Senior Bid Writer At Education Development Trust

The Senior Bid Writer will be responsible for the leadership of high-quality bid production within the Business Development Team. This will be predominantly for high-value, strategic opportunities for our key current and new clients. They will work closely with bid managers and bid technical leads throughout the proposal cycle to ensure our solutions are communicated appropriately into proposals, and that proposals fully meet client requirements. They will ensure the quality of our bid writing and bid production is world-class. Alongside being responsible for the production of specific high-value opportunities, they will also support and mentor colleagues to drive up bid production standards for all opportunities. Alongside colleagues in Business Development, the Senior Bid Writer will be required to work closely with Regional Directors, delivery and Consultancy Teams, and other corporate services.

Job objectives:

1. Provide high-quality leadership of bid production for high-value, strategic opportunities, being responsible and accountable for high-quality bid submissions across our business areas – ensuring bids meet internal quality standards and score highly for clients.
2. Produce compelling content for proposals yourself, reflecting Education Development Trust’s brand and style, whilst ensuring client requirements are met, whilst quality assuring and improving the bid writing of others.
3. Work with technical and delivery colleagues to ensure we have captured education solutions that work at scale, following our intellectual property and service offerings, ready to be communicated into proposals.
4. Manage complex, international multi-disciplinary bid teams for the bid production phase
   of opportunities – including internal colleagues (e.g. consultants, delivery teams, business
   services) and external partners.
5. Provide leadership to drive up standards in bid production across business development,
   through revising Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs), developing training materials
   for bid writing, and coaching/mentoring where necessary.
6. Represent the Trust with external partners and where necessary, key clients, providing
   excellent Client Relationship Management (CRM) to support positioning in our key
   geographies.
7. Influence and contribute to our research, propositions and corporate knowledge
   management on international education issues.
8. Develop and maintain highly effective working relationships with key internal
   stakeholders, e.g. Regional Directors, delivery teams, Research and Consultancy
   colleagues, Business Service leads, etc.
9. Support general business improvement projects where required.