Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the lead writer of the technical proposal, producing technical drafts for review that are compliant with and responsive to donor solicitation requirements. 

• Review the solicitation and referenced documents. Participate in designing a technical approach. Lead and facilitate design sessions as needed. 

• Provide technical inputs and ideas on technical design 

• Add to list of questions for donor and participate in designing a project participant targeting strategy. 

• Conduct research on the country context, competition, and local successful approaches to inform the technical approach and the development of the technical application.     

• Review research on current/past projects, participate in live proposal design sessions, and synthesize other key documents and information that the team has on file or that will need to be secured from local consultants or other sources. 

• Review and help craft key questions to fill gaps in knowledge, along with Winrock’s local staff/consultant, the Proposal Lead and Technical Lead, to collect information from key local stakeholders, e.g., youth, government line ministry contacts, training providers, local NGOs, and private sector informants.  

• Ensure that the design framework is properly integrated as well as compliant with donor requirements and evaluation criteria.  

• Incorporate win themes, competitive themes, and other strategic content into the proposal outline. 

• Ensure that the final proposal content tells a persuasive story. 

• Provide inputs and feedback to the Proposal Manager on the proposal calendar. 

• Collaborate with Proposal Lead and team to write a technical proposal that is responsive to the solicitation and its requirements and addresses all merit review criteria and considerations including relevant donor policies.   

• Prepare pink, red, and gold team drafts, addressing comments and revisions provided by the reviews.  

• Complete proposal subsections as assigned in proposal template provided by Winrock, including relevant tables, graphics, text boxes, and highlights as necessary. 

• Support in “one voicing” other subsections of proposal written by different content contributors 

• Work closely with the Winrock HREE proposal design team by maintaining consistent communication and meeting all assigned deadlines.  

• Other related responsibilities as may be required. 

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a lead technical writer on proposals for USG-funded projects 

• Exceptional writing and editing skills 

• Knowledge and work experience preferred on child labor, child protection, education, or trafficking-in-persons  

• Experience in consolidating and analyzing information from multiple sources 

• Ability to manage available time and work on tight deadlines