Bid Writer
Skills
Bid PreparationBid ResponseBid WritingContent CreationProofreadingProposal WritingStoryboarding
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong demonstrable track record of writing content for winning bids with at least 18 months experience
- Experience working in a busy bid writing environment under pressure while managing multiple stakeholder needs
- Experience generating new ideas as part of a Bid Writing or Solution team
- Experience collating and consolidating research to support localisation and personalisation of proposals
- Experience working to both internal and external deadlines
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Creative writing qualification
- APMP Foundation Practitioner or Professional certification
- Experience in bid writing within employment skills contact centre justice or health/disability assessment sectors
- Excellent written communication skills with strong spelling and grammar
- Proactive energetic and able to manage a pressurised workload
- Embraces respect focuses on the customer takes responsibility and demonstrates compassion
Nice to have
- Creative
- Detail-oriented
- Proactive
- Energetic
- Compassionate
Day to day
- Write high-quality bid and proposal responses that clearly reflect solution discussions and commissioner requirements
- Lead storyboarding sessions and interview stakeholders to shape compelling response structures and ideas
- Research and gather case studies management information and supporting evidence to strengthen submissions
- Proofread bid materials and maintain content libraries to ensure accuracy consistency and up-to-date collateral
- Collaborate across teams to support deadlines lessons learnt and continuous improvement in bidding activity