Location: Haryana
Apply by: 14 Jul 2023
Proposal Writer
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
At Outline India, our mission is to empower stakeholders in making data-driven decisions. We are a research and M&E consultancy firm, specialising in data collection within the social impact space. We undertake extensive data collection and research at the ground level, employing rigorous methodology, with quality checks at each stage, to ensure that our data is robust, relevant, reliable, and accountable towards achieving social impact.
Outline India focuses on catalysing the work of academics, think tanks, corporate social responsibility arms, not-for-profits, funders, and the Government of India. In the last ten years, we have worked on over 200 evaluations in 29 all Indian states and union territories, across over 60,000 villages, representing 5 million stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, settings, and sectors, intending to include their needs, opinions, and views to draft and inform the work of our partners and policymakers in a better way.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The proposal writer is responsible for developing winning proposals through strategic messaging, ensuring we're articulating the best story and value to clients in compelling and differentiated ways, developing innovative deliverables to visually tell that story, and strong project management.
At Outline India, the Proposal Writer may find himself or herself building proposals, liaising with clients, interacting and brainstorming with our in-house researchers, devising methodologies, working on pertinent research projects of interest and expertise, interviewing candidates, or evaluating tests among many other activities.
An association with Outline India allows the Proposal Writer to represent Outline India at various start-up and academic forums, serve as a panel participant at conferences, author research pieces or articles for academic journals or newspapers and visit rural or remote locations across India for field work and interaction with the locals.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Research companies, non-profits, RFPs, and grants
• Write documents that help with business development
• Edit written documents in a professional and credible manner
• Conduct interviews
• Help with reviewing products, services, and project ideas
• Help create strategies that help with the proposal development
• Rewrite proposals according to feedback
• Do presentations and create project schedules
• Write copies with a consistent tone
• Have an understanding of Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
• Previous experience in conducting interviews and creating strategies
• Work with coworkers such as graphic designers
• Create graphics and presentations with meeting deadlines
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Economics/ Sociology.
• 6+ years of proven experience in writing proposals.
• Understand and explain complex technical concepts.
• Write clear and concise proposals.
• Strong research and analytical skills and can work to tight deadlines.
• Experience in the Research industry proposal writing software, such as MS Word, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, or Adobe Photoshop.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office or Google Docs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
OPPORTUNITY: Full-time
SALARY: Based on experience
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates are required to send in their CVs with the subject line “Application for the position of Project Manager” to hr@outlineindia.com with the following included:
1. Current CTC:
2. Expected CTC:
3. Current Address:
4. Permanent Address:
5. Date by which you can join:
6. Willingness to relocate to Gurugram
7. Total years of professional full-time experience.
