination
  • Prior contract or independent consulting work, you land and add value fast

Interested? – Click apply with an updated copy of your resume. I’ll come back to you within 48 hours. If you don’t hear back within 48 hours, please assume you haven’t been successful on this occasion.