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United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.\nAbout Red Cell Federal\nRed Cell Federal builds AI-powered, mission-ready capabilities for the U.S. government. We turn complex government needs into repeatable, high-impact solutions.\nThe Role\nRed Cell Federal is seeking a Senior Federal Proposal Writer (1099) to develop clear, persuasive, and compliant responses to federal solicitations. You will turn capture strategy and complex technical input into strong proposal content.\nYou will work with the Proposal Manager, capture leads, Solutions Architects, product leaders, and subject matter experts. This role sits in the Operations Cell under the COO and reports to the Proposal Manager.\nThis is a remote, project-based 1099 engagement. Work is assigned on demand, and no minimum volume is guaranteed.\nWhat You’ll Do\nWrite and edit technical approaches, management and staffing plans, transition plans, past performance, executive summaries, white papers, solution briefs, and other response content.\nReview solicitations, SOWs, PWSs, instructions, and evaluation criteria, including Sections L and M.\nBuild compliant outlines, storyboards, content plans, and compliance matrices.\nInterview SMEs, program managers, key personnel, and product leaders; turn their input into clear proposal text.\nApply capture strategy, customer priorities, win themes, discriminators, benefits, and proof points.\nAddress review comments and produce clean, submission-ready revisions on tight deadlines.\nMaintain a consistent voice and message across multi-author responses.\nMaintain reusable past-performance, corporate-experience, management, and technical content.\nFlag missing inputs, compliance gaps, conflicting guidance, and schedule risks early.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nAt least five years of federal proposal-writing experience in government contracting.\nExperience with Shipley or a similar proposal-development process.\nStrong knowledge of federal solicitations, FAR/DFARS concepts, Sections L and M, and evaluation criteria.\nA record of contributing to successful federal civilian or defense proposals.\nAbility to understand and explain complex topics such as AI/ML, autonomy, cybersecurity, software platforms, defense hardware, advanced communications, and health technology.\nStrong interviewing, writing, editing, and collaboration skills.\nAbility to protect sensitive company, customer, partner, and procurement information.\nU.S. citizenship.\nAn independent-contractor business setup and the ability to provide a W-9.\nBonus Points\nCurrent APMP certification.\nActive Secret or Top Secret U.S. Government security clearance.\nExperience with OTA, CSO, BAA, and SBIR/STTR submissions for national-security organizations.\nEngagement Details\nCompensation: Hourly, based on experience.\nAssignments: Each assignment will define its scope, deliverables, milestones, deadlines, acceptance criteria, estimated hours, and authorized maximum.\nAvailability: You must acknowledge assignment requests within one business day. Active proposals may require faster response times when agreed in advance.\nHours: You may work up to 40 hours in a workweek within an approved assignment. The COO must approve additional hours in writing before the work is performed. Work outside the approved scope or authorized maximum also requires advance written approval.\nEquipment: You must provide a secure workspace, reliable high-speed internet, suitable computer hardware, Microsoft Office 365, PDF-editing tools, and other standard software. The company may provide specific systems when needed.\nConfidentiality: You must follow all applicable confidentiality, data-protection, system-access, records-management, and information-handling requirements.\nConflicts: You must disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest.\nWhat We Look For\nAt Red Cell, culture is defined by how our people live our values every day. We look for people who are DEDICATED and passionate about their work; COLLABORATIVE communicators who help where needed; PRINCIPLED and accountable; and THOROUGH, with pride in the quality of what they produce.\nRed Cell Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.\nHourly Range: $100 - $140 \nOur Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation):\nFor full-time roles\nCareer track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows \n100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.\nPaid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.\nUnlimited PTO, with management approval.\nOpportunities for professional development and continued learning.\nOptional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.\nMental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. \nCost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux. \nWe’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.\nApplicant Data Disclosure \nBy submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC (\"Red Cell\") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, \"Hiring Platforms\"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes: \nManaging and administering your application throughout the hiring process; \nVerifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases; \nIdentifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories. \nApplications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact . \nRed Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. 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