Senior Proposal Analyst at Spry Methods – McLean, Virginia

Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview):

The Senior Proposal Analyst provides analytical, compliance, and content-integration leadership across federal proposal efforts, supporting pursuits from RFP release through submission. This role combines deep understanding of solicitation requirements with hands-on proposal development experience to ensure responses are compliant, well-structured, evaluator-focused, and on schedule.

The Senior Proposal Analyst serves as a key execution partner to the Proposal Manager—owning compliance artifacts, contributing to narrative development, managing cross-volume consistency, and ensuring proposal content aligns to evaluation criteria and win strategy.

Proposal Analysis & Compliance

· Analyze solicitation documents (RFPs, RFQs, RTOPs, RFIs), with emphasis on Sections L and M or agency-specific equivalents.

· Develop and maintain compliance matrices, annotated outlines, and requirement traceability tools.

· Identify compliance risks, gaps, and ambiguities and elevate them to proposal leadership.

· Support interpretation of evaluation criteria and ensure proposal content is explicitly aligned.

Proposal Development & Content Support

· Contribute to writing and editing of proposal sections, including technical, management, staffing, transition, and past performance narratives, as assigned.

· Translate capture strategy and win themes into evaluator-focused structure and messaging.

· Ensure consistency in terminology, tone, and positioning across volumes and contributors.

· Support integration of graphics, tables, and call-outs to reinforce key messages.

Execution & Coordination Support

· Support the Proposal Manager with proposal schedules, trackers, and daily execution oversight.

· Coordinate inputs from writers, SMEs, volume leads, pricing, and contracts teams.

· Track progress against deadlines and follow up on assigned actions and deliverables.

Review & Quality Control

· Support planning and execution of color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), including preparation of review materials.

· Log, track, and help adjudicate review comments to ensure timely and accurate resolution.

· Perform quality checks for completeness, clarity, consistency, and responsiveness prior to final submission.

Process Improvement & Knowledge Management

· Contribute to maintenance of proposal templates, checklists, and standard operating procedures.

· Support development and curation of reusable proposal content and lessons learned.

· Mentor junior proposal staff and support proposal process maturity.

· Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, English, Political Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

· 5+ years of experience supporting federal proposal development in a GovCon environment.

· Demonstrated experience with proposal compliance, Section L/M analysis, and requirement traceability.

· Strong analytical, writing, and organizational skills.

· Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.

· Experience supporting DoD, DOJ, DHS, HHS, or other federal civilian agency proposals.

· Familiarity with FAR/DFARS-based procurements, IDIQs, and task-order competitions.

· Experience supporting large, multi-volume proposals and accelerated response timelines.

· Prior experience acting as a lead analyst or deputy proposal manager.