Proposal Content Editor and Curator

The Opportunity

Dillon Consulting is seeking a Proposal Content Editor and Curator to join our Business Development and Sales Office.  Reporting directly to the Proposal Support Manager, this position will be a key member of our Proposal Sales Team. 

At Dillon Consulting, we are an engineering, science and planning consulting firm dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for our clients. We rely on curated proposal content to streamline our proposal management process, ensuring our content is efficiently organized, up-to-date, and tailored to our clients' needs. We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Proposal Content Editor and Curator, playing a key role in maintaining and developing our proposal content reference library.

Working closely with our Proposal Specialists and Proposal Coordinators, you will be responsible for capturing and organizing content from past and current proposals, as well as creating new proposal content through collaboration with internal subject matter experts (SMEs). Your work will help ensure that our proposals effectively communicate our value to prospective clients.

We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life. At Dillon, we operate as one team. This position is available at any of Dillon’s offices in Canada.

If you are driven by reliability, achievement, continuous development and creativity then our values align and we highly encourage you to apply for this exciting role.

What your day may look like:

• Capture and file relevant content from past and current proposals for future reference
• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts to create and update high-quality proposal content
• Develop new proposal content that resonates with prospective clients in the professional services industry
• Ensure content is accurate, up-to-date, and aligns with the company’s branding and messaging
• Work closely with the proposal and business development teams to identify gaps in the content library
• Maintain a structured approach to content filing, ensuring ease of access and retrieval
• Stay informed about trends in proposal writing and client engagement to keep content fresh and competitive
• Review new content as it is proposed for the Proposal Content Reference Library, to confirm it meets Dillon quality and branding requirements
• Engage daily with our proposal management software system, as well as collaborating with our Proposal Specialists/Coordinators also operating within this system. (Note: Full training will be provided on our proposal management software system)

Learning & Development 

• Commit to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development.
• Contribute to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.

What you will need to succeed

• Post-secondary education in fine arts, communication, marketing or another related field
• Minimum three years’ experience working in a professional setting
• A knack for formatting, editing, layout and making written content sound like “one voice”

• Proven marketing, sales and/or proposal experience. Experience working at a professional services consulting firm considered an asset.
• Highly task oriented, organized and self-motivated
• Strong interpersonal, organization and time management skills with excellent attention to detail
• Coordinating/working with multi-disciplinary teams / Subject Matter Experts
• Superior written communication skills.
• Marketing related written content generation considered an asset
• Strong capabilities using Microsoft Office and MS Sharepoint environment
• Graphics experience considered an asset (i.e., Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Visio etc.)
• Experience using proposal management software platforms considered an asset

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our core values:

• Reliability: words that result in actions build trust;
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences

In addition, we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan
• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all full-time regular employees
• A competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Generous retirement savings plan
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions
• Flexible work hours 
• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs.  We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
• Learning and Development opportunities
• As a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization
• We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities
• Focus on Innovation
• The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees
• Wellness Subsidy
• Our employees can take advantage of wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes  and dance classes

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 20 offices and more than 1000 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 17 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences. 

Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business. Please connect with us if you require accommodation in the interview process. We would love to hear from you!