Description
Leidos is seeking a Project Staffing Rationale (PSR) Lead is assigned to Capture Operations and Excellence to support proposal efforts within the FEDSIM Center of Excellence (CoE). This role is critical in developing staffing strategies for large federal contracts, often valued between $100 million and over $1 billion.
As the PSR Lead, you will design and articulate a comprehensive staffing plan, ensuring alignment with technical solutions and customer requirements. You will collaborate closely with technical experts, pricing leads, Capture Managers, Proposal Managers, and other volume leads to craft a strong, data-driven staffing strategy that meets contract objectives.
Operating within an Agile framework, you will iteratively build proposal content through weekly planning sprints, leveraging early government insights from RFIs, market discussions, and past proposals. Additionally, you will incorporate industry feedback, lessons learned, and best practices to refine and strengthen staffing approaches.
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While this role allows for a heavily remote hybrid schedule, onsite presence in Reston, VA will be required during the Final TOR phase, working in the war room to support proposal completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of the Project Staffing Rationale, integrating insights from final TOR, technical plans, and solution architecture.
- Analyze government-furnished documents (RFIs, MADs, PWS, eRRs, RFPs) to construct compliant staffing plans tailored to each task area.
- Ensure staffing strategies align with technical solutions, fulfilling government requirements for roles, skills, and levels of effort.
- Apply Leidos CoE guidelines (SOPs) to maintain consistency and high-quality proposal content.
- Utilize Agile methodologies to iteratively refine content, developing a clear and complete staffing strategy.
- Support the creation of slides and visual content to enhance the staffing section.
- Mentor and train team members, guiding them in the development of staffing rationale.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in communications, technology, business, or a related field and 12+ years of relevant experience (or 16+ years of relevant experience without a degree).
- 10+ years of experience supporting government programs and technical solutions.
- 5+ years developing staffing plans, job descriptions, required skills/certifications, Level of Effort (LOE), and Basis of Estimates (BOE).
- 3+ years of proposal development experience, including planning, writing, reviewing, editing, and responding to GSA FEDSIM solicitations.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to solve problems and guide teams toward high-quality proposal content.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to work onsite during critical proposal phases (Final TOR release), including evenings and weekends if necessary.
- Ability to be onsite in Reston, VA for quarterly training and proposal support.
- Active Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Volume Lead experience on a winning FEDSIM proposal within the last five years.
- Experience writing or leading staffing proposals for FEDSIM contracts within the last five years.
- Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
Original Posting:
June 17, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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