Bid Writer (12 month FTC)

Opencast; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Opencast is seeking a Bid Writer to join the Bid Team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will develop high-quality responses that showcase our credentials and delivery experience for public-sector opportunities, while improving processes and reusable content across bids.

The role requires excellent written and verbal communication, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to coordinate multiple bids with tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bid-writing experience within a technology consultancy.
• Knowledge of technology consultancy services, delivery methods and technologies.
• Experience responding to government frameworks, including DOS or similar public sector opportunities.
• Experience developing storyboards and structured answer plans.
• Experience analysing evaluation criteria and improving bid responses.
• Ability to manage multiple bids and competing deadlines.
• Experience writing joint bid responses with partner organisations.
• Knowledge of digital transformation, user-centred design, agile delivery, cloud, data, AI, and software engineering services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A keen eye for detail and a strong commitment to quality.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities in parallel.
• Ability to articulate benefits and align them with client needs.
• Curiosity, willingness to learn and a naturally inquisitive approach.
• A problem-solving mindset and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• A collaborative, team-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Writing clear, persuasive, and compliant tender responses which articulate win themes, differentiators, and unique selling points.
• Supporting the development of bid storyboards and response structures.
• Ensuring responses address evaluation criteria and scoring requirements.
• Applying best-practice bid writing techniques to improve quality and competitiveness.
• Support bid reviews and incorporate feedback from reviewers and stakeholders.
• Maintaining bid content and reusable knowledge assets.

Skills

Bid writing

Tender responses

Public sector bids

Storyboards

Evaluation criteria

Multiple bids

Joint bid writing

Digital transformation

User-centred design

Agile delivery

Cloud

Data

AI

Software engineering services

Written communication

Verbal communication

Attention to detail

Time management

Organisational skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Job description

Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London

Commitment:

Permanent - Employee

Ready to turn curiosity into impact?

Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together? If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

The role

We’re looking for a Bid Writer to join the Opencast Bid Team on a 12 month fixed term contract. Working with colleagues across Opencast, you will be responsible for developing high-quality, compelling responses which showcases our credentials, expertise and delivery experience in response to client requirements. Opencast works across a range of public sector frameworks, so you will have the opportunity to work on bids of varying size and complexity. In addition to bid writing, you will also have an opportunity to get involved in continuous improvement activities, which will involve contributing to process improvements.

Requirements

Writing clear, persuasive, and compliant tender responses which articulate win themes, differentiators, and unique selling points

Supporting the development of bid storyboards and response structures.

Ensuring responses address evaluation criteria and scoring requirements.

Applying best-practice bid writing techniques to improve quality and competitiveness.

Support bid reviews and incorporate feedback from reviewers and stakeholders.

Maintaining bid content and reusable knowledge assets.

We’ll want you to demonstrate experience in bid writing, with strong time management, attention to detail and communication skills.. You don’t need to have had the job title of Bid Writer before, and we encourage applications from candidates that can demonstrate these core skills:

Bid-writing experience, ideally within a technology consultancy.

Knowledge of technology consultancy services, deliverymethods and technologies.

Experience responding to government frameworks, including DOS or similar public sector opportunities.

Experience working collaboratively toidentify win themes and differentiators.

Experience developing storyboards and structured answer plans.

Experienceanalysing evaluation criteria and improving bid responses.

Ability to manage multiple bids and competing deadlines.

The following would also be helpful:

Experience of writing joint bid responses with partner organisations

Knowledge of digital transformation, user-centred design, agile delivery, cloud, data, AI, and software engineering services

As well as bid management experience, there are essential core skills you’ll need to excel in this role:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

A keen eye for detail and a strong commitment to quality

Strongorganisational and time-management skills

Ability to coordinate multiple priorities in parallel

Ability to articulate benefits and align them with client needs

Curiosity, willingness to learn and a naturally inquisitive approach

A problem-solving mindset and willingness to challenge the status quo

A collaborative, team-focused approach

Interview

Your skills and experience will be explored at interview, where we’ll ask you to describe how you approach bid writing deliver successful proposals, and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in the first interview, we’ll invite you back to meet with colleagues that you will be working with outside of the bid team, which will give you an insight into the stakeholders that you would typically collaborate on bids with.

Salary range for this role: £50,000-£65,000

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work and your team

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

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