Senior Solicitation Specialist

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States of America. Work may be performed remotely through the nationwide U.S. remote office, at an hirify.global or contractor facility, a rented facility, or a client site in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Domestic travel and on-site support for peer-review panels, workshops, and program meetings may be required.

Salary: $61,232–$104,094 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a mission-driven advisory and technology services provider supporting clients with complex challenges through expertise and technology.

What you will do

• Plan and administer federal research solicitations, proposal intake, peer review, selection support, and closeout activities.
• Lead on-site and remote peer-review panels, sub-panels, and assigned support staff throughout planning, execution, follow-up, and closeout.
• Develop workplans, schedules, milestone trackers, checklists, roles, and operating procedures for review activities.
• Coordinate proposal assignments, reviewer communications, meeting logistics, venues, technology, travel, and remote access.
• Prepare proposal, reviewer, and panel data, summary statistics, analytics, status reports, and decision-support materials.
• Monitor deadlines, quality, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and delivery risks, and report corrective actions to project leadership.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED; a college degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in business-process support, or a bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of such experience.
• Ability to travel domestically and provide on-site support for peer-review panels, workshops, and program meetings when required.
• Ability to complete a federal background investigation and obtain and maintain a Personal Identity Verification credential.
• Strong planning, organization, communication, judgment, attention to detail, and ability to lead through influence.
• Proficiency with workplace desktop applications such as Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365.

Nice to have

• Experience leading federal grants, research solicitations, merit reviews, proposal reviews, or scientific and technical peer-review panels.
• Experience supporting a federal research agency or an organization managing competitive research funding.
• Experience with grants-management, peer-review, proposal-processing, reviewer-management, event-management, or virtual meeting systems; Grants.gov familiarity is a plus.
• Experience with review analytics, status reporting, quality-control documentation, confidentiality, conflict-of-interest, records-management, accessibility, or information-security procedures.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on improving lives and addressing complex challenges.
• Inclusive workplace that embraces difference and supports equal opportunity.
• Remote, facility-based, and client-site work arrangements depending on program needs.
• Full-time employment with compensation determined by experience, skills, certifications, location, education, and contract requirements.