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 can collaborate with engineering and marketing staff
- You have good time management and the ability to prioritize assignments
- You are unafraid to find new forms of messaging and how to implement them
- You can engage and build relationships with our technical engineering staff and proposal coordinators
- You are genuinely interested in learning about the world of water and wastewater engineering and the projects we deliver
Core responsibilities in this role will be to:
- Work with pursuit teams and proposal coordinators on win theme development and cover letters; identifying, crafting, and strengthening win themes; and maintaining the strategic vision throughout proposals or statement of qualifications
- Leading theming and 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 marketing collateral content specific to each pursuit or audience and updating existing collateral, 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.
- We have a great balance of proven processes, maintaining 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 (English, Marketing, Communications, Business, Advertising, Public Relations, or a related field)
- Willing and able to travel
Preferred Skills:
- Experience as a proposal coordinator or content writer for A/E/C firm
- Experience conveying technical content in an informal method for better reader comprehension
- Experience communicating, coordinating, and maintaining content messaging for marketing purposes
- 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 with maintaining writing styles and creating a unified voice
- Experience taking ownership of assignments, time management, prioritizing, organizing, researching, creative thinking, and problem solving
- Experience setting and communicating priorities to project teams, while managing multiple, often fast-paced projects
Grow With Us
Garver offers its employees programs such as company-paid professional memberships, company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities that foster a progressive atmosphere. Garver provides the tools, resources, and environment to develop leaders, stimulate ideas, and accomplish projects. By offering highly competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, and a comprehensive wellness program; Garver walks the talk when it comes to work-life balance.
Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental services firm focused on aviation, transportation, buildings, federal, water and wastewater services; surveying; advisory services; and construction engineering and inspection. In the top 100 of Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms list, with more than 1,400 employees, Garver provides an exceptional level of client service that reflects our people-first culture, which has achieved Zweig Group Best Firm to Work For Legacy Status. Learn how Garver invests in people and places they call home at GarverUSA.com.
Garver is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Our employment practices are based upon an individual's capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
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