Director, Proposal Operations

Advocates for Human Potential, (AHP) is seeking a strategic, collaborative and results-driven Director of Proposal Operations to lead and continuously improve our enterprise proposal function. This role serves as the architect of AHP’s proposal excellence through establishing standards, processes, coaching and operational discipline that will enable AHP to consistently deliver compelling and competitive proposals across federal, state and municipal government opportunities. AHP currently produces over one hundred proposals on an annual basis. The Director will have professional experience commensurate with that level of production at a successful level and will be able to demonstrate how AHP can scale its production and success rates upward.

Working within AHP’s Strategic Development department, the Director will work closely with Managing Directors, Program Directors, subject matter experts, finance and executive leadership to build proposal excellence across the organization. This individual will champion Shipley-based best practices while ensuring proposal strategy, win themes, pricing, storytelling and production are integrated into a seamless proposal development process that maximizes AHP’s probability of winning. Further, this position will develop an annual strategic plan for proposal operations outlining goals, objectives and strategies for the year to ensure ever greater overall success, leveraging all of the assets, expertise and technology available to them at AHP

The Director will lead the Proposal Operations team while serving as an internal advisor and coach to proposal managers, capture leaders and technical experts. Beyond managing individual pursuits, this leader will continuously strengthen AHP’s proposal capability by standardizing processes, developing reusable assets, improving proposal quality, identifying opportunities for innovation and the integration of technology best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and c