Bid Coordinator - Expiring soon!
Posted 15/08/2024 by Seetec
We’ve a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Bid Coordinator to join our outstanding Bid Management Team to support our effective project management of our bids and the efficient coordination of our opportunity pipeline.
With this role, there’s also an opportunity to undertake a Bid and Proposal Co-ordinator apprenticeship to support and further enhance your career with us! Once you’ve successfully completed the apprenticeship, you’ll be eligible for membership of the Association of Bid and Proposal Management Professionals. Working closely with our senior team, you’ll assist new business through the full end to end proposal process. From initial interest and co-ordinating activities around pursuit of an opportunity, co-ordination of responses to pre-qualification questionnaires, you’ll monitor our bid plans and provide support throughout the process through to the final production and submission of our bid documents.
We’d love our successful candidate to have at least one year of previous experience in a business development or project management environment and an awareness of the national and political context in which Employability, Skills and Justice operates. You’ll understand public sector commissioning processes and the ability to interpret complex commissioner requirements.
We’ll need you to use your outstanding organisational skills, highly competent communications skills and your ability to multi-task multiple bids and projects whilst achieving competing deadlines and targets.
In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £30,000 to £35,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:
- 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
- 2 Volunteer Days
- Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
- Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
- Annual Salary Increase in line with national average
- Refer A Friend Scheme
- Free access to BenefitHub – an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and additional voluntary benefits
Interested? There’s an easy-to-apply route below to upload your CV! If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on (phone number removed).
Seetec Group is an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland, and internally within our 2,500-strong team. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.
Location: Remote - base location ideally Essex or the surrounding areas as travel to our Head Office in Hockley may be required on occasion.
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8:30 am to 5pm, Friday 8:30 am to 4:30pm
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 29th August 2024
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of bids through providing effective project management support.
- Work with our Bid Manager to create a compliance matrix for each bid.
- Support the development of the bid and other supplemental bid documents.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with our operational and corporate support services colleagues.
- Monitor commissioner portals.
- Maintain a centralised record of company information, historic bid submissions, case studies, references.
- Work with our Bid Writers to ensure that best practice responses are catalogued and are easily accessible to the wider Strategy and Growth team
- Monitor opportunity alerts, ensuring that opportunities that align with the growth strategy are reviewed and assessed in line with the opportunity pipeline process.
Skills & Experience
- Experience of bid coordination as part of a successful bid team, or experience of project support.
- Experience of using commissioner portals and of interpreting/understanding commissioner requests.
- Experience of, and confidence in, minuting complex meetings with senior internal stakeholders and circulating minutes and actions promptly.
- An understanding of public sector commissioning processes.
- Good commercial awareness, with an interest in developing this further.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to work at multiple levels within an organisation and to tailor communications effectively for stakeholders ranging from board level to front line staff.
- High level of initiative and motivation.
- Willingness to travel nationwide for internal and external meetings.
Seetec is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.
Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Seetec support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in any way. Our full policy statement of “Ex-Offenders” can be found on our website under “About us”.
Seetec is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- 30842
- Job ID:
- 222171844
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