Strategic Writer

Looking for an opportunity to combine your writing skills with marketing creativity, while growing your career?

Garver’s Water Business Line is growing and looking for a Strategic Writer with strong writing skills and an ability to think creatively and strategically to develop client-specific messaging. This role calls for a collaborative teammate capable of comprehending and subsequently enhancing complex information, as well as understanding how to coordinate with diverse teams to get the desired information on tight deadlines.

This position will report to our Content Strategist and work closely with our pursuit leaders, business planning managers, content strategist, and proposal coordinators. Current Proposal Coordinators or Content Writers looking for career growth would be ideal candidates for this position.

Who You Are:

You are able to collaborate with engineering and marketing staff
You have good time management and an ability to prioritize assignments
You are unafraid to find new forms of messaging and how to implement them
You have an ability to engage and relationship-build with our technical engineering staff and proposal coordinators
You are genuinely interested in the water and wastewater projects we deliver and how they profoundly affect our quality of life

Core responsibilities in this role will be to:

Work with pursuit teams and proposal coordinators on win-theme development, cover letters, identifying, crafting, strengthening win themes, and maintaining the strategic vision throughout proposals or statement of qualifications
Leading storyboarding for strategic pursuits
Customizing content for strategic pursuit proposals as part of maintaining strategic vision
Collaborate with pursuit teams and proposal coordinators on crafting, proofing, and reviewing presentation/interview and leave behind messaging and content specific to each pursuit or audience and updating PowerPoint presentations, when necessary
Assist with drafting abstracts and presentation outlines for conferences
Coordinate with the Water Business Planning Managers, Regional Water Directors, Content Strategist, and Garver’s Communications Team on messaging for printed and digital marketing collateral
Develop and coordinate content for marketing collateral requests, such as fact sheets and brochures
Draft and coordinate award submissions for industry associations (ACEC awards)
Maintain and review content database, including bios, project descriptions, text library information, and other content as requested

What is unique about this position:

We are most interested in finding a passionate, driven, collaborative teammate and less concerned about candidates having 100% of the job experience identified in this description. We will coach, mentor, and train the right candidate for this position.
You will have the opportunity to flex your creative muscle by contributing to annual business-line-wide initiatives such as award-winning series like Behind the Scenes Operators and the Wednesday Water Webcast.
We have a great balance of proven processes, ensuring consistency across the business line, with flexibility and autonomy.

Basic Requirements:

Minimum of 5 years previous proposal development experience in the Architectural/Engineering/Construction (A/E/C) industry
Provide three writing samples (persuasive, technical, conversational)
Provide cover letter
Proficient user of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Bachelor’s degree (Business, Advertising, Communications, Graphic Design, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing, or a related field)
Willing and able to travel

Preferred Skills:

Experience communicating, coordinating, and maintaining content messaging for marketing purposes
Experience with maintaining writing styles and creating a unified voice
Experience conveying technical content in an informal method for better reader comprehension
Experience taking ownership of assignments, time management, prioritizing, organizing, researching, creative thinking, and problem solving
Experience working with internal clients to provide drafts and incorporate feedback and meeting internal and external deadlines for assignments, such as proposals, abstracts, award submissions, and advertorials
Experience setting and communicating priorities to project teams, while managing multiple, often fast-paced projects simultaneously