Volunteer Tender and Bid Writer

What will you be doing?

Role Description We are looking for a Tender & Bid Writer to produce professionally written proposal content that clearly articulates our organisation's value proposition. You will ideally come from a similar role, comfortable with the frameworks, portals and tender documents you will be tasked with successfully completing.   Duties and Responsibilities

Creation of high quality PQQ and bid documents, including writing and editing content (text and graphics) and document production according to Council tender Management of bid document production, including championing best practice in planning and organisation and ensuring compliance with business development process, style and brand guidance Responsible for the end to end process of Bid and Tender submissions to councils Managing tender emails, portals, and websites for upcoming tenders, identifying opportunities and future pipeline, registering interest and downloading the relevant documents Managing and coordinating bid and tender responses whilst collating and working with account managers and suppliers. To provide a winning bid or tender response Uploading tender documents and ensuring that bids and tenders are submitted on time with the correct information Maintaining and building our tender response library to efficiently complete bid and tender responses Evaluating and identifying areas for improvement from tender and bid feedback

What are we looking for?

Education, Skills and Experience

Knowledge and experience of bid writing in public and private sectors Ideally a knowledge of bid writing in public sector health or a similar background Strong attention to detail, with the ability to navigate tender documents and understand customer requirements Knowledge and familiarity with Proactis tender platform and government departments tender platforms. Able to work accurately and methodically to coordinate documents and meet deadlines An understanding and ability to manage critical deadlines and quality of work. Good IT skills with the ability to use all standard Microsoft office packages. Outlook, word, excel, etc Good multitasking, time management and flexibility to prioritise workload to meet deadlines Experience in sales, business development, customer relationship, marketing in an IT environment would be an advantage but not essential. Excellent verbal and written skills Adaptable to work independently or as part of a team Highly developed professional communication skills Demonstrable Graphics experience is strongly desirable

What difference will you make?

The volunteer's impact on the organisation is increasing income of the charity through bid writing to enable it carry out its projects in Africa and the UK. The volunteer will be able to allow the Directors time to concentrate on managing the organisation and reduce stress from the CEO by reducing his responsibilities. The organisation will be able to carry out its activities better with social media and marketing engagement with members, funders and stakeholders. This will increase the morale of the staff if they know that they have support from members to help them do their work. As for the impact on beneficiaries, this will be enormous. Our beneficiaries are people in Africa and UK with health and social care issues. We will be able to understand the issues people face specially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children. We will be able to improve health and well-being for people with myriad conditions such as diabetes, cancers, kidney failure, etc. Having a social media marketer enables us to showcase our work to members and better support to people in humanitarian emergencies facing wars, diseases and starvation such as in South Sudan, Cameroon, Nigeria and Central African Republic and members will be able to donate to the charity. We will be able to improve the welfare of the people in emergency situation. We will also be able to prevent maternal deaths and infant mortality which are high in Africa due to shortage of resources.