Senior Bid Writer
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- Full time
- Permanent
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Full Job Description
Senior Bid Writer.
Salary: 35,700 per annum.
Location: Glasgow, Hybrid working (with regular travel to our Glasgow office).
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Action for Children as a Senior Bid Writer, with responsibility for producing professionally written high scoring bid responses to meet defined quality standards.
Reporting to the Head of Business Development for Scotland, the successful candidate will predominantly be working on bids for the business in Scotland but will also work flexibly across the wider UK Business Development Team, as required.
The bids will be for a variety of service areas, and you will ensure that the written bid clearly articulates Action for Children's offer in a way that is compelling to provide a competitive advantage and is consistent with our brand and our passion to deliver service excellence.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
- Apply functional expertise to clearly articulate the quality of our service provision through written submissions.
- Work collaboratively and engagingly with internal colleagues to translate quality practice into conceptual model descriptors.
- Use a range of software packages to visually represent complex ideas in accessible ways.
- Work collaboratively and effectively with members of the Business Development team and Operational Colleagues.
- Interpret complex data to ensure the commissioners preference is evident in the written submission.
- Source business opportunities, including finding out about the service/sector for the written bid.
- Gather evidence to answer PQQ (Pre -Qualification Questionnaire) questions, including collecting data for bids.
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- High level written skills to translate and structure complex information in a simple, straight forward, and logical way to support high scoring bids.
- Demonstrates the ability to lead or support the development of bids that win new business.
- Ability to gather and manage intelligence to inform the development of bid win narratives.
- Experience of bid work; transferable experience will also be acceptable.
- High level of IT skills including ability to use graphic design programmes to support bid production.
- Demonstrates the ability to lead or support the development of bids that win new business.
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Want to know more about Action for Children?
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Closing Date: Tuesday 18th March 2025
Interviews will be week commencing 31st March 2025.
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