Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Geosyntec Consultants is seeking a Marketing & Proposal Specialist to support technical practitioners across California. The role develops compliant proposals and statements of qualifications, coordinates pursuit strategy and submissions, maintains marketing content, and supports campaigns and research.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate all aspects of proposal and SOQ preparation, including schedule tracking, team communications, and final production
- Execute assigned proposal tasks with accuracy and minimal oversight
- Lead the development and formatting of proposal content, ensuring compliance, clarity, and strong alignment with client needs and win themes
- Maintain pursuit schedules and proactively communicate status updates, task reminders, and deadlines to technical and marketing teams
- Support proposal kickoff and strategy meetings; prepare summary communications following check-ins
- Assemble, organize, and archive proposal materials, including resumes, bios, project descriptions, and boilerplate text
- Update and maintain proposal logs with status and outcomes; follow up on award results and capture debriefs when available
- Prepare client-facing materials such as presentations, graphics, and supporting documentation
- Coordinate with technical teams and consultants to collect and organize pursuit content across shared platforms (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, etc.)
- Maintain and manage procurement portals (e.g., PlanetBids, Ariba), including solicitation tracking, categorization, and email monitoring
- Ensure timely and accurate proposal submission, supporting both digital and print production as needed
- Draft content such as cover letters, executive summaries, project descriptions, and resumes with a focus on clarity, accuracy, and impact
- Assist in preparing storyboards and early graphics planning for proposals and marketing materials; coordinate graphics support requests in a timely manner
- Create first drafts of internal and external announcements; route for review and implement edits as directed
- Collaborate with marketing teams and subject matter experts to update and develop new content, including brochures, flyers, and campaign materials
- Maintain and organize content libraries (resumes, project sheets, proposal templates, visuals, etc.), ensuring accuracy and accessibility for future pursuits
- Coordinate resume and project updates from practitioners, including new hires
- Maintain systems to extract, categorize, and retrieve information related to clients, consultants, personnel, projects, prior proposals, boilerplate, and visuals
- Contribute to internal campaigns or newsletters by drafting and editing content as requested
- Support the coordination and execution of targeted marketing campaigns, including planning, materials creation, analytics review, and follow-up
- Conduct research on clients, competitors, and markets to support pre-positioning and pursuit strategies
- Assist in preparing award submittals, presentations, and special initiatives that promote brand awareness or market positioning
- Build strong working relationships with technical teams and marketing peers
- Support collaboration across disciplines, offices, and with corporate marketing, HGA partners, and MPCD
- Assist with proofreading, editing, and layout tasks for internal and external communications
- Participate in special projects and other assignments as needed to support marketing and business development priorities
Skills
- A bachelor's degree in marketing, journalism, communications, or public relations with four (4) years or more of progressive professional experience in engineering, architecture, or commercial construction is required or eight (8) years of directly related experience or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the responsibilities of the position
- Progressive professional experience includes performing increasingly complex and varied technical and project assignments in the field of marketing and advertising and prior experience leading proposal teams
- Working knowledge of the following Microsoft products is required: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Teams, and SharePoint
- Proficiency in Adobe InDesign experience
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret marketing, technical, and other business documents
- Ability to interview technical practitioners for marketing materials and proposals
- Ability to author marketing materials and correspondence that is well written and organized, clearly presented, focused on the subject at hand and furthers the Geosyntec “brand”
- Ability to create effective presentations and respond to inquiries from internal and external clients
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
- Ability to write in a marketing and/or journalistic manner
- Familiarity with graphic design and production, desktop publishing and presentation software
- Possess an understanding and/or experience of (i) the RFQ/RFP process, (ii) techniques associated with the evaluation of promotional activities, (iii) federal, state and local procurement procedures, and (iv) activities associated with the development and evaluation of marketing plans and their effectiveness
- Availability to work standard business hours aligned within the Pacific Time Zone
Benefits
- The opportunity to work a fully remote schedule from your home-office may be available for this position at the discretion of the Company; must be available to work standard business hours aligned within the Pacific Time Zone.
- Paid holidays, vacation, sick, and personal paid time off
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Other benefits to eligible employees
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