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Proposal Coordinator roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Employers file a PERM labor certification with DOL before sponsoring permanent residency. Roles in government contracting, defense, and professional services firms are among the most active sponsors.
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Myers & Sons Construction is seeking an experienced Proposal Manager to lead the development of compelling, technically strong, and highly competitive proposals for major transportation and infrastructure projects. This person can work in any of our three offices (Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver). The Proposal Manager will lead pursuits from opportunity identification and RFP review through strategy development, proposal production, final submission, and interview preparation. Working directly with company executives, project leadership, estimators, schedulers, engineers, designers, joint venture partners, and technical specialists, this individual will transform complex technical information into clear, persuasive proposals that demonstrate why Myers is the right team for the project. The ideal candidate combines strong proposal leadership, exceptional writing and editing skills, strategic thinking, organization, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary pursuit teams under demanding deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the complete proposal process for RFQs, SOQs, technical proposals, alternative-delivery pursuits, shortlist interviews, and other strategic pursuits.
- Analyze RFQs/RFPs and procurement documents to identify client priorities, evaluation criteria, compliance requirements, differentiators, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop pursuit strategies, win themes, key messages, differentiators, and proof points that clearly communicate Myers' value to the client.
- Establish proposal execution plans, including compliance matrices, outlines, schedules, assignments, review milestones, and production requirements.
- Lead proposal kickoff, strategy, progress, and review meetings, maintaining accountability for assignments and deadlines.
- Direct and coordinate multidisciplinary pursuit teams, including executives, operations personnel, estimators, schedulers, technical specialists, joint venture partners, designers, consultants, and subcontractors.
- Write, edit, and develop persuasive proposal content, translating complex construction and technical concepts into clear, client-focused narratives.
- Guide technical contributors in developing responses that directly address evaluation criteria and communicate measurable client benefits.
- Manage proposal development and production from initial concept through final quality review, assembly, and submission.
- Lead development of resumes, project profiles, organizational charts, staffing plans, technical approaches, graphics, and other proposal components.
- Coordinate shortlist interview development, including presentation strategy, storyboarding, presentation materials, talking points, rehearsals, and coaching.
- Partner with leadership and operations teams on capture planning and positioning for strategic pursuits before the RFP is released.
- Coordinate with joint venture and teaming partners to establish consistent messaging, responsibilities, schedules, and deliverables.
- Conduct quality and compliance reviews to ensure proposals are responsive, accurate, compelling, and visually polished.
- Participate in client debriefs and capture lessons learned to continuously improve future pursuits.
- Maintain and enhance Myers' proposal resources, including resumes, project descriptions, boilerplate content, photography, graphics, and pursuit information.
- Mentor and provide direction to proposal coordinators and other marketing/proposal staff.
- Manage multiple concurrent pursuits while maintaining quality, responsiveness, and deadlines.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, English, Business, Construction Management, or a related field preferred. Equivalent relevant professional experience will be considered.
Experience
- 7+ years of professional proposal development, technical writing, marketing, or related experience, preferably within the construction, engineering, architecture, or infrastructure industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex proposals from RFP through final submission.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing contributors who are not direct reports.
- Strong experience writing and editing technical proposal content.
- Experience with Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, CM/GC, CMAR, or other alternative-delivery procurements strongly preferred.
- Experience with transportation infrastructure—including aviation, highways, bridges, transit, rail, or heavy civil construction—is highly desirable.
- Experience developing shortlist presentations and supporting interview teams preferred.
The seven-year threshold is consistent with the Proposal Manager benchmark you provided, which requires seven years of professional technical writing and proposal preparation experience as well as experience coordinating or supervising proposal personnel.
Knowledge, Skills + Abilities
- Exceptional technical and persuasive writing skills, with the ability to turn complex information into concise, compelling narratives.
- Strong understanding of proposal strategy, development, production, and quality-control processes.
- Ability to quickly interpret complex RFQs/RFPs and identify what matters most to the client.
- Ability to develop and communicate win themes, differentiators, benefits, and proof points throughout a proposal.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate people who are not direct reports.
- Exceptional organizational and project-management skills.
- Ability to confidently facilitate meetings involving executives, project managers, technical experts, and teaming partners.
- Strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple high-priority pursuits simultaneously.
- Ability to remain effective, organized, and solutions-focused under demanding deadlines.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe InDesign preferred.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, CRM systems, and proposal/content databases is a plus.
- Flexibility to work extended hours when required to meet major pursuit deadlines.
- Ability to travel as needed for pursuit meetings, strategy sessions, and interviews.
What Success Looks Like
A successful Proposal Manager at Myers does more than manage a deadline or assemble a document. This individual drives the pursuit forward —understanding what the client values, challenging the team to strengthen its response, identifying gaps early, extracting the best ideas from technical experts, and translating those ideas into a clear and compelling reason to select Myers. The Proposal Manager brings strategy, people, technical content, and presentation together into one cohesive pursuit and maintains ownership from kickoff through submission and interview. At Myers & Sons Construction, proposals are an extension of how we pursue and deliver work: collaboratively, strategically, and with a Project First mindset. Our pursuit teams compete for complex infrastructure projects where technical expertise, innovative thinking, alternative-delivery experience, and strong partnerships matter. The Proposal Manager will work directly with company leadership and some of the industry's leading contractors, designers, engineers, and specialty partners to pursue significant infrastructure projects throughout the West.
Benefits:
- Health Insurance (Medical/Dental/Vision) - our company covers 80% of the healthcare cost for our employees and their dependents. Employees are responsible for the remaining 20%, which is pre-taxable.
- Company provided vehicle or car allowance and fuel card.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)/Dependent Care FSA
- 401K with 8% Match
- Life insurance
- Voluntary insurance plans available - Accident/Critical Illness/Cancer/Hospital Indemnity/Life and AD&D
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Work in a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, support and mutual respect.
Myers & Sons Construction is a Heavy Civil Construction Company. We specialize in Bridge Construction, Bridge Restoration, Roadway Rehabilitation, Water/Wastewater Treatment Plants, Concrete Bridge Overlays, Concrete Paving and Alternative Delivery Projects, including Design Build, CMGC, CMAR and Progressive Design Build throughout California and Colorado. Myers & Sons Construction is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer regardless of race, color, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Position Summary
Myers & Sons Construction is seeking an experienced Proposal Manager to lead the development of compelling, technically strong, and highly competitive proposals for major transportation and infrastructure projects. This person can work in any of our three offices (Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver). The Proposal Manager will lead pursuits from opportunity identification and RFP review through strategy development, proposal production, final submission, and interview preparation. Working directly with company executives, project leadership, estimators, schedulers, engineers, designers, joint venture partners, and technical specialists, this individual will transform complex technical information into clear, persuasive proposals that demonstrate why Myers is the right team for the project. The ideal candidate combines strong proposal leadership, exceptional writing and editing skills, strategic thinking, organization, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary pursuit teams under demanding deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the complete proposal process for RFQs, SOQs, technical proposals, alternative-delivery pursuits, shortlist interviews, and other strategic pursuits.
- Analyze RFQs/RFPs and procurement documents to identify client priorities, evaluation criteria, compliance requirements, differentiators, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop pursuit strategies, win themes, key messages, differentiators, and proof points that clearly communicate Myers' value to the client.
- Establish proposal execution plans, including compliance matrices, outlines, schedules, assignments, review milestones, and production requirements.
- Lead proposal kickoff, strategy, progress, and review meetings, maintaining accountability for assignments and deadlines.
- Direct and coordinate multidisciplinary pursuit teams, including executives, operations personnel, estimators, schedulers, technical specialists, joint venture partners, designers, consultants, and subcontractors.
- Write, edit, and develop persuasive proposal content, translating complex construction and technical concepts into clear, client-focused narratives.
- Guide technical contributors in developing responses that directly address evaluation criteria and communicate measurable client benefits.
- Manage proposal development and production from initial concept through final quality review, assembly, and submission.
- Lead development of resumes, project profiles, organizational charts, staffing plans, technical approaches, graphics, and other proposal components.
- Coordinate shortlist interview development, including presentation strategy, storyboarding, presentation materials, talking points, rehearsals, and coaching.
- Partner with leadership and operations teams on capture planning and positioning for strategic pursuits before the RFP is released.
- Coordinate with joint venture and teaming partners to establish consistent messaging, responsibilities, schedules, and deliverables.
- Conduct quality and compliance reviews to ensure proposals are responsive, accurate, compelling, and visually polished.
- Participate in client debriefs and capture lessons learned to continuously improve future pursuits.
- Maintain and enhance Myers' proposal resources, including resumes, project descriptions, boilerplate content, photography, graphics, and pursuit information.
- Mentor and provide direction to proposal coordinators and other marketing/proposal staff.
- Manage multiple concurrent pursuits while maintaining quality, responsiveness, and deadlines.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, English, Business, Construction Management, or a related field preferred. Equivalent relevant professional experience will be considered.
Experience
- 7+ years of professional proposal development, technical writing, marketing, or related experience, preferably within the construction, engineering, architecture, or infrastructure industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex proposals from RFP through final submission.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing contributors who are not direct reports.
- Strong experience writing and editing technical proposal content.
- Experience with Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, CM/GC, CMAR, or other alternative-delivery procurements strongly preferred.
- Experience with transportation infrastructure—including aviation, highways, bridges, transit, rail, or heavy civil construction—is highly desirable.
- Experience developing shortlist presentations and supporting interview teams preferred.
The seven-year threshold is consistent with the Proposal Manager benchmark you provided, which requires seven years of professional technical writing and proposal preparation experience as well as experience coordinating or supervising proposal personnel.
Knowledge, Skills + Abilities
- Exceptional technical and persuasive writing skills, with the ability to turn complex information into concise, compelling narratives.
- Strong understanding of proposal strategy, development, production, and quality-control processes.
- Ability to quickly interpret complex RFQs/RFPs and identify what matters most to the client.
- Ability to develop and communicate win themes, differentiators, benefits, and proof points throughout a proposal.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate people who are not direct reports.
- Exceptional organizational and project-management skills.
- Ability to confidently facilitate meetings involving executives, project managers, technical experts, and teaming partners.
- Strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple high-priority pursuits simultaneously.
- Ability to remain effective, organized, and solutions-focused under demanding deadlines.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe InDesign preferred.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, CRM systems, and proposal/content databases is a plus.
- Flexibility to work extended hours when required to meet major pursuit deadlines.
- Ability to travel as needed for pursuit meetings, strategy sessions, and interviews.
What Success Looks Like
A successful Proposal Manager at Myers does more than manage a deadline or assemble a document. This individual drives the pursuit forward —understanding what the client values, challenging the team to strengthen its response, identifying gaps early, extracting the best ideas from technical experts, and translating those ideas into a clear and compelling reason to select Myers. The Proposal Manager brings strategy, people, technical content, and presentation together into one cohesive pursuit and maintains ownership from kickoff through submission and interview. At Myers & Sons Construction, proposals are an extension of how we pursue and deliver work: collaboratively, strategically, and with a Project First mindset. Our pursuit teams compete for complex infrastructure projects where technical expertise, innovative thinking, alternative-delivery experience, and strong partnerships matter. The Proposal Manager will work directly with company leadership and some of the industry's leading contractors, designers, engineers, and specialty partners to pursue significant infrastructure projects throughout the West.
Benefits:
- Health Insurance (Medical/Dental/Vision) - our company covers 80% of the healthcare cost for our employees and their dependents. Employees are responsible for the remaining 20%, which is pre-taxable.
- Company provided vehicle or car allowance and fuel card.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)/Dependent Care FSA
- 401K with 8% Match
- Life insurance
- Voluntary insurance plans available - Accident/Critical Illness/Cancer/Hospital Indemnity/Life and AD&D
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Work in a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, support and mutual respect.
Myers & Sons Construction is a Heavy Civil Construction Company. We specialize in Bridge Construction, Bridge Restoration, Roadway Rehabilitation, Water/Wastewater Treatment Plants, Concrete Bridge Overlays, Concrete Paving and Alternative Delivery Projects, including Design Build, CMGC, CMAR and Progressive Design Build throughout California and Colorado. Myers & Sons Construction is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer regardless of race, color, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Proposal Coordinator
Align your credentials to PERM requirements
PERM requires your degree field to match the job duties. A Proposal Coordinator role often cites communications, English, or business as the qualifying field. Confirm your transcript reflects that alignment before your employer files the labor certification.
Target government contracting employers specifically
Defense contractors, federal IT firms, and professional services companies that pursue government bids employ large proposal teams and file PERM regularly. Searching for employers with active PERM filings in those sectors narrows your list to realistic sponsors.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Proposal Coordinator openings by employers with documented PERM and EB-2 or EB-3 filing history. That filters out roles where sponsorship is theoretically possible but unlikely to happen in practice.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting an offer
DOL certifies PERM only if your offered salary meets the prevailing wage for the role and location. Run the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating compensation so you know what threshold your employer must meet at filing.
Ask employers about their PERM timeline early
PERM labor certification takes six to twelve months before the I-140 petition even begins. Raise sponsorship timing during the offer stage, not after you've started, so you understand when permanent residency filing will realistically begin.
Distinguish EB-2 and EB-3 paths at the offer stage
If the job posting requires only a bachelor's degree, most employers will sponsor under EB-3. Candidates with a master's degree or substantial specialized experience may qualify for EB-2, which can shorten the priority date wait for some nationalities.
Green Card Proposal Coordinator: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Proposal Coordinator jobs typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Proposal Coordinator positions qualify under EB-3, which covers skilled workers and professionals with a bachelor's degree. Roles that require an advanced degree or involve complex technical writing for highly specialized industries may qualify under EB-2. The classification depends on how the employer drafts the PERM job description and the minimum education and experience requirements attached to the position.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency rather than a temporary status that must be renewed. There is no annual lottery at the EB-3 level, so your case isn't subject to the H-1B visa cap. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM, I-140, and adjustment of status or consular processing typically take two to four years combined, compared to an H-1B approval that can arrive within months.
Which industries are most likely to sponsor Proposal Coordinators for a green card?
Government contracting, defense, aerospace, federal IT services, and engineering consulting firms run large proposal operations and sponsor foreign workers through PERM with some regularity. These employers often have dedicated HR and immigration teams familiar with the PERM process. Smaller firms or companies that rarely bid on contracts tend to lack the infrastructure and willingness to manage a multi-year sponsorship process.
How can I find Proposal Coordinator jobs where employers will actually sponsor a green card?
Many job postings mention visa sponsorship without committing to a PERM-based green card. Migrate Mate filters roles by employers with verified PERM and employment-based green card filing history, so you can focus your applications on companies that have sponsored permanent residency for workers in similar roles rather than relying on sponsorship language in the posting alone.
What role does the PERM labor certification play in getting a green card as a Proposal Coordinator?
PERM is the first step in the employer-sponsored green card process. Your employer files an application with DOL demonstrating that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the position at the prevailing wage. DOL must certify that application before your employer can file the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. PERM certification typically takes six to twelve months under standard processing, and a denial restarts the process entirely.