{"id":2049746,"url":"https://alion.io/job/icf-senior-solicitation-specialist","title":"Senior Solicitation Specialist","company":{"id":2632,"name":"ICF","domain":"icf.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/icf","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":17,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.059,"time_to_fill_p50_days":19,"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Reston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":61232,"max":104094,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":104094},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-07T21:15:09Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-12T23:14:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.\nICF is seeking a Senior Solicitation Specialist to lead planning and execution support for federal research solicitations and scientific or technical peer-review panels. This role works with project managers, serves as a task lead, coordinates proposal and reviewer information, and helps ensure that review activities meet schedule, quality, security, and client requirements. The position is contingent upon contract award.\nYou will translate complex review requirements into disciplined workflows so that reviewers, scientific and technical experts, and federal program staff can complete fair, well-documented, and timely proposal reviews.\nThe Work\nIn this role, you will lead assigned support activities across the solicitation and peer-review lifecycle, from solicitation development and proposal intake through panel execution, selection support, and closeout. You will organize panels and sub-panels, coordinate proposal and reviewer data, confirm venue and technology needs, interface with reviewers, monitor progress and quality, and report significant delivery risks. You will also provide day-to-day work direction and quality review for assigned support staff.\nJob Location and Client Requirements\nWork may be performed at an ICF or other contractor facility, a rented facility, or a client site in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, depending on program needs. The position may require domestic travel and on-site support for peer-review panels, workshops, and program meetings. No classified security clearance is required.\nKey Responsibilities:\nWork with program and project leadership to plan and administer proposal review activities across federal research solicitations, proposal receipt, peer review, selection support, and closeout. \nServe as a task lead for on-site and remote peer-review panels and lead the assigned support team through planning, execution, follow-up, and closeout. \nDevelop and maintain integrated workplans, schedules, milestone charts, trackers, checklists, roles, and operating procedures for assigned review activities. \nOrganize panels and sub-panels and ensure that proposal assignments, reviewer communications, meeting logistics, venue needs, and information-technology requirements are addressed. \nProvide solicitation, proposal, reviewer, and panel data in required formats; develop summary statistics and analytics; and conduct quality-control reviews for accuracy and completeness. \nLead assigned solicitation and proposal administration activities, including data tracking, approved postings and notifications, and use of grants-management and peer-review systems. \nInterface with panelists and reviewers regarding proposal review, travel, schedules, meeting access, remote communications, deadlines, and required documentation. \nTake notes on panel proceedings as requested and ensure that review records, decision-support materials, approved communications, and closeout documentation are complete and accurate. \nMonitor activities against solicitation deadlines and report significant slippages, delays, impediments, and proposed corrective actions to project leadership. \nEnsure assigned work conforms to established quality standards, schedules, confidentiality requirements, conflict-of-interest procedures, and approved review processes. \nManage or operate logistics systems that track reviewer information, including sensitive financial and personally identifiable information, in coordination with logistics staff. \nBasic Qualifications:\nHigh school diploma or GED; a college degree is preferred.\nAt least 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience providing business-process support; or a bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience providing business-process support.\nWillingness and ability to travel domestically and provide on-site support for peer-review panels, workshops, and program meetings when required.\nMust successfully complete a federal background investigation and obtain and maintain a Personal Identity Verification credential for required facility and system access\n.\nProfessional Skills:\nDemonstrated competence using workplace desktop applications such as Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365. \nStrong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to lead detailed workflows across concurrent panels, deliverables, and firm deadlines. \nAbility to interpret requirements, translate them into operating plans, monitor progress, and recommend corrective action when risks arise. \nClear and professional written and verbal communication with reviewers, scientific and technical experts, federal program staff, vendors, and delivery teams. \nSound judgment when resolving workflow, reviewer, data, technology, venue, schedule, or quality issues during active review periods. \nStrong attention to detail when handling proposal assignments, reviewer information, financial records, panel documentation, analytics, and quality-control activities. \nAbility to lead through influence, coordinate assigned support staff, review deliverables, and maintain accountability. \nPreferred Skills and Experience:\nExperience serving as a task lead for federal grants, research solicitations, merit review, proposal review, or scientific or technical peer-review panels. \nExperience supporting a federal research agency or another organization that manages competitive research funding. \nExperience using grants-management, peer-review, proposal-processing, reviewer-management, event-management, or virtual meeting systems; familiarity with Grants.gov is a plus. \nExperience developing proposal or review summary statistics, analytics, status reports, decision-support materials, or quality-control documentation. \nExperience coordinating concurrent panels or review cycles and applying confidentiality, conflict-of-interest, records-management, accessibility, or information-security procedures. \n*** Note this is a contingent role.\nBot and Third-Party Applications\nPlease note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration. Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact  for assistance.\nWorking at ICF\nICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer.Together, our employees are empowered to share theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.\nWe will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nReasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals withsincerely heldreligious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To requestan accommodation,please email  and we will be happy toassist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extentrequiredto provide needed reasonable accommodations.\nRead more about workplace discrimination rights or our benefit offerings which are included in the Transparency in (Benefits) CoverageAct.\nCandidate AI Usage Policy\nAt ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate orassistwith responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is notpermitted. This policy is in place tomaintainthe integrity and authenticity of the interview process.\nHowever, we understand that some candidates may require accommodationthat involves the use of AI. Ifsuch anaccommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at . Weare dedicated to providingthe necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.\nPay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final payfor a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.\nThe pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:\n$61,232.00 - $104,094.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)","description_format":"text","description_chars":9218,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy Efficiency","Digital Government","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-07T21:15:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":89,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.894,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":104094,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/icf-senior-solicitation-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/icf-senior-solicitation-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T02:34:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3901,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2632},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2632"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ficf-senior-solicitation-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ficf-senior-solicitation-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ficf-senior-solicitation-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/icf-senior-solicitation-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ficf-senior-solicitation-specialist"}]}