Marketing Specialist - Dikita

Who We Are

Dikita is an award-winning engineering and program management consulting firm that proudly celebrates more than four decades of contributing to the nation’s infrastructure. We are proud of our firm’s excellent reputation in meeting aggressive schedules, effectively managing costs, assembling multi-disciplined project teams, and providing our clients with the specialized attention and to deliver successful solutions.

Who You Are

The Marketing Specialist reports to the Director of Business Development and will manage the firm’s digital marketing and proposal processes; and support a winning business development culture in the architectural/engineering/construction (A/E/C) and transit market research industry. In addition to proposal preparation, the professional will be responsible for branding, social media, and the company website.

What You'll Do

 Proposal Production

• Under the direction of the Director of Business Development, coordinate, and manage the proposal (RFP & RFQ) processes.
• Support the firm’s marketing and communication initiatives, including preparation and coordination of engineering, construction management, and transit market research proposals, resumes, qualifications, presentations, letters, reports, brochures, press releases and other communications.
• Ensure quality results by following proposal writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone.
• Handle multiple revisions, edit/re-edit proposal sections as needed and ensure proposals maintain a consistent message, tone, and voice.
• Facilitate, coordinate, and participate in kick-off meetings and proposal production activities.
• Collaborate with senior management, Subject Matter Experts, engineers, project managers, and technical staff to develop, innovative technical approaches, and sound technical solutions.
• Coordinate with consultant firms for teaming and gathering marketing materials.
• Produce PowerPoint presentations through collaboration and coordination with teams and oversee final production of presentation materials.
• Facilitate preparations for project interviews and client presentations.

Branding and Marketing Material

• Create professional marketing materials including brochures, website content, company profile, company project descriptions, and employee resumes for proposals.
• Maintain marketing database of proposals and collateral material.
• Develop, manage, and maintain website content, including updates on project information, community involvement, and company highlights.
• Manage the firm’s employer brand profiles on LinkedIn, and other appropriate social channels.
• Capture and analyze key social media metrics (optional.)
• Coordinate other special projects such as conferences, sponsorship opportunities, and client/company events.
• Other duties as assigned.

Business Development

• Assist in monitoring various electronic website sources to gather and disseminate information about upcoming opportunities.
• Represent the company by attending meetings and events with potential and existing clients and partners.
• Maintain the CRM system.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing or Journalism preferred.
• Minimum five years of experience managing the proposal process.
• Knowledge and understanding of the industries we serve.
• Experience responding to government solicitations is preferred.
• Excellent business writing and editing skills as well as attention to detail are required.
• Strong time management skills and organizational skills are essential.
• Exceptional graphic design and layout skills.
• Advanced/Expert computer skills – Windows, MS Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, and InDesign.
• Must be able to coordinate a diverse team of professionals and be a team player.
• Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced team environment.
• Multi-tasking skills are essential.
• Must have exceptional inter-personal skills, and act with tack, diplomacy.
• Must have a proven record of managing the proposal process to produce relevant and winning proposals.

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