Senior Proposal and Pursuits Specialist

Our client, an award-winning Toronto architecture and interior design practice, is seeking a Senior Proposal and Pursuits Specialist to join their team. This is a permanent, full-time role, offering a base salary of $65-95k, or more, commensurate with experience, plus a competitive vacation and benefits package. While the core function of the role is to support proposals and pursuits, it is open to discussion to best fit an applicant’s experience, abilities and career goals.

We’re looking for a skilled, resourceful and thoughtful individual to play an integral role in supporting our continued growth and strengthening our presence in the market. Working closely with our leadership, architects and designers, you’ll help shape how we position the practice, pursue new opportunities and communicate the story and impact of our work. The role works across new business pursuits, proposals and media outreach, bringing together strong thinking, compelling storytelling and an understanding of what makes our firm distinctive.

About Us

Our studio specializes in the design of buildings and spaces for education in the broadest sense of the word — anywhere people gather to engage with culture, knowledge and ideas. Through a deliberate embrace of the overlooked and the underestimated, for us no space has been too minor to matter, and no task too complex to complete. We have delivered over 500 projects, both small and large: from single classrooms to entire campuses; laboratory benches to research towers; culinary schools to skilled trades facilities; student centres to youth hubs; and Indigenous teaching lodges to outdoor learning experiences, among others. Working with light, colour and sustainable materials in creative ways, our interventions are thoughtfully designed to better help students and teachers to achieve their goals, researchers and innovators to do amazing work, the curious young and old to explore new worlds or diverse communities to come together on common ground.

We provide full multidisciplinary design consulting services, integrating architecture, interior design, sustainable and accessible design with functional programming, spatial planning, user engagement, visual communication and environmental graphic design. Clients include communities, municipalities, school boards, colleges and universities, public agencies as well as private organizations. We particularly excel at helping during times of change that call for renewal and imaginative rethinking of what is possible, especially when budgets are tight and timelines even tighter. Our team of architects and designers approach every project asking, how can we make a meaningful difference?

Key Responsibilities

Working collaboratively with senior leadership, the specialist is responsible for:

• RFP/RFQ pursuits from start to finish;
• Written content for proposals, awards, and media outreach;
• Client, consultant, and collaborator relations;

While proposal development will be the primary focus of the role, the Specialist can also contribute to the firm’s broader communications:

• Press and media communications
• Website maintenance and social media engagement;
• Photography coordination and image database management

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualifications include:

• Degree in Architecture, Design, Communications, Writing or Journalism;
• Minimum 6 years of experience working in a design services or AEC environment;
• Creative and self-motivated individual with superior organizational skills;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Highly developed business acumen;
• Flexibility to work independently or as a team;
• Nimbleness and ability to balance multiple deadlines against competing priorities;
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud and MS Office;
• Advanced graphic skills are an asset