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Job Description
Scope of the Project:
Seeks an expert in Technical Writer for writing RFPs for complex projects to be procured.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a BA Technical Writer who will write RFPs using the agency template for at least 5 different projects that the agency needs to procure.
General Duties:
Desired Skills and Experience:
Required Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
Preferred Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
Required Education:
Additional Skills/Duties:
Seeks an expert in Technical Writer for writing RFPs for complex projects to be procured.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a BA Technical Writer who will write RFPs using the agency template for at least 5 different projects that the agency needs to procure.
General Duties:
- Attend and facilitate various meetings to get missing language and details to draft the RFP.
- Development of RFPs that include scope of work, technical requirements, staff, deliverables, etc. for each project.
- Review and write the business needs in the RFP.
- Identify mandatory requirements, page limits, formatting rules, and scoring criteria.
- Gather information from Subject Matter Experts, past proposals, and leadership to ensure completeness in each RFP.
- Assist management in getting the responses needed for compliance requirements.
- Works with Medicaid Systems leadership to create and update the RFPs.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of technical writing experience in positions requiring the development of structured written materials and visual aids.
- Must possess advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) to include working with templates and style guidelines for branding consistency.
- Ability to interact with project team members, management, and agency departments and to build out required sections in the RFP.
- Attention to detail to avoid missing requirements that can disqualify a bid.
- Experience with procurements for state agency.
- Experience working with SharePoint and other typical project management tools, including Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project, Word, Access and Excel.
- Ability to create and document key project management requirements.
- Superb communications skills (written and oral).
- Effective listener.
- Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations; ability to get people with competing, diverse interests to work together.
- Experience in Medicaid or other healthcare claims system(s) IT projects preferred, but not mandatory.
- Must be able to manage multiple high profile, high priority projects at one time.
Required Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
- 2 years of technical writing experience.
- Must possess advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) to include working with templates and style guidelines for branding consistency.
Preferred Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
- Ability to interact with project team members, management, and departments.
- Previous public sector work experience.
- Experience in Medicaid or other healthcare claims system(s) IT projects preferred.
Required Education:
- Bachelor's Degree
Additional Skills/Duties:
- People skills
- Superb written and oral communications skills.
- Strong proficiency in English is required.
- Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis.
Required Skills
Technical Writing
Medicaid
healthcare
SharePoint